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Learn how to use Basecamp’s MRSK to deploy Rails application to AWS with GitHub Actions

Handle dynamic nested forms, same as Cocoon, but using StimulusJS.

The MDN Web Docs site provides information about Open Web technologies including HTML, CSS, and APIs for both Web sites and progressive web apps.

Lambdas can make your code easier to use and more powerful. Discover how to use Lambda functions in Ruby.

Allowing developers to learn on the job can be difficult when the pressure is on, but research proves that a strong learning culture can help developers thrive.

Thor is a great way to write simple CLIs like one-off Rails scripts, but it does have its own gotchas. Here’s how to use Thor in practice.

An outdated way of thinking about peak performance is: “maximum effort = maximum results.” But research shows that it doesn’t actually work that way in reality. Here’s what actually works: The 85% rule, which counterintuitively suggests that to reach maximum output, you need to refrain from giving maximum effort. Operating at 100% effort all of the time will result in burnout and ultimately less-optimal results. While the precise number 85% may just be a rule of thumb, it’s a helpful one for managers who want to create high-performance teams without burning people out.

As Addy Osmani likes to say, JavaScript is your most expensive asset. Compared to an image or stylesheet, for example, a JavaScript file of the same size will take the same amount of time to download. The problem comes in the amount of processing after download that needs to occur before the JavaScript is fully execute

Our Journey to Kubernetes, With a Little Help from Porter

Hi there. I recently began relearning JavaScript, as it had been a year since I last did anything...

If you are debugging this error: LoadError: libmariadb.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - /rails/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.7.0/gems/mysql2-0.5.5/lib/mysql2/mysql2.so The fix is having these packages installed for production: default-mysql-client default-libmysqlclient-dev Here's a full

Optimism is our kryptonite but history is our saviour.

Introduction If you're a Rails developer, I bet you have already heard of or used devise....

DevOps is Bullshit. A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.

Getting started from a empty page can be tough. But there are some strategies for breaking the blank.

For us Rails developers, performance is an important topic. We'd like to maximise what Rails can do on our websites. So, it's best to consider how we can maximise the use of `select` over `pluck` as the advantage is tremendous.

This article is a high-level overview of design patterns that are commonly used in Ruby on Rails applications. I also mention the cons and pros.

As a neophyte of object oriented concepts and the Ruby language as a whole, I thought it would be useful to delve into my own journey of…

Explore the future of asset pipelines in Rails with Propshaft! Discover how this cutting-edge technology enhances the management and delivery of assets while simplifying your development workflow.

In the previous article, I said I believe splitting up the responsibility of building attributes from the actual rendering of HTML can open up many interesting possibilities. But the work to do so might not be that simple. I've been working on this o...

For businesses with 25 or more employees, pages load 1.4 times faster. After loading gusto.com for the first time, navigations in Gusto are 2 times faster. For smaller businesses, page loads are 1.2 times faster, and all navigations after the first are now 1.8 times faster.

Imagine that you are building a custom CMS. Within the form to edit an Article, you need to have two buttons: a normal “Save” button and a new “Save and publish” button. And maybe, additionally, you will need a third button to delete the article. ...

In the previous article, I mentioned that Action View has some component-like classes that render form elements. Let's deep dive into a simple one: Tags::TextField. This class is used in the FormBuilder like so (source): def text_field(object_name, m...

This week we will look into database transactions. First of all, let me try to explain what they are. A database transaction is a unit of work that encapsulates dependencies and is executed either completely or rolled back to the initial state. For instance, there is double-entry accounting, where you always have a credit and debit record for a transaction, so your accounts stay in balance, and you never want to end up in a situation where you record only one side of a transaction.