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Let's say you're fed up of the state of screen recorders' paywalls and limitations and want to go on...

Here’s one way of a cloud-independent deployment of Rails, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, and Redis on single virtual server with Kamal.

Read this the next time you need to build a complicated form.

A few years ago I used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I’d think of a way to disagree. I’d push back hard if something didn’t fit my world-view. It’s like I had to be first with an opinion – as if being first meant something. But what it really meant…

In this post we are going to set up a custom domain in Netlify using Cloudflare. We will also install a self signed Cloudflare certificate on Netlify to ensure end-to-end encryption.

We are excited about some of the Active Record updates with Rails 7.1! Chris reviews some of the notable new features for working with Postgres including async queries, composite primary keys, native support for ctes, unlogged tables, and syntax normalization.

This article explains what rails app:update is, why you might not want to run rails app:update when upgrading Rails applications, and what you can try instead.

Rails performance audits and tuning have been my main occupation and source of income for over a year now. In this blog post, I'll share a few secrets of my trade. Read on if you want to learn how I approach optimizing an unknown codebase, what tools I use, and which fixes are usually most impactful. You can treat this post as a generalized roadmap for your DIY performance audit with multiple links to more in-depth resources.

Learn more about how we use GitHub to build GitHub, how we turned our guiding communications principles into prescriptive practices to manage our internal communications signal-to-noise ratio, and how you can contribute to the ongoing conversation.

In this article, I share tips for writing Rails ViewComponents, based on my experience building RailsNotes UI, and other projects. If you use ViewComponents in your Ruby on Rails apps, read this article!

This documents my methodology of taking an accepted talk proposal and building the slides and content around it.

Today, Postgres’ native full text search, which uses the tsvector type, has two main problems:

ActiveRecord PostgreSQL Partitioning. Contribute to rkrage/pg_party development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tailwind CSS has become a very popular CSS framework, and it can speed up development. But using it without proper caution can add mayhem to your code. Learn best practices to avoid getting swept away!

Some Do’s and Don’ts to keep in mind while coding in ruby on rails 1. Fat Model, Skinny Controller It is a commonly used phrase when talking about rails best practices.It basically means placing mo…

The use of feature flags for development and release process can provide multiple benefits that reduce risk related to new functionality or large releases.

Or how to retain the vanilla Rails feel beyond the early stages.

Turbo 8 is coming with smoother page updates and simpler broadcasts.

This week I will show you another Rack Attack trick.

We often think of shadows in CSS as something to reach for when we want to add depth to a design. But shadows can be used for more than depth. Let’s experiment with different shadows — two CSS properties and a filter — to make interesting hover effects, different text styles, and even casting shadows on other shadows.

Turns out the question of which identifier to use as a Primary Key is complicated -- we're going to dive into some of the complexity and inherent trade-offs, and figure things out

Learn how to scale large postgres tables in place and increase query performance.

Instead of leaning into heavy social sharing widgets, you can create a truly user-friendly social sharing component that works for everyone, using built-in APIs and progressive enhancement.

In this series of articles, we will share our experience with adding Packwerk to a large, fast-growing codebase.

Kyle Keesling is an Indianapolis-based Ruby on Rails developer. He enjoys coding, cargo bikes, and playing hurling.