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A short post where I share how I migrated Visualizer from Sidekiq to Solid Queue now that the latter supports scheduling.

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This article was originally published at Rails Designer. Flash has been a feature of Rails since...

Exploring Turbo 8’s morphing page refreshes and refresh broadcast Turbo Stream actions in a Ruby on Rails application

Our nine month journey to horizontally shard Figma’s Postgres stack, and the key to unlocking (nearly) infinite scalability.

Posted on 19 September, 2020 at 00:00 UTC by Gentaro "hibariya" Terada

In the second and final part of our series, let's turn to another method used to make modals accessible in Rails: Turbo Streams.

Artificial intelligence hasn't replaced us yet, but how does it handle the boring parts of our jobs?

As I am always on the look out for useful mental models, protocols and habits to improve the quality of dialogue, I spotted this little…

Honeybadger recently added support for logging and event monitoring. It's one feature that I've been waiting for a while now, and I recently stumbled upon it randomly yesterday. This post shows how you can log events from your Rails apps to Honeybadger.

How we migrated to Solid Queue from Sidekiq

JavaScript is in the vogue now, but Ruby on Rails can become your startup’s secret competitive advantage.

Imagine that you have a classic has_many :through relation where you need to select several records out of thousands. Your form should be using an html select tag which would prove problematic if you had to select, say 5 records, out of 50.000 or mor...

Learn how to integrate a Kafka consumer into a Rails application

I upgraded a bunch of sites to Rails 7.1 recently and the ones deployed on Heroku started to show some massively increased memory usage: How could my app that was using ~128mb of memory be using four times as much with Rails 7.1? Well, its turns out that there was a change made to the default Puma config to make use of all available co...

Learn to use View Transitions in Ruby on Rails with Turbo Frames and Real-Time updates from Turbo Streams.

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

For many years Nginx has been a default solution to serve as a reverse proxy for Rails applications. However, with the release of Kamal, the Rails community opened Traefik as a new reverse proxy solution. Within my 15 years of experience with Rails, I created an almost perfect configuration for Nginx that migrated through all my projects. With Traefik, I had to start from scratch.

One of the goals of Pika, the happy blogging software that we recently launched, is to help you find your own place on the internet. Along with a nice place on the internet, when you share links to your blog we want them to represent your internet home, which you've likely taken a little time to make just so. Sharing your blog on social networks, text messages, Slack, or wherever should be an experience that makes you smile, and that's why we built custom social preview images for your blog. But how did we do it?

Or, a proposal on how to structure JS code for simple web apps.

This is the first post in the Campfire deep dive series where we explore the first ONCE product from 37signals to learn and extract useful patterns, ideas, and best practices. This post explores the direct method in the Rails Router that lets you define custom URL helpers for your application.

Outcomes are end goals you try to achieve (often referred to as “product impact”), whereas outputs are the means to achieve these outcomes.

A lovely little improvement to your life when upgrading Ruby

Authentication is almost part of every modern web application these days, even the not-so-useful apps...

Rails' Active Record library is full of methods you can use to streamline queries, reduce memory bloat, and avoid excessive database calls.