Docker allows you to build a self-contained image with your application code and all it's dependencies. We'll setup our Dockerfile for the Rails app and Docker Compose yml for any other services we might need like Postgres or Redis.

An enum is a data type made out of a set of named values. Let’s leverage them

Ruby is known for its many handy methods. I’d like to take a look at one that is a little bit less known, but quite powerful nonetheless: the #grep method.

This covers the joys and pains of a fully functional webhook system. Along the way I practice shower driven development to solve my problems.

Rails 7 adds `#with_all_rich_text` to ActionText for eager loading all rich text associations.

Rails 7 series | Rails 7.0 adds Enumerable#in_order_of

Good morning everyone! If you have a Rails app 6.1+, you probably noticed all of your bundle installs are failing! A gem, mimemagic, had a licensing issue and needed to yank all of its old (illegal) versions and relicense. Your options:

Rails 7 adds a method to stream directly from your own controllers.

There are various schools of thought around how best to define dependencies in your object graph. Let’s learn about the one I prefer to use the majority of the time. It takes advantage of three techniques Ruby provides for us: variable-like method calls,…

Who wouldn’t want a live preview for writing their great content? If you happen to be running Rails with Hotwire, it’s surprisingly easy with a small Stimulus controller.

Your app must comply with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) even if you are not located in the EU. It is enough that you have European users. In this blog post, I'll describe eight ways to improve the GDPR compliance for your web app. Implementing…

Read more on the Doximity Technology Blog about how our engineers and data scientists are building the largest online network for clinicians.

The release of the first major release of Crystal arrives after many years of hard work. With thousands of contributions from people worldwide, it was finally possible to find consensus for what truly mattered for 1.0 and what could wait for future releases.…

Hey everyone! Rails versions 5.2.5, 6.0.3.6 and 6.1.3.1 have been released. These versions upgradeActive Storage’s Marcel dependency to version 1.0.0.

How to use JWKS to verify your JWTs, and edgecases

A fast app means happy users. The speed that your pages render depends on which templating system you use. In this article, Diogo Souza puts the three most popular Ruby templating engines to the test to see which is f...

At work I was tasked to migrate our time-series analytics data from CSV file dumps that we’ve been feeding into Power BI to a dedicated database. Our Rails app’s primary database is currently MariaDB, but we wanted to have our analytics data in a separate…