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Learnings from setting up a cron job in Rails using Sidekiq.

How do text typing and editing work on the web? Although this process might seem straightforward, there is a lot of technical nuance behind its apparent simplicity. This article looks at how typing on the web works.

Blend the speed of <code>Rack::Test</code>-driven Integration Tests with the power and utility of <code>Capybara</code> finders and assertions.

Hotwire is the default front-end framework for new Ruby on Rails applications. Learn how to craft reactive single-page applications with Stimulus and Turbo.

In this article series, we build a reactive WYSIWYG editor for Markdown content using the brand new Alpha 2 release of `Ruby on Rails 7` and the `Hotwire` stack.

Fixer Upper. We all love it. Even if you hate it… you still kinda love it. If you are unfamiliar...

A Rails engine for queueing and managing maintenance tasks for data migrations and backfills. - GitHub - Shopify/maintenance_tasks: A Rails engine for queueing and managing maintenance tasks for da...

Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity. Learn how Shopify took its code base from monolith to modular monolith.

How my team redefined the way we store one of the polymorphic associations in the Shopify codebase. This post is the solution we wish we found when we were looking.

Ruby's flexibility has always been both its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. You can write amazingly expressive programs. You can also slip and break them in amazingly expressive ways. RBS is a new type annotation system in Ruby 3 that seeks to keep ruby's flexibility while protecting...

Reliable custom software development and consultancy. Dedicated software development teams. Ruby on Rails experts.

The Rails Guides give a great example of how to create nested forms. However, Rails does not support adding fields on the fly out of the box…

While creating mature components in Sketch and Figma both take a lot of upfront work, the way a designer interacts with the component differs based on design choices the app developers made about how components are constructed.…

Do you want to get up to speed with React as quickly as possible? I’ve put together a super helpful cheatsheet to give you a complete overview of all of the React concepts you need to know in 2022. Let’s get started! Table of Contents * React Elements

Markdownish syntax for generating flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, gantt charts and git graphs.

It’s not easy keeping up with all the new features the ECMAScript spec brings us every year. Let’s catch up with the highlights from ES11.

GitHub's new project experience is built with flexibility in mind. Here's how to get started with GitHub Issues and project planning.

It's an exciting time in web development. After a decade's worth of front-end progress kept demanding ever more complicated setups, we're finally moving in the opposite direction. With simpler tools that are still able to hit those high-fidelity user interface notes, but at a sliver of the cost in complexity. The long expansion of enab...

If you're like me then you probably take Devise for granted because you're too intimidated to roll your own authentication system. As…

Install jsbundling-rails Swap pack_tag for include_tag Import stimulus controllers Migrate JS...

Is there value in focusing time to reflect on our recent work?

Modals are a great use case for showing the power of Turbo frames and Hotwire. Here's an example of how we do it at Bearer.

Tips, tricks and tutorials on the web’s most beautiful language.

Inside Rails 7 apps, esbuild is wrapped into jsbundling. But what if you want to customize this build ?

S3 is an excellent way to store files scalably and reliably. This article by Jeff Morhous will show you how to use S3 to store files uploaded to a Rails app.