Rails 8 will be released this year - let's look at the features.

Work on Rails 8 is starting, so I dug through the official GitHub milestone to break down all the upcoming goodies for you. There's plenty coming, including Solid Queue, Solid Cache and Kamal becoming defaults, better support for PWAs, an official LSP, and…

Kyle Keesling is an Indianapolis-based Ruby on Rails developer. He enjoys coding, cargo bikes, and playing hurling.

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Shopify wanted a cache format that would not blow up when we shipped code changes. Part one of Caching Without Marshal describes Marshal, Ruby’s ultimate sharp knife, able to transform almost any object into a binary blob and back.

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I recently participated in an interesting series of debugging sessions tracking down the source of a large increase in memory when upgrading a Rails applicat...

As the morning sun casts its gentle glow, I find myself aboard a train bound for Szklarska Poręba. I'm literally on Rails! I thought, what better setting to share the latest updates on Rails than while traversing these literal rails? Define a class method…

At first, Lefthook was just a wrapper for calling custom scripts on Git hooks, but it has evolved into a tool that provides a clean and flexible way to automate your development routine, both in obvious and quite surprising ways. Read and see real project…

Learn how to manage TailwindCSS classes and HTML attributes in view components via the APIs provided by the view_component-contrib gem.

Simple, easy secret management for teams that need to share secrets across multiple applications or across languages. Share secrets between node and ruby and java.

Introduction I'm happy to announce that Karafka 2.3 and its Web UI 0.8 have just been released. For those who wonder what Karafka is, Karafka is a Ruby and Rails multi-threaded efficient Kafka processing framework. The Karafka 2.3 release builds upon the…

To obtain good performance and low latency for any user accessing our site, we often use CDNs to serve our static assets. This article shows how to do the same for ActiveStorage attachments.

Hi, it’s Greg. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Deprecate passing nil as model argument Passing model: nil as an argument to the form_with method will be deprecated in the next release of Rails. Skip CSS when creating APIs This pull…

Learn how to package your Ruby application into a WebAssembly module and run it right in a web browser. Get Ruby Next without leaving your browser and share your experiments with others simply by sending a link.

Hi! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails! Rails World CFP Call for Papers is now open for The Rails World 2024 conference that will be held in Toronto, Canada this year. The CFP will remain open until 21st March. Head over here to submit…

How can we manage the priorities of different users without compromising user experience in a multi-tenant app? We share our solution—plus, our new Ruby gem for implementing it!

Turbo 8 works out of the box with Turbo Native, on both iOS and Android

But there's a big gotcha. The latest releases of Turbo iOS and Turbo Android show a very noticeable flicker when changes are broadcasted.

Lucky for us there are already PRs to fix the…

Setting up VS Code for Ruby on Rails development can be tricky, so I wrote this article to help. In it, I share different VS Code extensions for things like autocomplete, linting, formatting and more! I've even put together a handy extension pack to get you…

In this article, I break down the difference between system specs and feature specs in RSpec and Rails, and walk you through refactoring your feature specs to system specs.