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Let's explore everything that Rails 8 has to offer.

Lessons from GitLab, Doist, PostHog, and more.

We've all been there: you're working on a website and need to display a row of logos—clients, partners, sponsors—you name it. However, logos come in all shapes and sizes, and making them look good together can be quite challenging. How do you get...

Kevin Andrews shares some useful snippets of markup with handy explainers to help you deliver more accessible components.

ActiveStorage’s DirectUpload feature allows files to be directly uploaded to your Cloud’s storage without touching your app’s server.

The Decide, Evolve, React pattern in Ruby, explained step by step

Ruby is a language that consistently evolves to make code more expressive, concise, and readable. With the release of Ruby 3.4, one of the exciting new features introduced is the use of it as a shortcut for the first parameter in a block. This enhancement aims to simplify code, especially in situations where blocks are used extensively, reducing the need to explicitly declare block parameters.

While we are waiting for the Rails World 2024 conference to start and Kamal 2 to be released, I decided to make some preparations for the upcoming changes in the Rails ecosystem.

A from-scratch breakdown of how Rails' Propshaft system serves up static assets automagically and quickly, with graphics and stories to boot!

Morphs, Presence and Typing Indicators

Explore an easy way to drag & drop images using Stimulus while using the Outlets API to preview the dropped image.

Radan here: this is another guest post by Miha. He was so excited about it that he interrupted my weekend with a brand new post to review. I still found it interesting, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! Back to Miha now.

A question as old as human civilization - when developing on a feature branch, should I rebase or should I merge changes to keep it in sync with the main branch?

The catalog of annotated code examples of all design patterns, written in Ruby.

Why we are excited about PostgreSQL 17 for our Rails applications.

An update to How to Build a Twitter Clone with Rails and Hotwire

How two lines of code made everything smooth

Junior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate

Over 2,700 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and workflows in their day to day development lives. From these responses we hope to get an understanding of where Rails stands as a framework in 2024.

Kamal 2 is coming with a brand new custom proxy that’s replacing Traefik. Let’s have a look at why is that and what it means.

Rails 8 will support Progressive Web Apps (PWA) out-of-the-box but you have all the tools you need to make your Rails app installable today.

Secure your Rails app with Action Policy and Rabarber for effective user roles and authorization. Simplify admin access and permissions

This article demonstrates a short-coming with using RSpec mocks in code which accesses objects out of a database.

In this post, you’ll learn a recipe that you can use to “shrink” a large table. This is a good fit when only a portion of the data is accessed, the big table has become unwieldy, and you don’t want a heavier solution like table partitioning.

A button is arguably the most likely component to find itself in your codebase so I’m going to show you how I approach building one.