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Following my previous post, Dry-web-roda part 1, I have decided to create my small website to keep track of all the things I learn throughout the day. Yes, I know, another Today I Learned Website 😓 - til_web, but this time I started with the persistence layer, and I wanted to share my experience with you.

Revised by Piotr Solnica and Andy Holland Lately, I have been playing around and contributing to the extraordinary ecosystem of dry-rb. The community is absolutely fantastic, supportive, and eager to welcome many new contributors.

It took me some time to figure out how to correctly set up every project I worked on, not that I work on tons of projects, but now that I have a better understanding of how it makes more sense.

This post will not be another post describing React and what is good or wrong about it; I’m just learning it, and part of the learning process I decided to write a blog post to help me maintain this new concept.

After a long vacation, I came with a lot of energy and new goals for the new year. So I’m going to start making things right. Being a developer can be challenging, and you have to continuously update your knowledge and keep practicing even outside office hours. Don’t get me wrong, I love coding, but there are days or weeks when I’m lazier than usual.

In the last couple of weeks, I have been working on a project of my own. I always love Command Line Tools; I don’t know what they have, but using them makes me feel more like a Hacker or someone that knows what he is doing.

This post continues our work in Improving our rake tasks with OOP. In this one, we will discuss how to test our rake task; the example will be very straightforward. We will invoke the rake task and expect that some classes receive the correct arguments.

I have been writing some rake tasks for downloading backups, accessing APIs, or automating tedious and repetitive work. Rake tasks are great, but dangerous at the same time. We add so much code to our rake tasks that they become a source of errors. Following the principles of OOP, we can clean our rake tasks, improving our code and making them much easier to test.

Lately, I have been working more with JavaScript. Initially, I wasn’t enthusiastic about working with JavaScript, but the project surprised me. For starters, it uses React and Redux for managing the state of the application.

Yesterday at work, we decided to improve our user experience in web mobile. We decided it was time to create a different view for each action. In Rails 4 there is this really cool feature called Variants