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GoodJob is a multithreaded, Postgres-based ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails.

If we want clients to create small controllers and use resources in their routes, it’s a good idea to know why. This is a refresher of Derek Prior’s advice from Railsconf 2017.

We’ve been running design sprints for over 10 years, it’s time for us to share everything we know about them in an updated guide.

Comparison of MRSK and Fly.io

Our top picks of the most practical product management frameworks for decision-making, prioritization, product metrics, and agile development

This article explores how to use markdown in Ruby. Learn how to use two popular Ruby libraries—Redcarpet and Kramdown—to parse markdown and create a simple documentation app using Redcarpet and Sinatra.

Being more transparent as a Staff+ engineer can help build trust and encourage best practice across entire engineering teams.

I’m Kitty Giraudel, a non-binary trans frontend developer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.

Common concerns and solutions... because tech is for anyone who cares about it.

A UI design case study to redesign an example user interface using logical rules or guidelines

Testing anti-patterns I learned to stay away from over the years.

You’ve probably been using callbacks. Don’t.

Introduction Views and Common Table Expression or CTE are two important concept in...

When writing an integration or system test in Rails, have you ever needed to click a link in an email? This is especially important for testing links with a unique token or that expire, such as password reset emails. Simply checking that the link exists is not sufficient, since the page it leads to is ephemeral.

The router is the entry point of your Rails application. It acts as the gatekeeper for all incoming HTTP requests, inspecting and sending them to a controller action; even filtering and rejecting them if necessary. In this article, we’ll do a deep dive into the Rails Router to understand it better.

How can you ensure that a modification on a component won't break the responsiveness on the user...

Confession: I’ve always struggled to understand the difference between stubbing and doubles…

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Today we take a look at a Stimulus implementation for nested forms in Ruby on Rails 7. It's a bit of a follow-up to the cocoon video we did the other day.Che...

A practical guide on how you can build a pure-CSS direction-aware hover effect for your navigation menu bar using :has() pseudo-class.🔗 LinksCodepen Demo: h...

Something non-designers understandably struggle with is how to make things look good. One of those things is long form content that’s well set and readable. Luckily, CSS makes this easy, you just have to know what to change. That’s exactly what we’re going to teach you in this article.

If you find yourself wrestling with CSS layout, it’s likely you’re making decisions for browsers they should be making themselves.

For years, developers have passed around a set of styles like a magic incantation. It's time we made it a web standard.

Fixing N+1 issues is often the lowest-hanging fruit in optimizing a Rails app performance. However, for non-trivial cases choosing a correct fix could be challenging. Incorrectly applied eager loading does not work or even worsens response times. In this blog post, I describe tools and techniques I use to simplify resolving N+1 issues.

Compare git rebase with the related git merge command and identify all of the potential opportunities to incorporate rebasing into the typical Git workflow