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Instead of leaning into heavy social sharing widgets, you can create a truly user-friendly social sharing component that works for everyone, using built-in APIs and progressive enhancement.

Build, deploy and manage your applications on any cloud or your own servers.

Need to catch N+1 queries without adding any extra dependencies to your project? Strict Loading makes it effortless, but your configurations need to be set up correctly to avoid unexpected behaviors.

Build shiny products on boring tech: proven frameworks, stable infrastructure, and tools that won’t vanish in 3 years.

Improve your design’s accessibility with this quick reference checklist and Penpot plugin.

Implementing an Inventory Module in Ruby on Rails: Handling Concurrency with Database Locks and SKIP LOCKED When implementing an inventory module in a Ruby on Rails application, ensuring consistency in stock levels is crucial. If multiple users try to purchase the same item simultaneously, concurrency issues can lead to overselling. In this post, we’ll explore two approaches to handling inventory management: Using a simple counter with database locks to prevent race conditions. Improving performance using SKIP LOCKED for efficient inventory allocation.

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I’ve been recently working on a Slack bot and Slack delivers all events (webhooks) to the same URL that you can configure. That means you need to distinguish between different events types based on the payload (request body). In the past, I’ve seen that Rails apps usually reimplement their own “slack routing” within a single controller action. I wanted to share a different solution that I came up with. Let’s do routing in rails routing.

For the past few months I've been introducing sprints into a chaotic startup that's been growing so fast everyone's got whiplash. Since August, 5 engineers turned into 12. I think it's starting to work.

See examples of using Ruby's Data class for creating value objects, removing boilerplate code, and enhancing API response handling

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In this guide I will explain how I configured and deployed a Rails 8.0.2 application using Kamal 2 with a Postgres database running as a kamal accessory on a single Virtual Private Server (VPS).

Authorization framework for Ruby/Rails application

The presenter pattern is a handy design approach that sits between your views and models, helping you keep your code organized by handling view-specific logic in a clean and maintainable way. Let’s explore how to use it you your rails app.

Every Rails app has a breaking point. Follow along and learn how to test your application's performance under load with the Apache JMeter's Rails load testing.

Learn how to seamlessly integrate online presence tracking into a Rails application powered by Hotwire and AnyCable.

Learn to create value objects in Ruby using idiomatic practices, focusing on immutability, comparability, and the modern `Data` class

A quick list of Ruby debugging tips and recommendations from Shopify’s Ruby DX team

Read the previous article to learn how Propshaft and importmap-rails work together to form the Rails 8 Asset pipeline. That article focuses on the interplay between the two and explains more of the importmap-rails side. Now, let’s dive into how Propshaft actually processes the assets.

Sooner than later your Rails app will see spam and bot sign ups. Here are three steps to minimize those sign ups from the day you launch.

A quick look at the search element, a semantic element for search and filtering

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There has never been a better time to start building with AI and the state-of-the-art models available to developers everywhere. Building…

Learn how to create animated accordions using only HTML and modern CSS with the details element, interpolate-size, transition-behavior, and the :has() selector.

Discover whether to use integer or string enums in Ruby on Rails. Learn their differences and see real-world code examples.