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In this article is for newer developers looking to learn strategy and commands on Rails. When I...

An exploration of how a frontend developer thinks while building an article layout.

All the agility has been sucked out of agile projects

When working with complex forms, it's really easy to immediately start adding JavaScript to implement non-common behaviors. But there are some hidden gems in the HTML standard that allow us to do a lot of that without adding a single line of JavaScript!

So we checked 2 major ways already of creating public (more or less) static pages: 1. brute force drop your HTML into the app/assets/public 2. have custom actions in something like a PublicPagesController/StaticPagesController. Now I wanted to look at another approach. Originally, I saw this in David

Disclaimer: prepare for hair-splitting and nitpicking

The "current pattern" or "current context" is a technique that allows you to access some per-request data easily without having to explicitly pass it around everywhere. Recent versions of Rails offer explicit support for it. The current pattern, used judiciously, will help clean up your code and make your life swell!

A four-step guide to leveling up your team from the staff plus position.

Autonomy is a wonderful thing. Here’s how to relinquish control and empower your engineering teams to deliver more impact.

A comprehensive overview of Rails’ many safety features that can help you prevent painful mistakes.

Startups use too much technology. My advice: Use Postgres for everything

New Figma resource, a lightweight UI design starter kit to save you time.

Although Hotwire does not currently provide animations out of the box, it does give us hooks to add in our own.

In the last article, we made a pretty cool little slider (or "carousel" if that’s what you prefer) that rotates in a circular direction. This time we are

It's time for a standup! These are the words that always put me in total panic mode. I don't even...

While Rails gained a lot of popularity among companies to develop products quickly, technical debt and scalability issues were challenges that also gained space in this context. Let’s talk about some SRE fundamentals that can address those situations.

Sometimes you might want to enhance your application to notify users they might have lost their...

Time dependent tests are difficult to diagnose, and the symptoms don’t present themselves until it’s too late. This article will help you determine if your test suite is time dependent.

My experience of migrating from Paperclip to Active Storage on a production site.

Ruby provides a number of methods which make it very simple to read and write strings, arrays, shell commands etc.

Sometimes it's hard to know what is defined where

This week’s system design refresher: RPC vs. gRPC (Youtube video) Monolithic vs. Microservice Architecture What is k8s ChatGPT RPC vs. gRPC A remote procedure call (RPC) enables one machine to invoke some code on another machine as if it is a local function call from a user’s perspective.

A Ruby multithreaded crawler is a type of web crawler that is built using the Ruby programming...

We walk through how we implemented an SSE server that's scalable and load-balanced to simplify and improve a real-time data visualization application.

Learn how to build a robust authentication quickly in Rails without using a library like Devise.