After a few months of expatriation in Tallinn in Estonia, here are some of my personal reasons, advantages and disadvantages of this choice … Tallinn: a capital, but on a human scale, around 430,000 inhabitants, a small and very cute historic center where bars, restaurants and nightlife are concentrated. Good…

Après quelques mois d’expatriation à Tallinn en Estonie, voici quelques une de mes raisons personnelles, des avantages et désavantages de ce choix… Tallinn : une capitale, mais à taille humaine, 430 000 habitants environ, un centre historique petit et très mignon où se concentrent les bars, les restaurants et la…

If you want your Rails application to be multi-lingual, you’ll surely have to translate your records. For example, let say you want your products names and descriptions to be available in different locales. Like everything in technology, there are lots of ways to achieve this. One well-known way in the…

Je me souviens bien de la découverte de Ruby et Rails avant les années 2010. …

A few weeks ago, I had the idea of creating a Google Map with a marker for each of my previous Airbnb trip. Simple and nice idea, right? As a developer, I thought that it would be great to just find a way to fetch the data of my…

As an active web developer I very often start small personal side-projects (which are rarely finished by the way, but that’s another issue :)… Some projects go totally inactive after some time but some of them are still online and attract a few visitors. And like many developers I sometime…

Horror! After years in the Ruby and Rails community to promote and educate these technologies, would I have turned around suddenly? It’s a little more complex than that… Since I discovered Ruby almost a decade ago, I have remained very attached to this language. Ruby on Rails is an exceptional…

Horreur ! Après des années dans la communauté Ruby et Rails à promouvoir et à instruire ces technologies, aurais-je retourné ma veste subitement ? C’est un peu plus complexe que cela… Depuis que j’ai découvert Ruby il y a maintenant près d’une dizaine d’années, je suis resté très attaché à…

Subjects covered in this article : binding Rails forms to custom objects, ActiveModel::Model, ActiveSupport delegate method, ActiveSupport constantize method, custom exceptions, the Rails session object, good practices… All Rails developers who already had to create “multi-steps” forms or a wizard know that it can be a painful feature to develop…