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While working with a legacy BBj PRO/5 database for a client, we needed to set up a new CMS with multitenancy requirements. We were dealing with a slew of foreign tables representing the PRO/5 data, and each of the tables had a column for designating which tenant they belonged to. Let's talk about how we leveraged ActiveSupport::CurrentAttributes to solve this problem!

A staging environment is a safe replica of production where you can test features before going live. In this post, we'll create a staging environment for the blog and deploy to it with Kamal. It also covers the basics of Rails environments and shows how to configure Kamal for staging deployments.

The whole point of auto-fit and auto-fill is that you aren't saying how many columns to use. But if you knew how many the browser chose, you can make nice design decisions.

Best bet: just always use them. More nuanced take: there is a few situations where using the physical property is still releavant.

This article explores techniques for achieving near zero-downtime during PostgreSQL migrations and upgrades

As an respectable unemployed person must do, I tried to make Postgres as slow as possible

subgrid in CSS is really handy for getting a nice level of design detail in place, especially in terms of maintaining a nice reading line, as Andy shows in this article.

In this continuation of our PWA series, explore how to reduce the service worker boilerplate in your Rails app.

How Ruby's async ecosystem transforms resource-intensive LLM applications into efficient, scalable systems - without rewriting your codebase.

Using ViewComponents that know how to refresh themselves via turbo_streams is a powerful pattern to build complex flows with Hotwire

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This past week, I was having a conversation with a reader and he brought up the example of Rails’ delegated_type. While I’ve never been a fan of the name, because...

The Rails defaults are a good foundation, but it’s still your responsibility to filter sensitive information from logs when using external APIs, services, and tools.

Here's a spicy take: SQLite might be the best database choice for your next SaaS project. Yes,...

Learn when and why to use read replicas in Rails applications, understand the architecture, and implement basic read/write splitting with real-world exa...

Learn how to handle API request versioning in Rails without duplicating controllers, using a schema-based approach that supports OpenAPI documentation and seamlessly maps external API structures to internal models.

Fixing the problems Turbo has when being used to add dynamism to tables in Rails.

It is becoming more and more common to use LLM chatbots for customer support and it is pretty easy to introduce security issues while implementing them. Here is a little story about such thing.

This checklist can help you assess your current Postgres setup and identify steps that can enhance the robustness, security, and scalability of your PostgreSQL deployment.

Three examples of integrating LLMs in Ruby using OmniAI.

How to handle table partitionaing for an already existing table which holds some (probably much) data. How to do table partitioning in Ruby on Rails.

Kamal 2 finally brings the most requested feature to reality and allows people to run multiple applications simultaneously on a single server. Here’s how.

Articles about Generative-Ai in the Custom AI Solutions blog.

Learn how to build offline-first React Native apps with React Query and TypeScript for a responsive and seamless user experience even without internet connectivity.

CSS is evolving quickly and there many really cool new features that can help you craft beautiful web pages.