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To obtain good performance and low latency for any user accessing our site, we often use CDNs to serve our static assets. This article shows how to do the same for ActiveStorage attachments.

Exceptional Creatures is Honeybadger.io's documentation of Ruby's exception system, with a twist. Collect them all!

Efficient email courses tech stack: Ruby, Rails, SQLite, litestack, Avo, Tailwind, ERBs, Phlex, Minitest, Sitepress, Debug, Propshaft, Hotwire, direnv...

In this blog post, we'll explore steps you can take when you aren't going to upgrade Ruby on Rails right away but want to get ready for an upgrade.

Streamlining Database Backups with Kamal: A Guide to Efficient and Secure Data Management in Containerized Environments.

In this article, we will look at the different strategies that you can apply to improve the performance of the application while not focusing on where to apply these strategies.

Using a scale to find that vertical rhythm

The link_to helper in Rails creates an anchor element with the given URL and options. Although the helper has a simple task, it can be used in quite a few ways, and in this article, I will try to cover most of them. Let’s start with creating a simple link:

In Rails 7.1 .with query method makes it super easy to build and chain complex Common Table Expression CTE queries.

This is my personal site, where I write about Ruby, programming, and any of my varied fascinations.

Observability is becoming a standard. Cloud observability providers deliver a high-end solutions for the storage and visualization of the telemetry data. Yet, application owners may consider an entirely in-house approach. Here is how you can achieve it for a Ruby on Rails app.

Learn how to authorize requests at the routing layer to improve security and ergonomics.

Over-communicating is key, over-reacting is not. It’s important to find the balance on when to respond to messages and when to keep still.

Comprehensive guide to automating Ruby on Rails web app deployments using Kamal and GitHub Actions. Includes installation guide and sample GitHub Actions configuration.

Learn how Kamal simplifies web app deployment with features like zero downtime, incremental rollouts, and flexible configuration. Ideal for developers.

I am writing this for the senior engineer or tech lead that is deciding whether to use Hotwire or a Frontend framework (e.g. React, Vue, Svelte …) for the frontend portion of the next Rails project. If this is you, read on. The key factor You have already gone over the usual list of factors that you consider for every new project no matter what tech stack it is on: the expertise of your team members, technologies used on existing projects at your company, available libraries or ready solutions. These are table stakes, you’ve considered them like you always do and for this project, they’re not pointing either way. I will make a case that, once those fundamental questions are cleared, there is one that is specific to this decision and stands above all others: How is the complexity of the project distributed between shared state management and visual interactions? Most of the cost of software is in maintenance and most of the cost of maintenance comes from the complexity of our solution. Picking a tech stack that is well suited for managing the kind of complexity you are facing will make it easier to keep the complexity under control. The point will become clearer once we consider the two extremes.

Rails comes with default BigInt IDs for your primary keys since version 5.1 (replacing regular Int) and offers UUID v4 as an supported alternative since version 6. But what are the alternatives and what to use in your next app?

Work on Rails 8 is starting, so I dug through the official GitHub milestone to break down all the upcoming goodies for you. There's plenty coming, including Solid Queue, Solid Cache and Kamal becoming defaults, better support for PWAs, an official LSP, and more!

Rails 7.1 added a validate option for enums, which will allow developers to validate the passed enum values before saving it.

Exploring new ways of approaching CSS by querying custom properties and their values.

Originally published on my blog: https://bogr.dev/blog/react-testing-intro/ This article assumes a...

In the previous post, How to deploy Rails with Kamal and SSL certificate on any VPS, we saw how to deploy a simple Rails application with Kamal and Docker. But it was intentionally very simple and even if it might be enough for some applications like…

Work on Rails 8 is starting, so I dug through the official GitHub milestone to break down all the upcoming goodies for you. There's plenty coming, including Solid Queue, Solid Cache and Kamal becoming defaults, better support for PWAs, an official LSP, and more!

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Deploying an HA Postgres cluster using Zalando w/ K8s.