Julián Pinzón Eslava

• Year in Review - 2024

  Inspired by Tim Riley’s year in review, I wanted to reflect a bit on what I did this year. It’s not going to be as impressive as his but I’m hoping it’ll serve as a way to push me forward into 2025...

• Customising Single Table Inheritance mapping in Active Record

  A few weeks ago I was working on modelling set of relationships between very similar concepts so I evaluated the different alternatives that Active Records provides for this; Abstract classes, Sing...

• Discovering Turbo 8 Refreshes In Ruby On Rails

  I’m working on a personal project in which I’m trying to squeeze every ounce of features from Turbo and in doing so I found something that I thought was a bug. When going from a simple page that u...

• So Long Youtube Shorts

  Is that time of the year where I commit to being better, to be more present, to do more, to procrastinate less… you know… the whole New Year deal. One thing I want more of is more control over my ...

• The Attribute Builders Gem And Playground

  In my last article, I published about the birth of AttributeBuidlers and since then I’ve worked some more on the project and decided that it was time to get it out there – even in its unfinished an...

• The Potential Birth Of Attribute Builders

  In the previous article, I said I believe splitting up the responsibility of building attributes from the actual rendering of HTML can open up many interesting possibilities. But the work to do so ...

• Deep Dive Action View Form Helpers

  In the previous article, I mentioned that Action View has some component-like classes that render form elements. Let’s deep dive into a simple one: Tags::TextField. This class is used in the FormB...

• Unlocking The Power Of Forms In Rails

  I’ve had this idea in the back of my head for a while that can potentially unlock a bunch of possibilities with Rails’ Form Helpers. But to present it, I want to write about what you can do with th...

• Advanced Layout Rendering In Rails

  To finish this series we’ll finally tackle this part of the car-sharing app we’ve been creating in this Action View Layouts series. To recap, in part 2 I described my process to uncover what the...

• Layout Rendering In Rails Part 2 Implicit Per Controller Layouts

  In the first part of this series, we learnt how implicit rendering works to separate authenticated vs unauthenticated sections of an app. In this second part, we will learn how to use this techniqu...

• Implicit Layout Rendering In Rails

  I love car-sharing services. It has allowed me to live car-free for the past three and a half years cutting down on maintenance, taxes, stress … you name it. I can also book small cars for short ri...