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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...

We present proven ways to scale Ruby on Rails applications. Find out how to prepare your app's architecture to meet user demand and set it up for success.

Justin Mitchel provides a step-by-step IaC guide for Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Salt.

Fly.io: the Reclaimer of Heroku's Magic - Xe's Blog

Read about the advantages of using Docker and learn how to build and dockerize a Ruby on Rails application that uses PostgreSQL, Redis and Sidekiq.

When is it best to reach for query objects and how can we best structure them?

A quick guide to the 4-step process of loading a custom font file into your Rails application.

Search analytics made easy. Contribute to ankane/searchjoy development by creating an account on GitHub.

Have you ever wanted to accept payments in Rails? With Stripe Checkout, it's never been easier. Jeffrey Morhous shows us how.

An overview of time zones in Rails.

Developers often reach for UI frameworks like Bootstrap or Material UI, hoping that they’ll save a bunch of time and quickly build a professional-looking app. Unfortunately, things rarely work out this way. Let’s talk about it.

There are some changes being proposed regarding viewport units, finally solving that "100vh in Safari on iOS" issue …

In the model-view-controller pattern that Rails is built on, it’s pretty clear what views and controllers are, but models are a little less clear. In my 10 years with Rails I’ve had the opportunity to come across a number of different conceptions regarding what models are. These conceptions often overlap but often don’t share the […]