Previously, we created a SPA-like experience using Stimulus and RxJs. Let’s recreate that using Turbo Frames, and add use Stimulus to add some polish, such as loading states and keeping track of the selected item.

Using Hotwire and Rails to build a search-as-you-type user experience

Rails 7 utilized Ruby's cache for cvars to improve ActiveRecord::Base.logger performance 7x. Let's deep dive into this!

An object that encapsulates access to an external system or resource

Let's dive into Bullet and find out how it can help you identify some database-related problems.

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…

Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development.

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Hi, we're Arkency and it's our blog with meaty content.

It is always nice to follow a detailed guide and steps when building new rails apps. Below is a bit of guidance and step-by-step…

Vue is a popular front-end that is especially useful for Rails developers since it was designed to be incrementally adoptable. That means you can use Vue for parts of your UI without having to rebuild everything from scratch. In this article, John Emmanual…

Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling: https://world.hey.com/dhh/modern-web-apps-without-javascript-bundling-or-transpiling-a20f2755

Rails 7 minus Webpack plus importmap PR: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/42999

Have you ever updated a database for one project just to discover that you accidentally broke another? Ensuring the isolation between your local dependencies can save you hours of rolling back a breaking update or resolving intertwined dependencies. In this…

Before this update, a failed preview generation would result in a 0-byte file being created – leading to disastrous outcomes in the views.

A primer on avoiding duplicates in database tables that back your multi-threaded Rails applications with runnable examples

I didn't much care for vanilla JavaScript prior to ES6. Through all of the 2000s, I chased different approaches to avoid writing too much of it. First there was RJS (Ruby-to-JavaScript). Then there was CoffeeScript. Both transpiling approaches that turned…

Sometimes (read: always) you will need to debug your Ruby on Rails application. In this video I cover some of the gems and methods you can use to do that!

00:00 Introduction
01:35 Logging & Customer Loggers
07:58 Debug on webpage
11:40 Marginalia Gem
16:40…

Also known as "why do I need to require stuff sometimes, and not other times?"