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Understanding the need behind a change is important to build better software. Here’s why.

Capybara is an acceptance test framework for web applications. Learn how to use it with Minitest for integration testing of your Ruby on Rails applications.

Rails developers can add versioning to their APIs with relatively little effort. This article explains why you need to add versions to your API and how.

There are several motivations for running your local web application over SSL; making use of service workers being a prime example. In this blog post we consider a number of different approaches for achieving this with a Rails application. We outline the key configuration changes required in each case, and discuss some of the drawbacks and benefits of each approach.

With Heroku's free tier gone, this is my work-in-progress configuration for a new ruby on rails apps...

Rails 7 series | Ruby 7.0 adds disable_joins for associations

A description of a curios core class design decision made for happier coding

Metaprogramming in Ruby: Beginner Level This post is the first in a series focused on the application of Ruby metaprogramming. If you’re just starting to learn about metaprogramming, this is a great place to get started. For those who already know the basics, stay tuned for future installments that will cover intermediate and advanced topics. …

You must have used a ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file to configure your environment. Did you know Ruby on Rails has a ~/.railsrc file that configures your Rails applications?

How, Why and When I TDD

Reading through Sandi Metz’s book Practical Object-Oritented Design in Ruby (POODR), I found myself yet again hit with several epiphanies…

Reacting to events with JavaScript is the foundation of a dynamic experiences on the web. Whether it's a click event or another typical action, responding

As makers, software engineers should adopt these 7 essential habits.

Sometimes want to skip certain validations on your database models. Maybe you have a multi-step wizard or want admins to have more freedom in changing data.

Learn how to integrate the FilePond upload library with Ruby on Rails' Active Storage framework.

From Rails 7.1 has_secure_password now includes a password_challenge accessor to validate it against the currently persisted password.

How to build a clear and transparent process for supporting engineering career progression.

A cheat sheet to help you write interview and follow ups questions for user research and usability test protocols (also available as .PDF)

Let's walk through how you can use GitHub Actions to test a Ruby gem, or any other Library, against an array of dependencies.

Deploy a new Rails APP to Lambda in 5 minutes!

If you ask any developer what is technical debt they will probably tell you something along the lines of: Cutting corners just to make things work. But there's another kind of debt that often goes unnoticed: just-in-case abstractions and features. These appear as a result of rationalizations such as "I might need this later" without a ...

Why this approach?

This post was extracted and adapted from The Rails and Hotwire Codex. It also assumes some...

I wanted to mix Hotwire (both Turbo and Stimulus) and View Components together but use it with my normal go-to tools like Devise and Sidekiq.

In Ruby on Rails, a polymorphic association allows a model to belong to more than one other model on a single association.