Rails programmers have almost always tried to figure out the golden approach to business logic in their applications. From getting better at object-oriented design, to service objects, all the way to entirely new ideas like Trailblazer or leaving Active Record…

Rails 7 series | Ruby 7.0 adds setting for enumerating columns in select statements

DynamoDB is a NoSQL database offered by AWS. It can be a great way to avoid adding load to your primary database when you need tens of thousands of reads/writes per second. In this article, Julie Kent walks us through the basics of using DynamoDB with Rails.

In this video, you'll learn how to add RBS to your project and get an overview of the main RBS features that RubyMine offers.

0:16 - Install RBS
1:02 - Create a new RBS file
1:20 - Generate an RBS prototype
1:47 - Examine the high-level structure of your…

Hey, Wojtek here with last week updates from the Ruby on Rails world.

A team of skilled engineers from Shopify and GitHub on YJIT, a new Just-in-time (JIT) compiler built inside CRuby.

In this episode, we discuss when to use UUIDs (and when not to).

Having a thousand lines long controllers and/or models is not the right way to have sustainable applications or developers’ sanity. Let’s look at my solution for business logic in the Rails app.

Implement optimistic locking in Rails APIs to avoid potentially critical issues.

Could we drop Symbols from Ruby? Don’t know about you, but I personally have been hit a least a dozen times by bugs caused by strings vs symbols distinction. That happened in my own code, and it happened when using some other libraries as well. I like how…

I got paid by three different companies (startup, startup, and established org) to audit several different Rails test suites. Here's what I've learned

Thoughts and learnings on writing better software

A lesser known capability of Ruby’s JSON.parse If you ever got annoyed by the fact that JSON.parse returns hash with string keys and prefer hashes with symbols as keys, this post is for you.

Docker image for Ruby build from Fullstaq packages based on Debian 10, 11, and 12. - evilmartians/fullstaq-ruby-docker

Discover useful how-tos with Ruby

When you are working with SQL, to use information from other tables you would
use a JOIN…

And if you are just starting to learn ActiveRecord comming from SQL, you could
think that by using the joins method you will be able to later use the data
from...

ActiveSupport::TestCase#assert_no_changes adds additional options.

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