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Rails programmers have almost always tried to figure out the golden approach to business logic in their applications. From getting better at object-oriented design, to service objects, all the way to entirely new ideas like Trailblazer or leaving Active Record altogether. Here’s one more design approach that’s clean yet railsy.

Learning to use Turbo Frames through examples in a Ruby on Rails app

If you want your text to be read, set it at a sufficient size! But what is a good font size, and how can you apply it in your web design? This article and video has answerers for you with some practical examples focused on body text in responsive web design. Ready – then let’s size up, how to size your fonts!

The backlash to modern front end development is gaining steam, with good reason: single-page apps have ruined the web. Can we rescue it without going backwar...

Scaling Rails apps is a process of master app architecture and supporting infrastructure. Learn how it’s done straight from our developer-friendly Rails guide.

The new CSS `accent-color` property makes it quick and easy to roll out our brand colors to certain form inputs by leveraging user agent styles. In this article we’ll take a look at what it does and how to use it alongside `color-scheme` for simple, accessible checkboxes and radio buttons — and imagine how we might use it in the future.

It's fairly common when working on existing or legacy codebases to find models that have instance methods defined on them that return ActiveRecord::Relation collections. This post explains how this can be avoided to improve the performance of your application.

I really like enums. They can be really powerful if they are used wisely. Let’s see what we can do with them in a multilingual Rails app with a little help from PORO (Plain Old Ruby Object).

Learn about trunk-based development, a version control management practice where developers merge small, frequent updates to a core “trunk” or main branch

Maybe you are already familiar with includes or preload, but you know that a lot of the time you will need more than just preload(:comments). It is common to have complex nested associations, scopes that you need or want to reuse, places where preloading all the associated records could hurt the performance of your app. How do you work with complex nested associations?… How do you simplify the preloading of those nested associations?… How do you “preload an scope”?… How do you preload just the latest n of each record?

How to use CSS comparison functions to create a conditional border radius

Get familiar with common antipatterns in writing tests for Rails applications when using fixtures and/or factories to manage dependencies.

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When authoring CSS we have to carefully think about how we write and structure our code. Cascade Layers (CSS @layer) aim to ease this task.

DHH recently announced that Hotwire is going to be included in Rails 7 by default. Due to its...

If someone steals your password, they can pretend to be you. That's why many companies provide two-factor or multi-factor authentication via a fingerprint scan, a YubiKey, an authenticator app, or SMS. In this article, Petr Hlavicka will give you a solid foundation of knowledge about multi-factor...

In most of the Rails apps I've built over the years I've had to add my own helpers for a weekday...

The third major release of Stimulus represents a big milestone for the Hotwire community. This is the first release where every substantial new feature came as a contribution from outside of Basecamp and HEY. We've got a new package, action parameters, default values, target lifecycle callbacks, debug mode, utility-CSS support, and Con...

Simplify and clarify your code by carefully choosing abstractions.

In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors.

A lot of times, people ask what’s Ruby good for apart from Rails. Ruby is great for various tasks from several different domains, and today, I would like to share how anybody can use Ruby in publishing ebooks.

Have you ever been in a situation where you wish you could have some control over the values in an object or array? Maybe you wanted to prevent certain

Build a search-as-you-type text box with Turbo, Stimulus, and Rails.

In this article we will discuss and demonstrate how we can use Ruby to encode UUIDs into URL friendly representations. This article does not assume any previous knowledge about UUIDs. Instead we will first discuss what exactly a UUID is. We look at all the reasons we would prefer using...

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