Environment variables are a great way to configure your Rails apps. You can use the Rails.env variable to conditionally change behavior when you are in development/test or production. And you can add your own application specific variables for things like…

Ruby 3.1 was recently released and it features one major syntax addition - you can now omit values in hash literals and keyword arguments in certain cases.1 The release notes give the following examples: The feature is officially named “hash…

Hi, Wojtek here introducing you to this year changes in the Rails.Released Rails 7.0.1The Ruby 3.1 is fully supported with this release. It also contains few bug fixes and documentation improvements.Retirement of WebpackerOnly security issues will be considered…

When working with a Rails back-end code, grabbing too many records from the database is discouraged,...

GraphQL is a flexible, strongly-typed query language. It's useful because it gives front-end developers the ability to query the database without many changes to the back-end. In this article, David Sanchez shows us h...

When building features that accept user-generated content, you may need to display dynamic content based on what the user specifies. Imagine you want to users to be able to customize a welcome message sent from your application when they invite someone to…

How to upgrade Ruby on Rails from 6.1 to 7.0, including the deprecations, required configurations, application code changes, and webpacker API chan...

Rails 7 now adds support for generated (virtual) columns to the PostgreSQL adapter that has been available since PSQL v12.

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dry-system and dry-container are extremely powerful tools and if you understand how to work with them, you'll never look back. It's amazing that Hanami uses them by default! Check out some useful debugging tips!

Strategic - Painless Strategy Pattern in Ruby and Rails - AndyObtiva/strategic

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How Shopify solved the dependency confusion vulnerability in over 600 Ruby applications and created tailored large-scale migration tooling to make it easier.

While update_attribute was used to bypass validations, update_attribute! now does the same but raises ActiveRecord::RecordNotSaved in case of any errors encountered in `before_*` callbacks.

Bundle and transpile JavaScript in Rails with esbuild, rollup.js, bun, or Webpack. - rails/jsbundling-rails

Learn how to effectively render tooltips in Rails without writing any JavaScript.

The Builder pattern allows you to hide the configuration of complex objects in a separate class.

It makes sense to use it when you feel like the creation of an object has become too complex, and you're repeating the process in a few different places. Or…

Dependency Injection is an extremely useful programming technique and can be easily implemented in Ruby! Mastering it is an important skill to leverage the power of Hanami applications! dry-container is one way to help you with it!