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 […]
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...
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.
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
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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.
