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In this article, Juan Diego covers the least known yet extremely useful APIs, such as the Page Visibility API, Web Sharing API, Broadcast Channel API and Internationalization API. Together we will see what they are, where we should use them, and how to use them.

Action View OverviewAfter reading this guide, you will know: What Action View is and how to use it with Rails. How best to use templates, partials, and layouts. How to use localized views.

Easily write fluent integration tests.

If you’re going to throw your app away because there are no customers, it doesn’t matter how solidly you build it.

I’d like to teach you how to use the gem with Ruby. Not Rails. Only plain Ruby and some ActiveRecord flavor that turns it more interesting.

How using this popular RSpec technique can sometimes do more harm than good.

What is Hotwired ATS? What are we building? Plus practical tips of using this book and a sermon on taking breaks and letting ideas percolate instead of copy/pasting at hyper speed.

One possible way of rendering a simple calendar control

An opinionated guide for small teams on setting up Heroku to deploy Rails applications—with pleasure.

Demystify the complexity of the Rails 7 asset pipeline and navigate its wide menu of options.

Import Maps is a new feature in Rails 7 that allows us to load third-party Javascript libraries in a default way. Find out different ways to use th...

Before discovering Ruby and Ruby on Rails I was a .NET developer. At that time I’d make ad-hoc changes to my development database, export my table/function/stored procedure/view definitions to text files and check them into source control with any code changes. Using diff functionality I’d compare the schema changes that the DBAs needed to apply to production and we’d script that out separately.

Delegated Types don’t work the way I thought they did

As I’ve previously mentioned, I’m building a brand-new business from scratch on top of Rails. Reversing key architectural decisions is like getting a bad tattoo lasered off—it takes time, it’s expensive, and your bad decision will never truly fade into oblivion. With that in mind, I’ve been overcautious in doing my research when putting new architectural patterns into place, which led me to a cool solve while researching solutions to my most recent problem.

This cheatsheet can help you get started with ruby/debug as well as use it in your daily development. It's not an exhausting list of its features or commands, so please go through its document as well. If you're migrating from byebug, I also recommen...

Browsers are constantly adding new HTML, JavaScript and CSS features. Here are some useful additions to working with forms that you might have missed…

While filling out a long form the other day, I couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t submitting. Turns out I’d forgotten to fill in a field, but I didn’t know that because it had scrolled out of the viewport. This is a common problem on the web, but easily remedied with a little bit of JavaScript.

Writing clean code is the key for maintainable and sustainable code. Here's some of my favorite tips I could give you after many years working on Rails and Ruby.

Data migration is a common part of working with databases, and Ruby on Rails developers have many...

If you've done development on a Ruby on Rails application before you're probably familiar with Active Record callbacks. For those unfamiliar, they are ORM object life-cycle hooks. They allow the developer to run custom code when an object is created,...

You'll learn some effective performance and optimization techniques that you can use to speed up your Rails app.

Building a form in Rails that ISN'T driven by an ActiveRecord model? Here's how to use the Attributes API to get all the convenience with none of the complexity.

In this article, we’ll find out what are Rails Service Objects and how you can use them to make your app cleaner and keep it maintainable.

Thoughts about front-end development and design. And probably other ramblings by Una Kravets.

Whenever we build simple or complex layouts using CSS Grid, we're usually positioning items with line numbers. Grid layouts contain grid lines that are