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When I joined my current company, the system tests for our Rails app used Selenium as the Capybara driver. I didn’t have good experiences with Selenium in the past, mostly it was tedious to have to keep chromedriver up-to-date with the auto-updating Chrome. In this project, I was frequently hitting maximum number of open file descriptors on my OS when running system tests, probably in combination with Spring. We’re using the Webdrivers gem, and we also needed to ignore its download URLs in VCR and WebMock. But my primary issue was that the system tests just seemed kind of slow in general.

Rails 7 series | Rails 7.1 adds ActiveJob.perform_all_later to enqueue multiple jobs at once.

Double the Brains, Double the Power! They say two heads are better than one, and it’s...

TL;DR Domain Driven Design, which was described in 2003, about the same time as TDD. And...

In part two of this series, we'll organize business logic in your Rails application using DCI.

Introduction When building applications normally we will use database to store the data....

What is MRSK?

In the fast-paced world we live in, working together is crucial for developing high-quality code. In...

The other night I had a bit of fun trying to create a single-input one-time-code: one-time-code is...

I've had this idea in the back of my head for a while that can potentially unlock a bunch of possibilities with Rails' Form Helpers. But to present it, I want to write about what you can do with them today, the limitations and what I want as a develo...

Almost everything done with Rails Generators happens using actions that streamline common tasks that would otherwise have to be performed with lower-level...

How much does it cost you to carry dead code? How do you find and remove zombie Ruby code? Use these 4 strategies to kill out all the dead code in your Ruby application.

This article is a quick summary easy to memorize, so you will never wonder again what this SOLID term is all about.

"vi" and "vb" are viewport units that consider the inline/block axis of the container block.

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Hotwire is a (relatively) new part of Ruby on Rails that allows your Rails frontend to update live and in realtime — in many cases, totally replacing a frontend framework like React or Vue.

It’s risky to expose your database to SQL Injections

At RailsConf 2023, we conducted an experiment: could attendees do the hard work for us by voting on RuboCop rules so we could publish Standard Rails plugin?

If you want to add images to a record but you don’t want to use a JavaScript plugin or write any custom JavaScript, you can use a regular file field, Active Storage, and vanilla Rails.

Ruby on Rails and ReactJS consulting company. We also build mobile applications using React Native

Get to know seven key best practices for Rails internationalization to organize your translation workflow better.

Is there anything more more long in the tooth than people arguing about standards? Yes - it’s people writing about people arguing about standards.

5 tips for new Rails developers to be more productive and confident.