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 Read more

Cross domain session sharing in Rails - Part 2

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

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. Read more

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. Read more

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! Read more

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. Read more

New release of Truemail 🚀 configurable plain Ruby 📨 email validator

Added event logger and json serializer for email validation result. Be sure that email address valid and exists.

Introduction to background jobs

Getting Started with Svelte and Rails 6

Svelte is slowly rising to fame these days and it’s getting more and more traction with new version 3 being released in April. If you’re interested in how to get started with Rails and Svelte, this is the right post for you! We’ll go through the whats, the whys, and the hows between the two. Read more

Streaming Large ZIP Files in Rails

I recently went down a rabbit hole to describe how I implemented streaming of large ZIP files in Rails I hope you learn a thing or two about Rails APIs and HTTP streaming. Enjoy!