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RSpec provides tools that help you test the behavior of your Ruby objects. Join Abiodun Olowode for a tour of mocks, stubs, and spies—and learn how to use them in your Ruby projects!

We looked to better document our designs and project background in a useful and clear way to support a growing team. This article outlines that experience and what success we found using Figma to support DesignOps.

Join me, friend, as I fall all the way down the rabbit hole exploring all the ways you can implement an enumerated type in Rails, depending on your version of Rails, the capabilities of your database, and your requirements and tastes! Including some surprise functionality from Rails 7 that I didn't know existed!

Approaches for shipping code to production reliably, every time.

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C++, Dart — there are so many programming languages out there and you may even be totally fluent in several of them! But

A review of the ecosystem for adding hotkeys to your Stimulus controllers: stimulus-hotkeys, stimulus-use/useHotkeys, HotKey.js, and github/hotkey

A quick look into using advanced routing constraints with Ruby on Rails and how I used them to dynamically whitelist static page routes.

Learn the basics of Hotwire and how to use it in your Rails app.

How to build inclusion into your meetings

Product design principles that will improve usability for everyone.

Checkout Kata

The enumerable module is one of the most important modules in Ruby, it includes a wide range of methods that help us to interact with collections of data.

Effectively onboarding new developers to your team

Writing methods in RSpec lets us clean up our tests while improving their documentation value and isolation.

Building & scaling a Rails app built using Turbo/Hotwire, what did we learn?

This website aims to tackle some of the most important accessibility concerns that you'll need to address in a Rails apps. You can read more about the project here.

Container Queries, Scroll Snap, Object View Box, Scroll Timeline, and more! Check it out!

Practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces.

One of the oldest helpers in Rails is also the most underrated. dom_id shines for building apps with Hotwire, allowing you to easily target parts of the page without a bunch of nasty string interpolation.

Learn how to plug in to Rails' form builders to speed up application development and avoid duplication.

If you're finding performance bottlenecks with full-text search in your database, it may be time to switch to Elasticsearch. In this tutorial, Ianis introduces Elasticsearch and shows us how to implement an efficient search feature in Rails.

This article decomposes an interaction with an external dependency into its component parts.

Everything a leader needs to know about inheriting an engineering team

A guide to effective cross-functional collaboration

At 37signals, we use the Shape Up methodology and work in 6-week cycles. Here’s how we worked on HEY’s Bubble Up feature.