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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.

In simple terms, Query Object allows you to encapsulate complex database queries. Why do we need it...

HTML lists are boring. They don’t do much, so we don’t really think about them despite how widely used they are. And we’re still able to do the same things

There are lots of tutorials for building a CLI with Thor from scratch, but there aren't a lot of them on how to test Thor, especially covering scenarios such as required options. Learn how to test Thor Ruby options.

Nested HTML elements with different `visibility` properties (`visible` / `hidden`) can be visible even though their parent is hidden.

What is memoization? Memoization is a performance optimization technique. The idea with memoization is: “When a method invokes an expensive operation, don’t perform that operation each time the method is called. Instead, just invoke the expensive operation once, remember the answer, and use that answer from now on each time the method is called.” Below […]

Prompting for a username and password is so 2005. Today, you can just prompt for a fingerprint.

This path gives an overview of how the Shortcut team estimates work and how the Shortcut tool effectively supports that process. Let’s breakdown how we think about point scoring. Your team may do things a little bit differently but it’s a good best practice to have this outlined in a Doc so your team is on the same page. Feel free to use this as a jumping off place for that.

It’s time to get me up to speed with modern CSS. There’s so much new in CSS that I know too little about. To change that I’ve started #100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS. Why more or less modern CSS? Because some topics will be about cutting-edge features, while other stuff has been around for quite a while already, but I just have little to no experience with it.

What is good software consulting? Watching a staff level engineer is a great way to learn good habits.

Handling third-party webhooks with Rails Event Store Lately, one of our clients asked us to review his Rails Event Store-based application. We helped him, as RES mentoring is one of the key fields of our professional activity. What caught our attention was the way of handling incoming webhooks from third-party services.

Whether by choice or by circumstance, you may find yourself developing a web application alone. Congratulations! You've got the house to yourself and no one telling you what to do. But at the same time, there's no one to share the burden or make up for your shortcomings. How do you build well and ensure project success? We'll look at the pros and cons of working alone, what kinds of projects are well-suited to solo development, strategies for professional growth, and development and operational processes that will save you time and help you sleep better at night.

Adding site-wide configuration with a Rails model can be quite easy to do with Administrate.

More detail on how the thoughtbot team built one of the first Alexa skills in Arabic, and what we learned about using Ruby on Rails to support the development of Alexa Skills in the process.

Here’s the complete guide to customised form controls

This post was extracted and adapted from The Rails and Hotwire Codex. Turbo Streams are a great...

We break down 13 different types of MVPs with examples, discuss the pros and cons of each type, and suggest how to pick the right one for your business.