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…

Hotwire is a new suite of frontend tools from Basecamp for building “reactive Rails” apps while writing a minimal amount of JavaScript.

Rails 6.1 adds the `if_exists` option in `remove_index` which when set to true won't raise an error if the index doesn't exist.

Learn the difference between the MIT and GNU GPL licenses to know which open-source software you can include in your projects.

Rails 7 adds the ability to push database queries to the background thread pool, effectively reducing load times by utilizing I/O waits.

An exhaustive and documented Docker configuration for developing Ruby and Rails applications

Ruby on Rails is a web framework that contains many libraries you’d need to create and deploy a successful web application. We often take for granted the ability to run rails new to create a fully functional web application with tons of built-in features.

TL;DR - You probably can’t replace Timecop with Rails' built in TimeHelpers, as TimeHelpers only recreates Timecop’s freeze method, and can’t handle nested travelling.Timecop is the go-to g

CockroachDB is a scalable, highly available database, and you can use it in your Rails apps today. In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps to using CockroachDB with Rails.

We analyze 5 different job and salary sites to get a sense of what Ruby on Rails developers are making in 2020.

Continuing on from the last video, I share even more of my best practices for Rails (including my best WORST practice)

A blog post about Ruby on Rails instrumentation with ActiveSupport::Notifications

Sometimes we get into situations where our applications requires a different type of user account which wouldn't really fit into a role. So, in this episode we look at creating multiple resources for authentication with Devise.

The fastest web page is one you've already loaded. Browsers love to avoid round-trips by caching assets. And HTTP provides ways for us to tell browsers what's changed and what hasn't - so they make the right decisions. In this article, Jonathan Miles introduces…

How to switch to Tailwind CSS JIT when using Ruby on Rails and Webpacker.

Learn how to accept payments in your Rails app with Stripe Checkout using the Pay gem