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This post explores where to access request headers by looking at the Rails source code after unexpectedly accessing the response headers.

When I'm starting a new Ruby on Rails project, these are few snippets that I find helpful

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

This post details a proof-of-concept for optimistic UI. If you want to just browse the source, check out the optimistic-ui-hotwire-rails GitHub repository.

If you want to try this at home, here's a GitHub link to a demo application that follows the blog post below. Each commit corresponds to a section in the post.

Sometimes you need a custom, semantic order for things, usually statuses, types. Oftentimes this is...

How to use Kamal to backup and restore your Postgres database

Efficiently manages database connections by promptly returning them to the pool after use, enabling immediate reuse rather than holding onto connections until the end of the request cycle.

By default, Rails adds comments to some attributes like `id` (`not null, primary key` for instance.) But now, I can add comments to my own attributes.

Cassidy's current "stack" of task-tracking, calendar, and note-taking apps

For a long time, I thought that using React with Rails was an “all-or-nothing” proposition. I’m now realizing that the two can be integrated on a spectrum.

Learn how to add the “Save and add another” feature in your Rails app

Got a Rails API that needs some love? Learn how to version your API endpoints so that you can introduce new features while maintaining backward compatibility!

A few months ago, Planet Argon kicked off a Rails 2.1 to Rails 3.0 / Ruby 1.8.7 to Ruby 1.9.3 upgrade for one of our clients. The monolithic Rails app contai...

If you’ve been following the changes in Turbo 8, it looks incredibly promising for improving the perception of speed and interactivity on our web apps. A lot of the Stimulus Tutorials could use an update since they were first written, so I thought it would be good to over existing tutorials and rethink them withContinue reading "Hotwire Tutorial: How Do I Drag and Drop Items in a List?"

Undoing an action, like archiving, deleting or even sending an email, is straightforward with Rails and Turbo. Let’s learn how to do it.

The Architects Choice

Ruby and Rails have several features to make your code more performant using async programming. Here’s a list of these tools and how to use them.

Unlock the potential of Rails with multi-database configurations, exploring setup for multiple database settings, whether horizontally or vertically.

Is your testing strategy too top-heavy? Here are some techniques to spread coverage down the testing pyramid.

Practical tips to optimize your web performance by using HTML and CSS instead of JavaScript for common tasks like state management, responsive design, and UI elements.

Modern Web Weekly #18 One area in which developers have always wanted to customize elements is forms. Historically, it has often been hard to style form controls to give them the look and feel you want. The styling options are often limited and to this day, form controls like date

SQL seems like a data science underdog compared to Python and R. However, it’s far from it. I’ll show you here how you can use it as a data scientist.

I've been toying around with Kamal for some time now, and I believe I have come up with a nice setup for a reasonably robust deployment. It includes two servers, one for the application and another for database and caching, a firewall to expose only the ports we need (e.

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