Imagine your Rails application needs to communicate with an external email service. To do this, it must first establish a secure connection, exchange credentials for an authentication token, and set up a connection pool. If every single controller action that sends an email performs this expensive set up by calling…
In the dynamic realm of software testing, Playwright has emerged as a robust and versatile automation framework. Developed and maintained by Microsoft, Playwright enables end-to-end testing for modern web applications across multiple browsers and platforms with a unified API. This blog provides a deep technical dive into Playwright’s capabilities, architecture,…
For Ruby developers, RSpec is more than just a testing framework; it’s a way to describe the behaviour of our applications with clarity and precision. Well-written tests not only ensure our code works as expected but also serve as living documentation. However, as test suites grow, they can become slow,…
Introduction Product management often lives in the space between ideas and execution. At Rently, we’ve learned that the faster we can turn ideas into something tangible, the better our conversations and decisions become. That’s why AI-powered no-code tools (such as V0) have been a great addition to our toolbox. The…
Problem Statement Before Change Data Capture (CDC), businesses relied on batch processing and full data replication to synchronizedatabases. These traditional methods required extracting and copying entire datasets at scheduled intervals, whichintroduced several inefficiencies: High Latency: Since batch processing occurred at predefined intervals, real-time updates were impossible,leading to outdated information. Unnecessary…
In the fast-moving world of software delivery, quality is no longer a gate at the end, it’s a mindset woven through every stage of development. With automation and AI taking center stage in Quality Engineering (QE), we’re in the middle of a major shift. But even as we celebrate speed…
With Rails 8 introducing Solid Queue as the default queuing backend for Active Job, this modern background processing system deserves a proper examination. In this post, I'll share what I've learned about this new job solution from Rails team, how it compares to other solutions like Sidekiq, and why…
