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Writing system tests can be sometimes tricky because we want to assert a reality that’s not yet rendered. Ad-hoc sleeping is something that can mostly address the problem, but it’s not the most elegant solution and should be avoided if possible.

Kevin Newton

My approach on how I keep my test fixtures manageable, sane, and obvious. Not hard and fast rules, but guidelines to help you implement the same in your app.

Exploring how to use FactoryBot effectively with models backed by plain Ruby objects.

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Strategies for identifying top engineering talent

A Ruby on Rails email naming convention for clear and easy communication of purpose

What is a successful design system made of? Learn about the four layers of a design system and the parts that make up each of these layers.

Building inclusivity and alignment in distributed teams

Form Objects are a great addition to the toolbox provided by Rails. Follow our step-by-step guide to start building better applications!

Leverage the power of the I/O table mindset to make your tests as maintainable and readable as possible.

Late last week, I was very delighted to see that Chromium will start prototyping with CSS Toggles, a proposal currently only in Editor’s Draft, authored by Tab Atkins and Miriam Suzanne (who else?!). CSS toggles are a mechanism for associating toggleable state with a DOM element. This state can be defined and connected to activations … Continue reading "The Future of CSS: CSS Toggles"

Using the Command Pattern to achieve slimmer controllers

A few years ago, Matt Swanson wrote a great post on setting up Rails CI on GitHub Actions. It quickly became my go-to reference for setting up CI for new apps.

What this feature is for The credentials feature is a way of storing secrets that you don’t want to keep in plaintext, like AWS credentials for example. (In fact, the one and only thing I keep in my main Rails project’s credentials are my Active Storage AWS credentials.) Why the credentials feature is difficult to […]

How can we create ranges out of custom objects?

At OmbuLabs, we have some projects where multiple teams work at the same time on different features or fixes. We started using Heroku's Review Apps because we kept running into blockers when a team needed to deploy a branch to our staging server but another team was using it. There...

A deep-dive into the CSS :has parent selector with some use-cases and examples.

Ruby on Rails ships with default error pages for more popular requests you might encounter including `404`, `500`, and `422`. Each request has an associated ...

Bullet Train introduces a new, slightly different expectation for Rails seed data: It should be possible to run rake db:seed multiple times without creating duplicate data.

Staying DRY while storing descriptions in a not-model-specific way

A new generation of note-taking tools helps us quickly organize thoughts as knowledge graphs

There haven’t been a lot of community structures or resources for Staff+ engineers. That’s changing.

RSpec’s block has two common syntaxes. Which should you use? Disclaimer: they both work. But I’m assuming since you’re here, you’re curious about the…

Feature flags are an effective method for developing and introducing large changes to an existing codebase without large interruptions to the engineering team. We have over 400 ERB files (views & partials) in our Rails app, and we re-wrote all of them over the course of 9 months using feature flags.