I really like enums. They can be really powerful if they are used wisely. Let’s see what we can do with them in a multilingual Rails app with a little help from PORO (Plain Old Ruby Object).

Rails 7 added PGSSLMODE, PGSSLCERT, PGSSLKEY, and PGSSLROOTCERT to DBConsole class to load SSL-related environment variables from database config when running bin/rails dbconsole with postgresql.

Rails 7 series | Ruby 7.0 adds ComparisonValidator to ActiveRecord

A short guide to verifying payment provider Paddle.com webhooks and alerts in Ruby on Rails

Config variables should never be embedded directly in the codebase. It is a common practice to extract them into a separate configuration layer. A standard approach for Ruby on Rails apps is to use static ENV variables that can only be changed via a release…

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