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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.

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.