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  • NextJS, Tailwind, and Storybook logos liked together with a dark background
    Development | 18 Dec 2020

    Configure NextJS with Storybook and TailwindCSS

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

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  • Git | 01 Sep 2020

    The git-rebase option no-one knows that will shock your coworkers!

    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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  • Solidus | 27 Jul 2020

    SCA payments with Solidus Stripe gem

    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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  • What every reviewer would like to see in your next Pull Request
    Development | 05 Jun 2020

    What every reviewer would like to see in your next Pull Request

    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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  • Nebulab's Home Office Setups Showcase
    Work | 05 May 2020

    Nebulab's Home Office Setups Showcase

    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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  • The Transformative Nature of Ownership in Engineering Orgs
    Management | 30 Apr 2020

    The Transformative Nature of Ownership in Engineering Orgs

    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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  • Testing Ruby decorators with super_method
    Development | 08 Apr 2020

    Testing Ruby decorators with super_method

    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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  • Solidus | 25 Mar 2020

    5 No-Code eCommerce Management Tools

    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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  • Solidus | 20 Mar 2020

    A Guide to Solidus Events: Everyone's Invited!

    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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  • Development | 04 Feb 2020

    A Guide to Effective Pull Request Reviews

    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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  • Development | 21 Jan 2020

    Reverse Coverage: Find which tests execute which lines of code

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

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  • VueJS | 20 Sep 2019

    Build a Rails application with VueJS using JSX

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

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  • Development | 02 Aug 2019

    Rails testing tips for newcomers

    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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  • Development | 19 Jul 2019

    An introduction to mutation testing

    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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  • Development | 12 Jul 2019

    Improve your QA with GitHub Actions

    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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  • Development | 05 Jul 2019

    12 Factor Rails Settings

    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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  • Development | 26 Jun 2019

    A weird Capybara error in `within` block

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

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  • Development | 21 Jun 2019

    The Virtual DOM: enabling declarative thinking on the client-side

    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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  • Development | 12 Jun 2019

    A Rails middleware to change log level at runtime

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

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  • Development | 07 Jun 2019

    Boosting sales with browser cache!?!

    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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  • Create a fast NuxtJS website using Prismic
    Development | 10 May 2019

    Create a fast NuxtJS website using Prismic

    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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  • Development | 24 Apr 2019

    Your eCommerce Needs Authorization: Enter Solidus

    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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  • Development | 03 Apr 2019

    Preview your PRs with Docker

    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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  • Development | 20 Mar 2019

    Testing Ruby on Rails Migrations

    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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  • Development | 27 Feb 2019

    Action Cable vs AnyCable: fight!

    Introduction

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  • Development | 13 Feb 2019

    6 Design Principles for your HTTP APIs

    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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  • Development | 30 Jan 2019

    The strange case of ActiveRecord ConcurrentMigrationError

    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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  • Development | 21 Sep 2018

    How to switch a Solidus eCommerce to Multi-tenant

    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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  • Development | 20 Jul 2018

    Fully Scalable CSS Grid

    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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  • Development | 29 May 2018

    Why on Rails: Story of a former PHP developer

    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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  • Development | 23 Nov 2017

    Using ActiveSupport to deprecate gems code

    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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  • Development | 18 Sep 2017

    Help your Solidus customers with a chatbot

    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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  • Development | 02 Apr 2017

    AB(C) testing with Ruby on Rails

    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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  • Development | 10 Mar 2017

    Deploy Solidus to Heroku like a boss

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

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  • Development | 24 Feb 2017

    RSpec Basic: Using Test Doubles

    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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  • Development | 06 May 2016

    Integrate Solidus with external services using Cangaroo

    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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  • Development | 25 Mar 2016

    The birth of a Cangaroo

    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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  • Events | 08 Mar 2016

    The Soliton Hackathon

    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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  • Solidus | 29 Feb 2016

    Why Solidus?

    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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  • Development | 11 Feb 2016

    Neat - A semantic approach to Grid

    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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  • Development | 13 Mar 2015

    Authentication with Rails, JWT and ReactJS

    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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  • Development | 08 Sep 2014

    Installing Devise Invitable on Spree

    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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  • Development | 01 Jul 2014

    Using npm like Bundler

    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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  • Development | 04 Feb 2014

    Using Ember.js with Spree

    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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  • Development | 22 Jan 2014

    Our Ember.js Toolchain

    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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  • Development | 08 Jan 2014

    One Page Checkout with Spree

    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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  • Development | 14 Aug 2012

    Monitoring Unicorn with Monit

    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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  • Development | 13 Aug 2012

    Developing Spree extension with TDD

    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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  • Development | 03 Jul 2012

    Awesome MOTDs with Ubuntu

    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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  • Development | 26 Apr 2012

    ABC of SEO for Ruby on Rails developers

    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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  • Development | 03 Dec 2011

    Ruby performance showdown

    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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  • Development | 24 Nov 2011

    How to create a single patch from different git commit

    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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  • Development | 29 Sep 2011

    Maintenance Page with Apache and Capistrano

    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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