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If you’re going to make a change to an area, you have to understand that area. If you don’t understand the area you’re changing very well, your lack of understanding might lead to you accidentally introducing a bug. Well-written code is loosely coupled from the other pieces of code it touches. “Loosely coupled” means that […]

After working on a Rails project for months, it’s not unusual to have hundreds of migration files in the db/migrate folder. Turns out, you…

Josh Clayton

The Ruby app server ecosystem has consolidated around three app servers: Unicorn, Puma, and Passenger 5.

A detailed look at the color-scheme property that allows developers to define which color chemes are defined in a website

Avoid text input to Active Record queries where you can

There's so many ways to render an ActionText attachment, we can change the...

Every once in a while I come across the question “Where should I put my POROs in Rails?” In order to answer this question, I would actually zoom out and ask a broader question: How should we organize our files in Rails in general? Rails’ organizational limits To some it might seem that this question […]

Let's take a look at RubyCritic and dig into RubyCritic's reports.

Validation is our go-to tool for de-risking a product. This article outlines why skipping validation introduces a risk to your business, the benefits of validation, and some tips for successfully leading those efforts.

The Ruby on Rails documentation defines polymorphic associations (PA) as: "A slightly more advanced...

Update: dozens of hiring managers confirmed this trimodal model applies to all global markets: from the US, through Asia to Latin America as well. Also see TechPays.com for data recorded for a growing number of countries in the three tiers. (Watch this article as video narrated by me, with

Basecamp has had one foot in the cloud for well over a decade, and HEY has been running there exclusively since it was launched two years ago. We've run extensively in both Amazon's cloud and Google's cloud. We've run on bare virtual machines, we've run on Kubernetes. We've seen all the cloud has to offer, and tried most of it. It's fi...

Checklist Design is a curated list of checklists ranging from website pages, to UI components, all the way to branding assets.

“One must imagine the senior engineer happy.”

Generators are a powerful feature you can use to automate routine tasks in Rails—but do you know how to make your own? This article explores Rails generators in depth, including how to build a generator from scratch.

This post utilizes a score of Array and Enumerable methods to model music notes.

Learn how to supercharge your ViewComponent-based code with various techniques that we use in our projects at Evil Martians.

Calling third-party APIs is associated with inherent complexity that’s not going to disappear. It needs to be tamed and confined.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) automates extracting text from visual assets such as PDFs and images. This tutorial teaches how to use Amazon Textract and AWS Lambda to build an OCR service.

Mentoring is a great way to boost your career. Here's everything you need to know about getting a mentor, and becoming one yourself.

After a previous post I was asked for some examples: what types of things do you take out of your Rails app, especially a new one, to make a new service? For general rules read that post. But for some specifics, this is the post.

Ruby on Rails is such a powerful framework. It has its own CLI of which harnesses what are known as "generators". These generators can quickly scale up resou...

The title is a little misleading but not entirely. Keep reading; it will make sense.

If you ever wondering about updating a rails model with large records(magnitude of millions) this is for you.