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Discover why Ruby on Rails remains the go to framework for building MVPs quickly and efficiently, helping startups validate ideas and reach market faster.

The DBA’s Guide to Music Matching - pg_trgm and pgvector with 100K Spotify Albums - The Problem: Dirty Input vs...

A practical workflow for coding with AI on brownfield and greenfield Rails applications. Covers context generation, layered documentation, pattern synthesis, and maintaining code quality.

There’s a kind of polite fiction at the heart of the software industry. It goes something like this:

Creative ideas for speeding up queries in PostgreSQL

Use the new retry_on error argument to build intelligent retry strategies that respect rate limits, handle transient failures, and fail fast on unrecoverable errors.

Rails Generate Model: Beginner’s Guide to Database Models in Ruby on Rails for creating clean, scalable, and maintainable apps efficiently.

I’ve been working heavily with RabbitMQ message broker infrastructure recently to coordinate events between two Rails applications. The event work involves maintaining synchronized data between specific shared data. In the past, I’ve implemented a find_or_create_by style of idempotent backfilling required associations. Today I learned about a separate syntax via create_with for presetting record creation attributes.

Rails 8 eliminates Redis from the default stack. Learn how SolidQueue, SolidCache, and SolidCable replace Redis for job processing, caching, and real-time updates—powered entirely by PostgreSQL. Explore the true cost of Redis, how SolidQueue works, when it scales, and how to migrate from Sidekiq to a simpler, Redis-free Rails architecture.

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To skip validations for particular contexts, Rails added `except_on` option for validations and callbacks.

Here are the key rules from my AGENTS.md file that make plan mode effective.

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

We want to make Inertia.js more popular within the Rails community, so we've started a project to provide both Rails-specific community docs and a set of tools for simply integrating Inertia into Rails apps.

It’s here, the future of masonry layouts on the web!

We’ve been running product design sprints for over a decade. Now Claude and Claude Code are helping us prototype faster than ever—without sacrificing quality. Here’s how we built a working prototype in hours, not days.

My name is Taras Kloba, Chief Partner Architect at Microsoft. This blog captures my journey through data engineering, certifications, and technology insights.

Stop storing duplicate files. Learn how to detect identical uploads and reuse existing blobs to save storage costs and speed up uploads.

Skip the SaaS subscription. Rails 8.2's credentials system is all you need for feature flags - version controlled, environment-overridable, and free.

Set up a persistent HTTPS subdomain on your own domain for local Rails development. Perfect for testing webhooks, OAuth callbacks, and sharing work in progress.

Comparing token efficiency across 19 popular programming languages using RosettaCode data - from Clojure to C, there's a 2.6x difference.

Learn how to use Rails Action Cable without Redis! Follow along and build a Solid Cable application with real-time features.

My journey on how to build a side project and not quit until it pans out

Rails 8.2 adds Rails.app.creds to provide a unified API that checks environment variables first, then falls back to encrypted credentials.

Spoiler, the product wasn’t the problem. It was the customer experience. This is the mindset shift that will save you money, and keep your revenue recurring.