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It’s all about databases in this edition!

I develop a lot of webapps locally, often at the same time. For Ruby-only applications, puma-dev is by far the most convenient way to handle the situation. A single setup command gets you a lot out of the box:

Learn about dark patterns and ways of spotting them, no matter the type of the pattern apply. We will shed the light for you.

Hi, this is Greg, bringing you the first edition of the Rails Tricks newsletter. Thank you for subscribing! I hope you will learn a few things over time.

I started this iteration of my blog because I grew dissatisfied with Medium. Like anyone migrating from any one platform to another I requested an export of ...

a bliki entry for Slack

Speaking at conferences can be a daunting task, and I am not here to deny that. But beyond that daunting task lies a bunch of benefits. Through this post, I am trying to shed light on some of those benefits and how you can make the task of speaking at...

Learn Ruby on Rails with the bootcamp-style Learning Path from GoRails

As your document or response size increases , it can result in much slower response time, lets look into some practices to make it faster.

It's often that we create a service that is supposed to change an attribute on an ActiveRecord...

Refine is a paid package. To purchase, head to hammerstone.dev.

Did you know that you can create a single-file Rails application?

Although not the first option for many, polymorphic associations are perfect for connecting the same type of model to multiple other different models.

While setting up this blog with Jekyll, I went through quite a process to get everything configured so that I could host it on S3 with CloudFront. I wrote this article to document the process in hopes that it might help others (and maybe the next time I need to do this.)

Introduction On a cold and dark evening in December 2022, a good friend of mine calls me...

A staff developer is an individual contributor who can have the same scope of impact and seniority as an engineering manager.

Since 2017 we have been focusing on upgrading Ruby on Rails applications. It’s been quite a fulfilling learning process as we continuously improve our workflow best practices, and internal tooling. In this article I will go into detail to explain how we determine the best approach to create the roadmap...

Ahead of your parental leave, it's important to properly prepare your team and set them up for success.

Have you ever needed to get the most recent N posts for each user in rails, but didn’t know how to do it without using map? Or maybe something similar like:

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With so much advice being thrown at young women, it’s hard to know what to follow and what to ignore. Organizational psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and CEO of IfWeRanTheWord Cindy Gallop provide a list of popular suggestions that they believe are best neglected: Find a mentor. Instead, look for a champion, someone who has the agency to influence people at the top and will use it to help you. Women are constantly told to be less apologetic. But we need to worry less about editing women, and more about editing incompetent and inappropriate men. Ignore advice columns that tell you to gain more confidence. The problem isn’t women’s lack of confidence, but men’s oversupply of it. Men are rarely told to find work-life balance, so why should you be? Instead, find somewhere to work that will respect the balance you choose. Don’t “fake it till you make it.” Talk up your accomplishments, your intention, and your vision in a way that gets you recognized. “Just be yourself” is a trite piece of advice. Instead, find a psychologically safe workplace where you really can be. Finally, don’t ask for advice. Your intuition and gut instinct are far more valuable.

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

Design Sprints lend themselves nicelyto a virtual format, and digital tools can enhance this widely-used processdeveloped by Google Ventures.

The command pattern is a very popular design pattern that was introduced in the GoF design patterns...

With a folder, some scripts, and some tools, you can make your ruby gem/code faster. Measure, improve and repeat.