OmbuLabs Blog

Audit is a Rails application that allows users to check for vulnerabilities in their Gemfiles in an efficient and secure manner.

The tool has been around for a while, but now we decided to make the repository open source! You can find it here: https://github.com/fastruby/audit

At OmbuLabs we use Jekyll to generate our blog. If you are not familiar with it, here is a quick description from the Jekyll site:

“Jekyll is a simple, extendable, static site generator. You give it text written in your favorite markup language and it churns through layouts to create a static website. Throughout that process you can tweak how you want the site URLs to look, what data gets displayed in the layout, and more.”

Some time ago we wrote an article to explain how to implement Stripe Connect in a Rails application. That article covered mainly the connection part between Rails and Stripe. This one will cover the fun part, which is making transactions, charges, refunds, and more.

If you haven’t checked out the first part yet I recommend you do so since this article will continue from where that one ended.

In a recent project for OmbuLabs, we had to integrate Bitrix24 (the tool that the client was using to administrate their business) with the Rails application that we were building for a client.

The goal of this integration was to sync data between the Rails app and the Bitrix CRM. Basically we wanted to pull data from Bitrix every time there was a change (i.e. Lead was created/updated). We also wanted to sync the other way around, push changes to Bitrix every time something changed on the Rails side.

In a previous article we talked about one of the Rails Girls events that we sponsored and co-organized in 2018. Fast forward one year to our first event of 2019 at A3, a new coworking space located in Buenos Aires, we were once again sponsors and volunteers at another successful Rails Girls event.

In a recent project for OmbuLabs, we were looking for a payment solution that allows users of our platform to easily start accepting online payments while at the same time allowing us to collect a fee from each transaction they receive. That’s where Stripe Connect came into place.

If you’re looking for services that handle the delivery of your emails and SMSs in your app, SendGrid and Twilio are some of the most complete options out there.

In this article we are going to focus on a common scenario when using those services: How can we have a real time status of the emails and text messages that we send from our Rails app.

The internet is a wonderful place, but there will always be people that don’t have good intentions when they visit our websites. That’s why you need to be aware of the vulnerabilities that your application can have and how to avoid them. In this article I’ll cover two common security problems in Rails applications (I’ll probably make a second part since this is a very extensive topic).

Last month was the fifth edition of the Rails Girls Buenos Aires event, and the third time OmbuLabs participated as a sponsor and part of the coaching team. This time it took place in the impressive offices of Google Argentina where 25 participants attended. All of them were very excited and motivated to start learning new skills.

Monit is a powerful tool for monitoring processes on Unix systems and sometimes it can be very useful to receive notifications about a specific process from your server to your everyday tool, Slack. This article will show you exactly how to do that.

We all know the importance of having a CI tool integrated in your project. It allows you to run your entire test suite every time you want to merge a set of changes. If you have a core project and many projects that depend on it, you want to run the tests for the core project and the dependent projects at the same time. This article explains how you can do it with Circle CI.

If you live in Argentina and you ever use AFIP, you should already know that their platform is not the best in terms of user friendliness. We wanted to integrate OmbuShop with AFIP (using their API) in order to generate and print the bills for each seller. Unfortunately, there is no way to do this because the API doesn’t generate a printable version (PDF) of the bill.