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In this article, I share a handy Stimulus controller for adding tabs to your Rails apps. I also show you a different variation of the controller, and how to add it to your views. Plus, I've included a handy tip to avoid the annoying "flashing in" effect that can happen if you're not careful.

Before you settle on basing design decisions on a handful of strict breakpoints, make sure you consider the vast fragmentation of screen sizes and browser viewports.

This week, I will show you how to make data imports blazing fast with Active Record.

Explore the four broad categories of CSS sizing units, how to apply them in your layouts, and how to choose the best ones in each scenario.

In many Rails based systems we can find models that should not be destroyed but should be tagged as...

Many moons ago, RSS was all the hype. With fewer publication engines like Medium, Substack, and other newsletter-style engines, most people would create thei...

Rails 7.1 adds the picture_tag helper method that renders the HTML picture tag for handling responsive images.

Rails 7.1 adds rename_enum, add_enum_value and rename_enum_value commands to DB migration extending support for PostgreSQL enums.

“Rails Magic” is one of the terms I have heard a lot. Rails indeed is a magical framework as it does a lot under the hood. Yet, it can feel “too magical” for a new Rails dev.

Optimizing Performance and Robustness with Locking, UUIDs, Fulltext Search, Database Views, and Geospatial Data

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Hotwire and Turbo are great for very quickly and easily adding real-time updating of webpages without requiring the browser to reload the whole page.

Development, Test and QA SMTP server for all of your email needs. Mailsnag lets you build resilient SMTP integrations while protecting you from spamming customers during testing.

We’ve released PGMQ, a packaged extension for message queues on Postgres.

Explore Rails Components for improved, aesthetic frontend in Ruby on Rails apps, offering shareable, encapsulated functionality like React Components

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Overview In this article, we are going to discuss the usage of database triggers in Ruby...

Rails Concerns are a great way to keep your code DRY by making it easy to share code across Modules and Classes. The post will be going through some of the in-and-outs of Concerns, why they’re useful and how to use them.

RicherText is a Rich Text Editor based on TipTap for Ruby on Rails - GitHub - afomera/richer_text: RicherText is a Rich Text Editor based on TipTap for Ruby on Rails

<div><img src="/assets/thumbnails/20230722-10-postgres-tips-for-beginners-3.jpg" alt="10 Postgres tips for beginners"/><div> <p>Getting started with PostgreSQL can be both exciting and challenging. It's more than just another database—it's a system packed with features that can change how you handle data. Every Friday, <a href="https://michristofides.com/">Michael</a> (<a href="https://www.pgmustard.com/">pgMustard</a>) and I discuss these features on our podcast, <a href="https://postgres.fm/">Postgres.FM</a> (there is also a video version on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/PostgresTV">YouTube</a>). We've been at it for 55 weeks straight since July 2022, and we're not stopping anytime soon. Our latest episode was all about helping newcomers to PostgreSQL. After seeing the huge response to <a href="https://twitter.com/samokhvalov/status/1679953049899642880">my tweet</a>, which got over 200k views, 1200+ likes, and 200+ retweets, I wanted to dig deeper and share more about these essential tips.</p> <p>Here are those 10 tips (+bonus) Michael and I have discussed... <a href="https://postgres.ai/blog/20230722-10-postgres-tips-for-beginners">continue reading »</a></p>

Learn JSON interactions including manipulating, querying, saving, and optimizing a simple object structure.

Explore some of the fundamentals of metaprogramming in Ruby.

Using variable fonts and color fonts with @font-face.

Inspired by a desire to understand why more engineers weren't using Ruby for their machine learning (ML) projects, I embarked on a journey to determine if I ...

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