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Nithin Bekal's blog about programming - Ruby, Rails, Vim, Elixir.

Feature flags (or feature toggles) are a neat way to hide in-progress features from your users. For those who need a simple on-and-off system, here's a minimal feature flag manager that'll take less than an hour to build, using plain Ruby objects, the Rails configuration, and some neat variables organization.

Rails system tests often depend on input and CSS selectors. To make our tests more maintainable, we can isolate layout changes within page objects.

The Result-Error Pattern helps you hide try-catch blocks, simplify error handling, and encapsulate cleanup operations.

With 2021 coming to an end, let's take a look at which CSS language features we can expect to land in browsers in 2022.

The Ruby splat operator is confusing and here is why…

Turbolinks is no longer being developed. It's been superceeded by Turbo, which is part of Hotwire. In this article, Julio Sampaio shows us how to port our existing Turbolinks apps to Turbo.

Turbo can largely simplify our front-end needs to achieve a single-page application feel. If you have ever wondered how to do a single attribute in-place update with Turbo, this post is for you.

Top 3 design patterns used to create React.JS components that you should know about

The best designers employ specific habits, learned practices, and observed principles when they work. Here are a few of them.

These tips can help save time and money while getting the most value from GitHub Actions.

Matz is nice and so we are nice.  — Ruby Community Motto

Let's discover the differences and similarities between Sorbet and the recently released RBS through some practical examples.

In this part of the series on Rails patterns and anti-patterns, we are going to analyze the final part of the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern — the Controller.

Thoughts and learnings on writing better software

A blog about Ruby, Rails, Software, the Universe and Everything

Erin shared his first-hand experience of participating in Ruby for Good.

Tidy routes are happy routes

If you came across this article, you either have heard of Action Cable before or you are looking to dive in to learn about Action Cable and…

Three cheers for (draft stage) progress on a Sanitizer API! It’s gospel that you can’t trust user input. And indeed, any app I’ve ever worked on has dealt with bad actors trying t…

I’ve been having this thought on the back of my mind for a long time to write about why it’s often a bad idea to start with microservices for a brand new project.

Let’s go on a journey into the world of memoization through the medium of dance Rails…

This version of Rails has been years in the conceptual making. It’s the fulfillment of a vision to present a truly full-stack approach to web development that tackles both the front- and back-end challenges with equal vigor. An omakase menu that includes everything from the aperitif to the dessert.

Why we undervalue front-end expertise in the web development world.

Learn how you can write your packages in TypeScript but still ship your users modern JavaScript code that they won’t have to manually compile.