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Responsive HTML data tables are a tricky problem that usually requires scrolling on small screens. With a sprinkle of Stimulus and the IntersectionObserver API, we can build a small enhancement to make the user experience more pleasant.

I was recently writing a piece of code that we wanted to act as a supervisor of child processes. We wanted to ask this supervisor the following “Hello there, would you mind running this task in a c

For quick, scalable, highly-available web services, few options compare to AWS Lambda. Just provide your code, add a little configuration, and you're done! In this article, Milap Neupane will introduce us to Lambda, show us how to get it working with Ruby…

Ruby, Rails, Web dev articles

RBS aims at unifying the efforts of the community and 3rd party solutions up to this point to provide a common set of rules to define types.

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Time to level up your debugging game with frames, adding breakpoints on the fly, and some handy shortcuts.

Rails form generation helper,

A short guide on creating a custom Formtastic input type based on a React Component

Rails 6.1 series | Rails 6.1 adds support for belongs_to to has_many inversing

How wondering about an odd benchmark result led to better performance

Rails 6.1 series | Rails 6.1 allows per environment configuration support for Active Storage

An article by Noah Gibbs about Ruby 3's performance for a Rails application. Ruby 3.0.0-preview1 was a tiny bit slower than 2.7. The release 3.0 is...

When reading the official Ruby 3.0 release post, one bullet caught my eye especially. With Ruby 3.0, IRB introduced a measure command. As someone who often times little snippets when debugging, comparing code, or writing new code, I was intrigued! IRB’s new…

Here on the Styling team at Stitch Fix, we are lessening the amount of state a developer needs to have in their head at any given time by moving towards an a...

Introduction Ruby’s dynamic nature is both its advantage and disadvantage. Being able to reopen system classes during runtime, while useful, can also lead to unexpected behaviors. This article presents one such case: how just requiring a gem can mess things…

Postgres has a nice feature where you can index only the values you want to query on. Today I learned that Rails has a nice shortcut for taking advantage of said feature.