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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.

As Rails developers, we often focus on writing clean, efficient Ruby code. However, as the application grows optimizing database performance is equally crucial for creating responsive applications. One of the most powerful tools in our arsenal for database optimization is indexing. Here I will talk about PostgreSQL indexing from a Rails developer’s perspective. The query plan generated by EXPLAIN will help us to make informed decisions about index creation, ensuring our database queries run as efficiently as possible.

Performance issues in the PostgreSQL layer usually start to manifest only when your app reaches a certain scale. In this blog post, I'll discuss easy-to-miss database config tweaks and common problems that I've encountered in multiple Rails projects.

Let's look at a few readily available techniques and tools to gather and investigate issues in your Ruby or Rails app.

Migrating the Miru app from Sidekiq to SolidQueue eliminated the dependency on Redis, reducing costs by utilizing database for job storage.