Harisankar P S | Ruby on Rails Developer

I recently cloned a repository and noticed it was 486MB.

At the company where I currently work, we run a multi-brand e-commerce platform with stores in around 60 countries per brand.

I’ve been using git for years, but to be honest, I wasn’t even aware of git worktree until I started using AI for development.

I haven’t thought about HTML in a long time, but recently came across the usage of picture tag(s).

Design patterns are only useful when they help solve real world problems in ways that feel natural in your language.

As I was working on easyclientlog.com, building its invoice system that allows freelancers/consultants to generates PDFs.

Managing context like the current user, store, client, or request ID across controllers, models, jobs, and services in a Rails app has always been a little messy.

I live in India, and getting a static IP at home isn’t straightforward.

Ruby’s Data class was introduced in Ruby 3.2, offering a convenient way to define value objects.

Ruby’s Object#tap is a small but powerful method that often goes unnoticed.

What I am suggesting is a method of optimization not just for PostgreSQL but for other similar databases as well.

I often see articles discussing Tailscale in multi-device setups, but I wanted to share my experience of using Tailscale primarily with a single machine.

PostgreSQL is a mature, open-source relational database that has been widely adopted by many companies over the years.

AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) is a powerful Amazon Web Service that allows you to deploy Docker containers on various infrastructure options, including EC2 instances, Fargate (serverless containers), or even self-hosted servers.

Over the past two years since I began using Tailscale, it has become an invaluable tool.

In Rails applications, ActionMailer is a powerful module used to send emails.

2024 Hacktoberfest has begun, and I decided to dive into some open-source contributions!

Docker is an efficient way to use command-line tools without needing to install them or their required libraries.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a service provided by Amazon for hosting our Docker/container images.

As someone who has been working with servers for over a decade and a half, I feel embarrassed to admit that I only recently stumbled upon this setting.

Recently I been trying to convince my team to write more tests, or some test.

Recently I have been working with deploying self hosted application in AWS lightsail for the company that I work for.

I am not going to reiterate the PSA (Public Safety Announcement) of how important it is to write test.

This article is about how to add https to a web app running in docker.

The slowest step (in my experience and opinion) is compiling assets (js/css).

Sidekiq is the gold standard when it comes to background processing.

Any program to execute on a machine needs to be in machine code (1s and 0s).

In this article we are sharing how to statically compile a crystal program and then share the executable inside a docker image.

Docker is a popular tool to containerize and share images.

Developing and deploying to the cloud has become a mandatory requirement than a nice to have skill.

Docker has become a popular tool in recent years for building and deploying applications in a portable and scalable way.

Docker engine has inbuild API service that allows you to control & modify your docker engine and docker instance using HTTP.

NFS - Network File System is a distributed file system protocol developed by Sun Systems.

PiHole is a DNS server that will block ads and website on a DNS level.

YAML stands for “YAML Ain’t Markup Language”.

Which Language Should I Build This Software In?

ESP 32 is a series of low-cost, low-power system on chip micro controllers with integrated Wi-FI and Bluetooth.

I am a developer who moved from Windows, to Linux, to macOS, to Linux.

Note: I am using Apartment gem to manage my multi schema database, and this article is written with expectation you know and use that gem.

Accessing the list of commands you have ran in your irb or rails console.

This tutorial or concept uses two softwares to make remote coding on your home machine possible.

When we create a new server in aws, it allows us to generate a key pair and attach it to the server.

htop/top is a useful command that helps users understand how much of there CPU (Different core)/RAM are being used.

Dark mode or night mode is becoming more and more popular these days.

Link to videos of my talks.

Projects Link to projects I worked on over the years.

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Rails model helps you define enum on a database integer field quite easily.