Gaslight Blog
To build lasting impact with our clients, their end-users, and our community.
Sure, we love to geek out over technology and design. But it's all for a bigger purpose - boosting your business. Through development, design and business categories here on our blog - we break down our best practices, what to look for when it comes to software development, and how you can in fact, leverage technology.
12/01/20
Demystifying AWS S3 uploads in Ruby on Rails
Amazon Web Services include S3 (Simple Storage System) which Amazon describes as “an object storage service” that provides “scalability, availability, security and performance”. While there are many types of objects...
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11/19/20
Every Pixel Matters: Tips to use them most efficiently
When you’re programming, one of the most important things is the code you’re writing. Because our brains are limited and our code is mostly not, you’ll want to see as...
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11/12/20
Transform small tables with ActiveHash in Ruby on Rails
In a recent Ruby on Rails project, we needed to work with days of the week. We considered making a small table so we could fetch it, sort it, and...
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11/02/20
A simple trick to improve Rails performance and maintainability using enum
It is generally known that calls to the database are inherently slower than accessing a variable already in memory. You really do not want to create a bunch of small...
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10/30/20
Phoenix Liveview and Web Components
We’ve been using Phoenix LiveView on several projects now and it’s safe to say we are pretty sold on its benefits. It lets us use Elixir to write our front...
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10/27/20
Gaslight Dog's WFH Edition
Being as things are a little different nowadays we felt like it was time for an update on the Gaslight Dogs. Working from home means spending all day with your...
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