Articles about Rubygems

Announcing AfipBill

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.

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Adding Docker to a Ruby gem

As a maintainer of a few Ruby gems, I have to decide what is accepted and what gets rejected into the gems. The other day someone submitted a pull request to add a Dockerfile to DatabaseCleaner

I thought it was a good idea, because the current version of DatabaseCleaner requires you to have Postgres, MySQL, Redis, and Mongo up and running before you run rake.

Here are the steps:

  1. Download the Docker Toolbox, a 176+ MB package.

  2. Install the package, which will expand to 400+ MB in your filesystem.

  3. In the terminal: docker-machine start default

  4. Then within your project: docker-compose up (before this I had to run eval "$(docker-machine env default)" because of this issue). Get ready to wait for a few minutes while it sets up your virtual machine.

  5. Finally: docker-compose run --rm gem

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