Rails has deprecated using return, break and throw to exit a transaction

Elixir Isn’t Ruby

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Google Maps + Places Autocomplete with Rails, Turbolinks & Stimulus.js

Google Maps has not played well with Rails and Turbolinks. Using Stimulus.js, we can make it work seamlessly using custom events in Javascript to tie the two together allowing us to add maps and location search autocomplete from Google Maps extremely easily. Watch the screencast

Upgrading Rails: Tracking down deprecated callbacks in Rails 5.0

If you find yourself upgrading a Rails 5.0 app, I wrote a monkey-patch that makes it easier to track down deprecated callbacks 🔎 [more inside]

Optimised Docker builds for Rails apps

Hi, I wrote a post on how I do Docker builds for Rails apps. It features some tips such as having an external, shared cache for gem bundle and precompiled assets to speed builds up. [more inside]

[Screencast] Google Maps API with StimulusJS

Add unobtrusive maps to your application using StimulusJS to tie in Google Maps Javascript API and Places API. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/google-maps-api-with-stimulusjs

RoR Tips & Tricks Series – #1

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5 Ruby Tips You Probably Don’t Know

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Five reasons to start using Docker entry points for your Rails Docker services

Why the Ruby community encourages Duck Typing?

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Major New Release of Gollum Wiki

Gollum is a lightweight Ruby wiki system that uses git as a backend. It started life as the engine behind GitHub wikis, but the open source version has since evolved significantly, leading to the recent release of version 5.0. This includes large performance gains, and many much requested features, such as: [more inside]

Uploading multiple files with nginx upload module and upload progress bar

Link: https://blog.joshsoftware.com/2010/10/20/uploading-multiple-files-with-nginx-upload-module-and-upload-progress-bar/ [more inside]

The Real Difference: `self.method_name` vs `class << self`

I wasn’t satisfied with some SO answers on the difference between self.method_name and class << self so I wrote a post to complement those answers.

Webpack errors in my Rails app

Centralize Your Docker Logging With FluentD

TUNS - Twitter Unfollower Notification Service

Take a look at my last Open Source project. [more inside]

Rails, Turbolinks and animated page transitions

We wrote a post about Turbolinks and animations to help make Rails apps feel a little bit more like a single page app while retaining server-side rendering. [more inside]

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Feature Testing Using Capybara

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Ruby on Rails integration guide for passwordless authentication with DID.app

DID.app is an Identity Provider, that authenticates users by verifying access to either an email address or securely stored private key. [more inside]

70+ Ruby on Rails Security Best Practices & Vulnerabilities

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Exploring Method Arguments in Ruby

Changing the Approach to Debugging in Ruby with TracePoint

Learn more about TracePoint and how it makes code “tell us” what it’s doing. [more inside]

Exploring Redis and its data types

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Cuprite: headless Chrome Ruby driver for Capybara

Ferrum + Capybara = Cuprite Cuprite is a driver for Capybara that uses Ferrum — a minimal-dependency pure-Ruby driver for running headless Google Chrome instances. [more inside]