Hi there, I'm Catalin 👋

Director, Application Engineering @ Mon Ami based in Bucharest, Romania.
Aspiring 10% entrepreneur. Writing about my experiences as a software engineering and growing side projects.
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Latest blog posts

How to connect to multiple databases in Ruby on Rails 7

A deep dive into connecting to multiple databases with Ruby on Rails exploring multiple use-cases such as read-replicas and reading from legacy sources.

How to fix 'Too many open files' error in RSpec & Capybara?

I will walk you through installing Ruby on Rails for development on macOS 10.15 Catalina (and later).

How to Create the Initial Postgresql Database?

You just installed PostgreSQL and attempt to run psql and get the following error: FATAL: database 'user' does not exist. Here's how to fix it

Implicit Declaration of Function is Invalid in C99

I ran into this error when installing the thin Ruby Gem on MacOS and found the solution.