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Database Views & Rails Active Record: defining new Model classes out of views Learn...

Holly, a blind screenreader user, explains the main accessibility barriers she faces every day. Bad heading structure, alt-text, links, forms

Do you ever find it challenging to work on your project, side hustle, or even your hobby? Have you ever had those moments where nothing feels exciting? You lay in bed feeling - is it me, or is my work that boring? I have those days too. Some weeks I ...

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Lambdas are a powerful feature of the Ruby language. Learn all about Lambdas and how best to leverage them in your Ruby code.

Useful front-end tools for CSS and JavaScript developers that were most popular last year and will help you speed up your development workflow. Let’s dive in!

Rails 7.1 will include a Dockerfile to help ease production deployments

An example of refactoring a controller to use local variable and shorthand hash syntax

We unveil the toolbox of the Martian Rails engineer; we begin constructing a Gemfile from the universe of Martian gems that encapsulate our philosophy and soul.

In this post, we are going to show you tips and techniques on how to effectively store and index JSON data in PostgreSQL. Learn more about JSONB in Postgres.

What is Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), and why is it a concern for web security?

Once we include ActiveStorage::Streaming in a controller, we get access to the #send_blob_stream method which takes care of everything, from writing the headers to streaming the downloaded data chunks to the client to closing the stream after it is completed.

Mailers are used in literally every Rails application, but often an after thought where we throw out the rules of software design. Revisiting the tools provided by Action Mailer can help us improve how we write mailers.

I've always hated maintaining database servers. Litestream offers a simple alternative without sacrificing reliability or security.

Have you heard about the ActiveRecord becomes method from Rails? Maybe it’ll come handy one day.

The instrumentation API in ActiveSupport serves a dual purpose. You can use it to implement the publish-subscribe pattern, as well as benchmark how long it took to execute some action.

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Check out our downloadable Ruby on Rails Interview Questions Template, and learn how can you get the most honest responses from candidates.

Build and parse a programming language to extend your Rails application's functionality.

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