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

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Hi everyone! Rails versions 6.0.4.1 and 6.1.4.1 have been released!

Hello, zzak again with the latest changes in Rails this week!

Tailwind CSS is a popular CSS framework that helps developers quickly build and style web pages with a unique utility-based approach. Unlike other CSS frameworks, it comes with its own build tooling. In this article, ...

Vite.js brings the joy back to frontend tooling! Learn how to use it in Ruby projects.

Rails 7 introduced a config that helps button_to consistently render out to the button HTML tag.

Monkeypatching can be a great way to improve existing code if used right. Let's find out how.

Rails 7 remove_columns will now trigger a single SQL statement to remove all columns if the database supports it, instead of querying multiple SQL statements for removing individual columns.

Rails 7 is taking up speed. There is no beta out yet, but a lot of features, especially in ActiveRecord are available, if one want’s to wade through the Changelogs.

In this video, we talk about the limitations of CRUD in representing the DB in the code. As an alternative, another approach is suggested - representing business in the code.

Later we talk about the reusability of business modules and how the low-code approach…

Hotwire is a way to build modern web applications without much JavaScript by sending HTML over the wire. In this article, Renata Marques introduces us to Hotwire and w...

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Rails 7 adds support for redirecting using any arguments that respond_to `#to_str`.

Rails performance audits and tuning have been my main occupation and source of income for over a year now. In this blog post, I'll share a few secrets of my trade. Read on if you want to learn how I approach optimizing an unknown codebase, what tools I use…

Adding GraphQL pagination might be tricky because there are quite a lot of different implementations. In this tutorial, we are going to prepare a separate query file to get you familiar with it.