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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.

A command palette is a common feature for power users. Learn how to add a command palette to your Ruby on Rails app using the Ninja Keys web component.

Blocks are a fundamental concept in Ruby. Many common Ruby methods use blocks. Blocks are also an integral part of many domain-specific languages (DSLs) in libraries like RSpec, Factory Bot, and Rails itself. In this post we’ll discuss what a block is. Then we’ll take a look at four different native Ruby methods that take […]

The ViewComponent library from GitHub is becoming a popular answer to building design systems in server-rendered Rails applications. Let’s understand the basics by creating a fancy component button.

I wrote a small script to scrape a website to tell me when guitars were in stock.

A deep dive into my experience building my own design system that documents my process of defining tokens, creating efficient components, and shipping them as a package.

Web styling features of today and tomorrow, as seen at Google IO 2022, plus some extras.

What’s the value of a Staff+ community, and how can you get one off the ground?

Accelerating your team with regular, productive retrospectives

Using RSpec custom matchers to make clean ActionMailer mocks

On fighting the feeling of "blah".

Rubyists might take special pleasure here, but every SQL and PostgreSQL dev can learn this unorthodox approach: putting soft delete logic on the database side.

Migrate, refactor, and change critical Ruby production code with confidence using the Scientist gem.

Maybe you have heard about the counter cache feature. A counter cache makes finding the number of belonging objects more efficient by keeping a column with the count. Rails makes it easy to implement it, but is not free. Sometimes it may be better...