Use the Rails highlight helper to wrap search result matches in <mark> tags.

The Rails helper excerpt can extract a chunk of text that matches a certain phrase, no matter where in the string it is.

While looking at how a few gems handle delegation on Ruby 2.7, I noticed that many of them are unfortunately incorrect. The official blog post about keyword arguments changes in Ruby 2.7 and Ruby 3.0 is rather long and might be unclear. So I will keep this…

A common practice in Rails apps is to extract logic into plain-old Ruby objects (POROs). But often you are passing data to these objects directly from controller params and the data comes in as strings.

In this stream, Chris Oliver returns to help me out with the foundation of the Rails gem for Ruby, which will build on the ruby-ray gem (https://github.com/spatie/ruby-ray) which was created in our previous stream (https://youtu.be/qk-kz93IWF4?t=76).

https://myray.app…

We don't get to choose our families. Some of us don't even get to choose our databases. What do you do if you have the bad luck to inherit a database with non-unique ids? In this case study, Regan Ryan shows us how his team faced the challenge.

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It’s common to use environment variables to configure external services or other options in a Rails app. These ENV_VARS usually are not checked into source control, but rather configured per environment.

Let's take a deep dive into Webpacker and see how the tool works under the hood.

TBD

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Heroku Dataclips enable you to create SQL queries for your Heroku Postgres databases and share the results with colleagues, third-party tools, and the public. Recipients of a dataclip can view the data in their browser and also download it in JSON and CSV…

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Tensor word can have slightly different meaning depending upon the nature of study, like it’s defined differently in Physics, slightly …

Rails 7 series | Ruby 7.0 adds Enumerable#maximum

What makes Rails magical? It just might be its code loader. Put a few files in the right places, and - presto! - you have a web app. When you use a class, Rails handle...

Using NewRelic to find and fix a missing index in a Rails application

When it comes to compare dates, for some reason my brain really struggles. I mix up < and >= all the time and end up flipping them.