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Learn how to use the 'class_variants' gem to simplify your application's CSS and clean up your views

The website of Emily Samp, a software developer and community organizer.

Learn how to implement self-referential associations in Rails 8 for hierarchical data structures. Perfect for building nested relationships in your models.

Thoughts and learnings on writing better software

#25 System Design Interview - Design TinyURL

This article explains why you shouldn't log confidential or user-identifiable information and how to filter it using parameter filtering in Rails. We'll also do a deep dive into the Rails source code to learn exactly how Rails implements parameter filters.

Olly Headey. CTO and advisor. Co-founder of FreeAgent. 37signals alumni.

Learn how to deploy Rails 8 apps using Docker, Kamal, and PostgreSQL on Hetzner servers with Cloudflare DNS. A complete production setup guide.

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Where you get to play with an interactive demo to visualize how Enumerator::Lazy helps avoid unnecessary work

Some tips on making sure forms written in Ruby on Rails are accessible

Learn how to implement soft deletion with robust audit logging in Rails applications, ensuring data integrity and compliance in financial systems.

Discover how small businesses can leverage affordable automation solutions to boost efficiency, reduce costs, and compete effectively. Learn practical tips for implementing automation tools and maximizing ROI

2024 was an amazing year for the Rails community and I’d like to share a summary of what changed in the framework. As a TLDR, there were more than 4000 commits from 562 contributors and 55 releases, including Rails 8!

Searching for the most flexible front-end workflows and toolkits, it’s easy to forget how powerful some of the fundamentals on the web have become these days. This post is a journey through new front-end features and what they are capable of.

TIL: `rails credentials:diff --enroll` (and `--disenroll`) Makes local diffs of encrypted credentials files display as diffs of the un-encrypted text instead of diffs of the encrypted gibberish. Helps reduce friction of seeing what changed in credentials when merging or navigating merge conflicts.

Mission Control is a powerful tool for monitoring and managing your Rails jobs in real-time. It offers insights into your app’s performance and errors. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to integrate Mission Control into your Rails app and secure it with Basic Auth.

Part 2 of a multi-part series for moving away from devise to Rails' authentication generator

Part 1 of a multi-part series for moving away from devise to Rails' authentication generator

ActionMailbox has the most underrated fun-to-feature ratio. No suprise here then, that as soon as I had the chance to work with it on Laterbox, I jumped on the occasion.

There's abundant online guidance about refactoring controllers, but resources on model refactoring are less common. In this blog, we'll explore techniques for effectively refactoring models.

If you've worked with Rails forms, you've likely encountered the infamous `.field_with_errors wrapper`. While it's designed to help highlight inval...

Discover how to seamlessly transition from encrypted secrets to Rails 8.0's powerful credentials system.

Scoping an Active Record join

In this article, the author starts a series about Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) in Rails