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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!

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…