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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.

It's surprising how often you still see this in the wild

WaterDrop is a standalone Karafka component library for generating Kafka messages - GitHub - karafka/waterdrop: WaterDrop is a standalone Karafka component library for generating Kafka messages

Open-source is the greatest opportunity to gather real-world experience while you are still on your journey of getting into the industry.

Find out why engineering team at Bearer made the decision last year to swap from a React on Rails SPA to a Hotwire application.

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Rails Event store is a storage of events. Optimize operations to be as fast as possible. We can only read the history of events and add new events.

One of the aspects of Ruby that often confuses newbies coming from other languages is the fact that it has both throw and catch and raise and rescue statemen…

Active Record implements aggregation through a macro-like class method called composed_of for representing attributes as value objects.

Two kinds of multi-step forms The creation of multi-step forms is a relatively common challenge faced in Rails programming (and probably in web development in general of course). Unlike regular CRUD interfaces, there’s not a prescribed “Rails Way” to do multi-step forms. This, plus the fact that multi-step forms are often inherently complicated, can make …

Elixir is similar enough to Ruby to be familiar, but different enough to get tripped up by! Image by OpenIcons from Pixabay I’ve been working through Dave Thomas’s fantastic book Progra…

What we’re going to do and why If you’re a Ruby programmer, you almost certainly use Proc objects all the time, although you might not be consciously aware of it. Blocks, which are ubiquitous in Ruby, and lambdas, which are used for things like Rails scopes, both involve Proc objects. In this post we’re going …

Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode, Donn talks to Jay Ohms about Turbo Native for Android, Hotwire, and how to build apps faster with Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus, and Strata. Jay is an Android developer at Basecamp.com and Hey.com and has been b

This is a Turbo Training page. Each section will contain an exercise to solve using Turbo. It will progress in difficulty.

I recently built a drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste file uploader for Markdown (like GitHub’s editor) using Stimulus and Active Storage. Check out the code and my write up on it.

Need to add audit logging to your Rails application? In this post, I review five popular Ruby gems you can use, walk through rolling your own solution, and share some recommendations about what solution to choose.

AWS Lambda lets you run your code without worrying about the nuts and bolts of server management or scaling. You might even say it's "serverless." In this article, Jeffrey Morhous shows us how to get started writing Lambda functions in Ruby.