Trailblazer tutorial: refactoring legacy rails views with Traiblazer Cells - part 5

Invisible Captcha new release: a honeypot protection plugin for Rails

Hello 👋 I just released a new version of Invisible Captcha (v0.13.0), a gem to protect your forms/actions from spam bots and spiders. [more inside]

A Simple Single Sign On(SSO) using Rails, Docker

Managing Rails schema and data migrations without losing your mind

Rails database migrations are extremely powerful, but can be a mess if you don’t avoid the traps. This article outlines a boring way to handle schema and data migrations effectively. [more inside]

Persisted queries in GraphQL: Slim down Apollo requests to your Ruby application

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/persisted-queries-in-graphql-slim-down-apollo-requests-to-your-ruby-application [more inside]

Cross domain session sharing in Rails - Part 2

https://prathamesh.tech/2019/11/05/cross-domain-session-sharing-in-rails-part-2/ [more inside]

Introducing Skunk: Combine Code Quality and Coverage to Calculate a Stink Score

Skunk is a Ruby gem that will combine code quality metrics from Reek; Flay; Flog; and SimpleCov to calculate a Stink Score for a file or set of files. [more inside]

Rails 6 - Active Storage changes

[Screencast] Plugging in AnyCable

ActionCable can handle quite a bit of traffic, but it gets to a point where it can become a burden on the server. With AnyCable, we can not only handle more traffic, but it is also lighter on the resources. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/plugging-in-anycable

Ruby 2.7 adds inherit as an optional argument to Module#autoload?

TAP Formatters for RSpec-3

RSpec TAP Formatters provides four different TAP 13 format style with a proper nested display of example groups and includes stats for the total number of passed, failed, and pending tests per example group. The supported formats are:

Saving 3 Weeks Every Year by Speeding up a Test Suite

How I sped up a portion of a Rails test suite from 18 minutes down to 6.5 minutes. The post goes over the process of identifying the bottleneck and the challenges of adopting the solution. The app in question is open source and helps Veterans get their appeals for disability benefits processed faster. [more inside]

Trailblazer tutorial: updating old fat controller - part 4

validates_by_schema v0.4.0 released

Keep your ActiveRecord validations DRY by inferring them automatically from table column properties:

Introducing the pg_partition_manager gem

Making it super simple to manage partitioned tables in PostgreSQL.

How to move Rails app to a Docker container

A quick configuration sample

Deep dive into the code of Local Time

Introducing Deimos: Using Kafka as the Data Backbone for your architecture

Deimos has been used in-house at Flipp for about two years as a way of marrying messaging (Kafka), data schemas and encoding (Avro), and databases (ActiveRecord). We use this as a way to unlock data living in databases to be part of a “data backbone” which powers our microservices architecture. We’re excited about making it even better - would love to hear feedback! [more inside]

Rails 6 adds ActiveStorage::Blob#open

sportdb-readers Gem - sport.db Readers for Leagues, Seasons, Clubs, Matches, Etc.

Hello, I’ve put together the sportdb-reader gem / library that lets you read in (import) text datafiles into any SQL database (using the sport.db schema / tables) using SportDb.read. Try it with the English Premier League e.g. (2019-20/1-premierleague.txt) or the Deutsche Bundesliga e.g. (2019-20/1-bundesliga.txt), for example. Cheers. Prost.

RubyCritic now has support for SimpleCov

This is how we helped to implement this feature:

Rails 6 adds after_save_commit

Safely Removing Image Assets from Rails

How to safely remove image assets from a Rails app. If you have a legacy app, your image assets often turn into a bloated junk drawer. Clean them up for faster tests, deployments, and less clutter. Follow this guide to remove Rails image assets with confidence.

Using bind parameters in Active Record for SQL security and performance

End-to-end testing for API only Ruby on Rails apps with Cucumber syntax

My experience with implementing end-to-end testing for API only Rails apps leveraging the gherkin syntax. A real life example of the importance and the benefits of this level of testing. [more inside]