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When you're developing web applications, you might need to include the current date on which a particular operation is performed. For example, when submitting data via a form, you may want to include the date that data was created or when the form was submitted. In this article, we

Let's build a simple state machine in Ruby and use the state machines gem.

Did you know that Rails has a ~/.railsrc file? Similar to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file, you can...

Is mobile-first CSS always the best option? Patrick Clancey explores the pros and cons of the classic methodology, as well as when other solutions might work better.

In this post I describe how I switched our backend from ActionCable to AnyCable to for more scalable and better performing web sockets.

Large applications are often a mix of code your team has written and third-party applications your team needs to manage. These third-party applications could be things like AWS or Docker. In my team’s case, it’s Twilio TaskRouter. The configuration of these services may not change as often as your app code does, but when it does, the process is fraught with the potential for errors. This is because there is no way to write tests for the changes or easily roll them back–things we depend on as...

Your guide to becoming a better estimator

There's more to scrollbars than you might expect

Add sprinkles of Javascript behavior with Stimulus controllers that run a few lines of code and then remove themselves from the page. Like inlined jQuery snippets but for the modern times!

From hundreds of startup frameworks, we selected the most useful tools to help you knock it out of the park From hundreds of startup frameworks, we selected the most useful tools to help you knock it out of the park

CSS color-mix is an experimental function that blends two colors and can be used to simplify color palettes. You can define a color palette and theme without too much effort using CSS color-mix().

In this episode, we look at different authorization approaches from the most simple to more complex scenarios.

Ruby on Rails and ReactJS consulting company. We also build mobile applications using React Native

Rails 7.1 introduces a method authenticate_by, used with has_secure_password to prevent timing-based enumeration attacks.

How do you even save a “duration”, let alone query for records by that value? It’s actually easier than you think.

Over 2,600 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and workflows in their day to day development lives. From these responses we hope to get an understanding of where Rails stands as a framework in 2022.

Setting junior developers up for success

Turbo Hotwire is neat, I really like the simplicity of Turbo frames. But after having used CableReady the turbo streams feel a bit limiting. I was surprised, when I could not find any gem/package that enhances turbo streams to create custom turbo actions.

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Thankfully guard-rspec has been developed to allow us to integrate rspec with guard seamlessly and there are only a few steps required to get up and running on an existing rails app.

A playlist of our blog posts about development practices.

In this article, I will cover one of the interesting topics of JavaScript Debounce Function and share with you how you can use it to…

Rails 8 has not yet a release date at this time of writing. What kind of feature could be fun in the (future) Ruby-on-Rails 8 release ? Let's dream.

Do you need to process a lot of data in real time? Event streaming is a pattern that could help. David Sanchez walks us through how to do event streaming in Rails with Apache Kafka, the popular open-source event streaming platform.

CSS is constantly evolving, and some cool and useful properties either go completely unnoticed or are not talked about as much as others for some reason or another. In this article, we’ll cover a fraction of those CSS properties and selectors.