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Ruby-on-Rails has no built-in authentication mechanism. So let's pick the well-known gem Devise in this tutorial.

Have you ever thought that setting default values for attributes in Ruby on Rails could be a problem?

What's the size of user.rb file in your current project? The default Rails way model-view-controller architecture often leads to a bloated model layer. Presenter pattern is one of the more straightforward ways to slim down your Rails models. It also helps to reduce the logic in the view layer and makes testing easier. In this blog post, I'll describe how to implement a presenter pattern without including additional gem dependencies.

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A visual answer to the question “what data is created when I execute this test?”.

Is the end of the quarter of Tuesday, a week from now, a Sunday? There’s a method for that.

Rails is a powerful tool for a developer, you can do so much with just a few keystrokes in the...

Use Fastlane and continuous integration to automate building React Native apps.

Retriable is an simple DSL to retry failed code blocks with randomized exponential backoff. - GitHub - kamui/retriable: Retriable is an simple DSL to retry failed code blocks with randomized expone...

I created the timescale gem and wrote an introductory post on how using the timescale gem with ruby.

An interview with Zsolt Varga, the tech lead and general manager at Prerender

Pair programming is one of the most important tools we use while mentoring early talent in the Dev Degree program. It’s an agile software development technique where two people work together, either to share context, solve a problem, or learn from one another. Pairing builds technical and communication skills, encourages curiosity and creative problem-solving, and brings people closer together as teammates. In my role as a Technical Educator, I’m focused on setting new interns joining the Dev...

How to make a bot for Twitter? The purpose of this Twitter bot is to retweet all hashtags related to #ruby or #rails.

In just over an hour, I coded a TodoMVC App with modern (ES6+) vanilla JavaScript. The comparison to the previous JS TodoMVC from 6 years ago was shocking!

    Today I thought I'd run through a few of the powerful things that the ActiveModel::Serializer gem...

Using Ruby on Rails, Turbo Streams, and Stimulus to build server-rendered modal forms

Back in college, they told me that I would start my career writing code, but eventually, I would move to a position where I would ask others to code my designs. To celebrate that this turned out to be completely false, here are some assorted reflections as a 40-year-old programmer that looks back: • Compared to my younger versions, I f...

The Ultimate Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet & Code Snippets General ...

Building a web application is an exciting journey. This is even more so when users start signing up for your app in numbers. It doesn’t feel different from edging your opponents in competitive sports. After all, business is about competition, and nothing beats the thrill of success. Howeve

Rails 7.1 - in_batches implementation has improved to give optimized results for whole table iterations using range queries instead of IN query.

A collection of Ruby methods to deal with statutory and other holidays. You deserve a holiday! - GitHub - holidays/holidays: A collection of Ruby methods to deal with statutory and other holidays....

Want to deploy a Rails app with Docker and AWS, but not sure where to start? AWS Fargate simplifies the convoluted process of deploying Docker on Amazon's Elastic Container Service (ECS). It's also a good alternative to Heroku.

After fucking up my install of MySQL last year by trying to move from MariaDB to MySQL as I wanted to try JSON support out, I set out to find a better way of developing my Rails apps, instead of resorting to using something like Vagrant which would create separate VMs for each project.

Think that web form has got your number? If you used input type="number", you may be surprised to find that it doesn't.

There are many Ruby on Rails best practices that can help you avoid these common Rails programming mistakes. Read on to grow your skills!