Rails 6 jQuery upgrade with webpacker

Here’s a detailed blog on how to add jQuery in your Rails 6 application with the help of a webpacker! [more inside]

Configuring Jumpstart to send a welcome sequence w/ Heya

Here are some notes I took while checking out Jumpstart and walking through the “getting started” experience of the gem I’m working on right now. [more inside]

Getting Started with Ruby on Rails and Kubernetes

Lean how to prepare a Ruby on Rails application for Docker and Kubernetes -

Fetching ancestors/sibling records per locale in ActiveRecord

Working with tables where there may be multiple columns referencing parent records. [more inside]

How Trix works from the inside

We’ll break down its core components and explain what their function is and how they interrelate. Thank you for reading! Hope this helps. [more inside]

Redis connection pool in Rails

- Rails is multi-threaded, but can your redis connection handle it?

Catchup subscriptions with Rails Event Store

- See how to implement catchup subscriptions with Rails Event Store.

Rails connections, pools and handlers

- a blogpost explaining how these three relate to each other.

Rails adds support for db:rollback:name for multiple database applications

How to customize webpack in Rails apps

Configuring webpack is precisely the main job of Webpacker’s NPM package, @rails/webpacker. This post provides an overview of how to customize its default settings for your Rails application.

Processing SEPA transactions with Ruby

Check out how to process SEPA transactions with Ruby using a few tools. [more inside]

Rails Puma on SSL for localhost!

Had trouble with the new Cookie policy update from Chrome? Or you just want to start coding under HTTPs, check out my post then :D [more inside]

It's Time to Visit Bridgetown

Bridgetown is a Webpack-aware, Ruby-powered static site generator for the modern Jamstack era. It began as a fork of Jekyll and is evolving into so much more! Read the kickoff announcement, browse the docs, and check out (or checkout?) the repo on GitHub. Contributors welcome!

Passing Rails controller params to Sidekiq

It's Easy to Build: Custom docs project | Part 2 - HTML to MD

In this second part of the series - It’s Easy to Build: Custom docs project, we’ll learn how to convert our HTML code to an markdown text using Ruby. Link to Blog Post

Looking Inside a Ruby Gem

Have you ever wondered what a gem is? What’s inside a Ruby gem? In the Looking Inside a Ruby Gem article, I’d like to take you to the RubyGems factory to see where it all begins. We will first learn how to create a Ruby gem and then unpack it and look inside the internals.

Rails Performance: When is Caching the Right Choice?

We’ve all been there. You’re clicking around your Rails application, and it just isn’t as snappy as it used to be. You start searching for a quick-fix and find a lot of talk about caching. Take your existing app, add some caching, and voila, a performance boost with minimal code changes. However, it’s not this simple. Like most quick fixes, caching can have long-term costs. In this article, Jonathan Miles discusses what caching is and what can go wrong, as well as explains non-caching strategies you can use to speed up your Rails app.

Secure EC2 SSH Access for Dynamic IP with Ephemeral Security Groups

Leaving inbound EC2 SSH ports open greatly increases the risk of unauthorized entities running commands on the server. In the perfect world, each developer with access rights would use only a single static IP address. You could whitelist it in an AWS security group firewall in addition to using standard SSH keys based authentication. [more inside]

Rails Syntax Highlighting for VSCode

For anyone that enjoys Syntax Support . Started a collection of known rails methods now identified in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) via extension install.

Using Bootstrap with Webpacker in Rails 6

PaperTrail Gem Tutorial

I wrote a tutorial on how to revert and restore records using the PaperTrail Gem. [more inside]

ActiveRecord::Migration: terminology

In the context of a database, a migration refers to the action of manipulating records (update, insertion, deletion, etc..). [more inside]

Simple API for Ruby releases and branches info

Rubies.io is a simple and open source API written in Sinatra with a Redis backend to programmatically fetch info regarding Ruby versions, releases and branches. Need to know if 2.7.1 is still the last version? /api/2.7.1 is the answer. Wanna verify which branches are in security maintenance? /api/security. Check out Rubies.io.

Using multiple PostgreSQL databases in your Gitlab CI

I recently tested out running multiple databases, a feature that was introduced in Rails 6. This caused a bit of a problem in my Gitlab continuous integration set up. Here’s a short note on how I fixed it:

Introduction to Stimulus Reflex

Stimulus Reflex lets you build realtime, reactive apps in Rails similar to Phoenix LiveView. You don’t have to write any Javascript and it will use Rails to render all the HTML updates server-side. Check out Stimulus Reflex.