At Rebased we have an internal time tracking project called Harmonogram. Its backend is built in Ruby on Rails. It started as a playground for new hires to get used to company culture and conventions, but over time grew into a fully-functional tool. When…

Rails has a great, expressive term called pluck that allows you to grab a subset of data from a record. You can use this on ActiveRecord models to return one (or a few) columns.

Rails allows benchmark method to be called from anywhere with Rails.benchmark(

Rails 7 introduces new syntax for enum and few other changes

One of the most visible and controversial new developments with the release of Rails 6.0 is Hotwire. Like anything in web development, the growing ...

Rails 6.1 adds a config option to set a default value for the loading attribute of all image_tags. This is in line with the latest official HTML standard.

Want to login your user across all subdomains in your Rails app? Here's how.

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Sometimes a feature in your application will involve a back-and-forth between multiple users. When it comes time to write an automated system test, you can easily simulate switching between users using Capybara’s using_session helper.

Rails support for automating development environment setup includes a behavior that may surprise you! Here's how I addressed it in my applications.

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After working for over 8 years with Heroku and Ruby on Rails projects I have my own favorite set of Heroku add-ons that work great with Rails apps. You are a...

There are numerous ways to perform HTTP requests in Ruby. Let's dive in 5 of these solutions and compare each other.

Today I share some of my favorite practices applicable to Ruby on Rails (and to web development on small teams generally)

Over the past year I've made myself real friendly with GitHub::Result and I'm loving it. This post is a big intro on how to make your Ruby code more resilient with GitHub::Result leading the way.

You can't get very far with a Rails application without a database. Let's explore our options for adding one in a container.

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