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.
Securing controller endpoints is an important aspect of most non-trivial web applications. For Rails applications there are a number of established libraries used for this purpose. In this article we compare two of the most popular options, Pundit and CanCanCan. By means of an example we compare how these different libraries integrate into a Rails project.
The challenge of keeping test code clean The hardest part of a programmer’s job isn’t usually figuring out super hard technical problems. The biggest challenge for most developers, in my experience, is to write code that can stand up over time without collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. Just as it’s challenging to […]
In this video, we're going to look at how to create a search form using Hotwire. Namely, we're going to filter the search results using Turbo Frames and we'l...
Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) can be a huge help to your team. Whether facilitating discussion or recording the Why, ADRs give you a way to understand and revisit team decisions.
A small Ruby gem to generate YouTube-like hashes from one or many numbers. Use hashids when you do not want to expose your database ids to the user. - GitHub - peterhellberg/hashids.rb: A small Rub...
The simple, fast, and scalable code generator that lives in your project. - GitHub - jondot/hygen: The simple, fast, and scalable code generator that lives in your project.
