It is likely to happen that there will be times when you will need to be able to take payment from your customer at a later time. Maybe you have a thing on back order, maybe you only charge when an item is shipped to your customer.

Ruby 2.0 introduced Module#prepend which allows us to insert a module before the class in the class ancestor hierarchy. Rails 5 deprecates alias_method_chain in favor of module prepend.

The Ruby language provides classes, modules, and a mix of both. In this post I want to dive into mixins in Ruby.

Taking payments with your web application used to be a difficult if not downright daunting process. With the integration with Stripe, taking payments from your Rails app has gotten a whole lot easier

N+1 is a common DB queries issue that slows down overall page load. This article demonstrates how to discover and fix it with more efficient DB query.