Development

In this article, we are going to show how you can create a NextJsproject with Storybook and TailwindCSS.

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A few weeks ago, a moment before pushing upstream a glorious bug-fix, I ran the test suite locally, just to discover that I broke it!

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Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is a relatively new securityrequirement that came in into force in Europe during September 2019.In order to comply with the law, a...

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Everyone keeps telling us to be gentle when reviewing Pull Requests, and that’s the right thing to do,but are we nice with who reviews ours?

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We really enjoyed this showcase of Basecamp’s home desk setups,and since our team is also 100% WFH these days, we thought we’d do something similar:

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During my career, I’ve had the honor of observing and being part of tens of engineering teams as aconsultant, IC and manager.

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Often we need to override a simple method which returns a data set, and most ofthe times you just need to add a couple of fields. In this blog post, I’m goingto sugges...

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As an eCommerce consulting firm, we know the value behind a custom store implementation: not goingwith a SaaS solution affords you maximum flexibility and endless inno...

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Event programming (also known as the pub/sub pattern) hasbeen gaining lot of traction in recent times, not without reason. Events allowto easily add custom behavior to...

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These days code is a collaborative matter. Good developers are expectedto both write great code and help others write code. Code reviews play a crucialpart in this: th...

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Have you ever wondered what tests cover a specific part of a project?

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Have you ever wondered how many ways there are to build a Ruby on Rails application with VueJS?

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Writing effective tests is tricky. When working withRuby on Rails, a good startingbook about this matter is“Testing Rails”, published byThoughtbot. In this article, I ...

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Test-driven development (TDD) is one of the most useful skills you’ll learn as a software developer since it allows you to add new features, refactor old code, as well...

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In this article, I’m going to show you how I’ve automated a small part of myclient’s project’s QA using GitHub Actions.

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Good apps are built following the The Twelve-Factor App principlesand we’ve been adhering to those for some time now; problem is: Ruby on Railsdoesn’t always follow th...

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At Nebulab we are encouraged in spending Fridays on opensource projects, and I simply love it.

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Despite some controversial opinions on React.js, aJavaScript library for building user interfaces, many will agree that certainunderlying concepts have changed the gam...

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Have you ever found the Rails logs too verbose in development?

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Recently one of our customers informed us that they were getting weird numbers fromFacebook and Google in regards to order purchase amounts on their Solidus basedeComm...

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Like all web developers, I love to experiment with new tools, libraries and frameworks.This time, for one of my side projects (my new portfolio), I decided to use Nuxt...

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Ensuring privacy of customer data is undoubtedly a matter of great importancefor any reputable retail business going online. Setting up an online presenceentails globa...

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When we work on a project, we like working with short-lived featurebranches in the form of small pull requests. PRs are great, but sometimes it canbe hard for other pe...

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100% code coverage, right? Yes, I know, you don’t merge code in master that isnot fully tested and all that stuff. Yet I’m almost sure there’s one thingthat you may be...

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Introduction

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There’s no debate around the fact that good API design is an art. When we stumble into a properlydesigned API, we can feel it. Just like good visual UIs, good APIs are...

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A few weeks ago, after deploying some new code to production I receiveda notification about a strange new-to-me error:

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In this blogpost I’ll show how to migrate a Solidus app from single tomulti-tenant. But what is multi-tenancy? Here I’ll give a little introductionon what multi-tenant...

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CSS Grid is a great feature! What I want to share here is a little tweak thatshould be used when working with grids and scalable contents. In a responsivecontext, a wa...

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In this article I want to share with you my first experience with Ruby on Rails,but before that, I think an introduction to the Ruby language and the relatedRuby on Ra...

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Often, when writing Ruby gems, there’s the common problem of changing thingsthat our project’s users could be using in their own code. When they willupdate our gem, th...

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I want to show you how to make a Ruby bot for Telegram that canhelp your customers use your Solidus store through Wit.

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I’d have never expected A/B testing would be so easy with Ruby on Rails. At thevery beginning I didn’t even have an idea on what A/B tests were but after alittle inves...

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In this tutorial we’ll show you how to deploy a Solidus eCommerce applicationto Heroku, the most famous cloud platform.

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In this blog post we’ll focus on differences between stubs, mocks and spiesin RSpec. We think that there’s a lot of wording confusion for those who startusing these te...

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In this article we’ll create a simple application to show how tointegrate and use Cangaroo to handle any external serviceintegration with your Solidus store. Our goal ...

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Before getting deeper into some technical Cangaroo guide I wanted to givesome more insights about how Cangaroo was born. This is the story that tellshow the death of a...

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In order to let the creativity to flow, we decided to organize an hackathoninvolving all the team.Nebulab believes in side projects, they help to form the junior membe...

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Spree or Solidus? Which OSS project Nebulab, as an agency involved inRuby on Rails eCommerce development, should invest on? This blog posttells the story about what’s ...

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As a result of a Responsive approach in Web Design and therefore tothe need to create adaptable layouts suitable from different devices, has becomeusual, I would say a...

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Here at Nebulab we love to hack with new exciting technologies, that’s why we dedicate20% of our work time for study and open source contribution. In this post we’ll c...

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Usually it’s easy to add a gem (not an extension) to Spree but sometimes thingscan get a little rough, devise_invitableis just like that, at first it might seem easy t...

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Coming from a Ruby and Rails background, we’ve always found very strange hownowadays most JavaScript libraries that require Node Packaged Modulesrecommend some depende...

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For some time we’ve been wondering what would it be like to integrate Ember.jswith a Spree Ecommerce application. In this post we’ll see how to create a simpleEmber.js...

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Now that we’ve been working with Ember.js for a while, we wanted to give a quick updateon what we found works out for us while working with it, both client and server ...

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The purpose of this post is to show one way to implement one page checkoutwith Spree. The goal here is to build a solution which is clean and elegant,especially taking...

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It’s been a while since we switched all our infrastructure from Apache2 + Passenger to Nginx + Unicorn and we’ve really been satisfied with such a choice.

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Here at Nebulab, we have just built an extension (Spree Subscriptions) that adds to Spree features needed to buy and manage subscription based items, ideal for magazin...

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As computer geeks, we all get a warm and fuzzy feeling when looking at ASCII art and well structured information and it seems that the Ubuntu Community loves us so much.

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This article focuses on best practices for optimizing a Ruby on Rails web application for search engines (SEO). It’s not meant to be a definitive or complete solution ...

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Ever since Ruby 1.9.3’s first stable release (October 31 2011), we started thinking Nebulab required some updates.To keep things lean and simple, we wanted to run some...

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We don’t like to write the same code multiple times. If you have to apply any changes to projects that share files (the files you are editing), you can use git to acco...

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Sometimes our apps have to remain offline for maintenance purposes, sometimes for a short time, sometimes for more than a while. In both cases it’s a good practice to ...

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