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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.

Learn about an unexpected limitation with this API and how to combat it universally.

I originally wrote this as a doc, and did a talk w/ slides in Fall 2020 at Convoy. This is very focused on how to work in a software engineering team (surprise! that’s most of what I know about!) but I’ve had friends say they’ve shown this to their partners,...

Chief Product and Technology Officer Michael Manapat on Notion’s evolving internal processes, product reviews, planning cadences, and increasing shift to synchronous communication

I'm generally a rather pedantic person and this is supercharged when it comes to managing the git history on my projects. I used GitHub's squash and merge for a while before Chris Moore taught me a few tricks. I'm not a fan of squash and merge because it squashes an entire Pull Request into a single commit, no matter how large it is. This means that rather large changes could live under a single commit. I believe the commit history should tell a linear story, as pretentious as that might...

Rails 7.1 adds ActiveRecord::Base::normalizes API to normalize attribute values to a common format before saving them to the database.

Use gateway classes to organize external API integrations and establish a clearer separation of concerns.

Thanks to the Open UI working community group, there’s a new element on the horizon, <selectmenu>, that will make styling this type of form control a whole lot better. You’re going to walk through an early implementation of this new experimental element by creating a pattern that you would never have thought possible with CSS alone — a radial selection menu.

How to design a queueing system to manage complex background jobs

An intro to Rails Engines are an architectural pattern that can be used to modularize or pack a Rails application. An article about this powerful feature in Rails.

If you want to add many attachments to a record using just a file field, but you don’t want to remove the previous images from the record on every update, like in the following code:

Hi, this week I want to tell you about an improvement coming in Rails 7.1. When you are using the link_to helper, it can infer the URL from the object you are passing to it as the second parameter:

This article is a deep dive into blocks, procs, and lambdas that will help you to understand how these functions differ from each other.

Creating recommendations with pgvector, ruby-openai, and the neighbor gem.

Discover the ins and outs of logging in Ruby, including how to customize your logs and use logging libraries like Lograge.

When discussing team organization, I am often asked: “Why don’t you have the tech lead manage the team?” My response is to hiss like a…

The contents of a <code>map</code> block should probably be an instance method on each item.