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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.

Designing Web Components For Morphing and techniques to deal with reflecting attributes

The power of Rails with Turbo and Stimulus.

Rails partials have been around for years, but now strict locals have entered the scene to make things easier for us.

cache_key_with_version is a method used in Ruby on Rails to generate a cache key for a model object that includes its version number. This method is helpful for ensuring cache consistency, as it combines the object’s unique ID, updated timestamp, and a version number to create a unique cache key.

Explore the key differences between sprockets and propshafts in rail systems. Understand their functions, applications, and how they contribute to the efficiency of rail operations.

Explore semantic search with filters and learn how you can implement it with pgvector and JavaScript.

Embracing the digital experience

Embracing the digital experience

Upgrade Ruby using dual boot

Automate your next workflow.

Avoid mixing targetless controllers with those attached to a target.

The browser has some nice built-ins for building a microphone recording component, so you don't have to use third-party libraries!

Learn how to use container units and container queries to enhance an already flexible sidebar layout with some extra design control and full width breakout elements.

What is OpenID Connect?

Guidelines for Maintainable Tests

It's not always clear how to make the most of partials and helpers in Rails and know when to put what code where. Regardless of the methods, we all still...

In episode #95 we focused on parsing text and converting hashtags and mentions into links. Now let's add an @ mentions dropdown to any text field, so that you can select a user that you want to men...

You must have used concerns in Rails. Did you know you can also use concerns for your routes? They allow you to declare common routes to be reused in other resources and routes. This post covers the basics of routing concerns, including what they are, how they work, and when you might need them.

Paul Ramsey has some great examples of Postgres network analysis and graph theory in this sample code for playing the Kevin Bacon game. Both pgRouting and recursive CTE are used to solve graphing relationships.

Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and for just as long, they've consistently failed. Estimating even medium-sized projects is devilishly difficult, and estimating large projects is virtually impossible. Yet the industry keeps insisting that the method that hasn't worked for...

Premature returning from a controller action is a common idiom in Rails applications. I asked my followers in Twitter about whether they know or know how to do this correctly, and I am glad to see that most of them gave the correct answer. Let’s dive into the details.