Automating Rubocop Into Your Rails Development Workflow

This video will show you a couple of ways to run Rubocop early and often so you and your team can ensure you’re avoiding inconsistencies and bugs while maintaining your code for the long haul.

Forcing a Rails database column to be not null

Here is a guide to forcing null constraints in Rails. It explains why, how to do it in different circumstances, and an introduction to change_column_null.

New release of OnStrum, configurable application healthcheck rack middleware 🚀

This gem allows you to embed healthcheck endpoints into your rack based application to perform healthcheck probes. Make your application compatible with Docker/Kubernetes healthchecks in a seconds:

Making a (Sidekiq) Batch Recipe

This post introduces Sidekiq Pro’s batches feature. It builds some tests that exercise batches to explain how they work. Read more

Hands-off eclipse photography with ruby and gphoto

How I automated exposure bracketing to take pictures of the eclipse totality using ruby and gphoto:

How to Build a Discord Bot in Ruby on Rails

In this guide, Fiona walks you through the process of creating a Discord bot using Ruby on Rails. Read more

Super Fast Rails – A promise given is a debt

Last week’s article, Super Fast Rails, received many funny reactions. But for some people, that was too much:

Account-based subdomains in Rails

Learn how to isolate data in Rails with multitenancy and customize your user experience with account-based subdomains. It’s all in our latest article on the Honeybadger Developer Blog.

Process management in Ruby 💎

Application, process, heap, stack, wow that’s a lot of triggering words. Ever wondered what they are and how they are translated in the Ruby world? 💎 Read more

An interactive intro to ruby debugger, part 2

I’ve expanded my interactive intro to ruby debugger, inside the debugger itself, with an introduction to using breakpoints: An interactive intro to ruby debugger, in the debugger

Maximizing Code Quality with Rails Pre-Commit and Pre-Push Hooks

🇺🇸 Ruby / Rails channel in telegram

Channel about Ruby and Ruby on Rails Read more

Do you still `pbcopy` and `pbpaste`?

Nothing’s wrong with that, but the advantage you get with the clipboard gem is that it works on many more platforms than just macOS (including Windows). Read more

Abstract methods and NotImplementedError in Ruby

Ruby’s NotImplementedError exception is often used as a placeholder in abstract classes for methods that should be implemented by subclasses. But did you know that this is not how this exception class was intended to be used? Read more

Windows and WSL

In this episode, we’ll look at setting up a fresh Windows 11 environment for Ruby on Rails development. We’ll be looking at a few different tricks that makes managing a Windows environment much easier. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/windows-and-wsl

How to add or remove a Stimulus controller

A quick memo about how to add or remove a Stimulus controller - I recommend to rely on generator this time. Read more

Introducing ActiveRecordAnonymizer

Excited to share a new Ruby gem I’ve been working on: ActiveRecordAnonymizer! 🚀 Read more

Optimized Model Auditing with PaperTrail

Learn how to optimize model auditing in your Rails application using the PaperTrail gem by setting up separate audit tables for each model, enhancing performance and organization in the auditing process:

RedisQueuedLocks [major 1.1.0 release]

Previously posted that RQL - the new tool for working with redis distributed locks with an ability to queue your lock requests in FIFO manner inside - is almost ready to release 1.0.0. version . But - here is a 1.1.0 has come! Read more

AnyCable v1.5: simplified pub/sub, whispering and more

This release’s major highlight is singed (and public) streams: skip channel classes and connect to your data streams directly (and securely), progressively enhance your application with bi-directional realtime features only when necessary (not so often). Read more

Streamlined Syntax - Unveiling the Power of Slim Template Language

Live reload a Rails 7 application, an unsatisfaying attempt

Livereload a Rails app on your local machine is still not available natively. Maybe in next version of Rails, but not yet. Read more

Outgrowing Heroku: An AWS Migration Story

Facing Heroku’s limitations during their Black Friday frenzy, TeePublic moved their Rails monolith to Amazon ECS. This story details their journey, including the why, how, and impressive results of the migration. (Spoiler: it was a game-changer)

Happy 4th Birthday, Bridgetown!

Four years ago today, the Bridgetown publishing framework was born, the first public website launch and release of Bridgetown 0.10 happened a few weeks later, and the rest as they say is history. As always, a hearty thank you to all our sponsors and 70+ contributors who have helped this open source project flourish in ways I never could have imagined.

Series of Interviewing blog posts

My fellow Rubyists, I know this isn’t the most Ruby of all posts (except for the FizzBuzz example) but I’ve seen many people make simple mistakes during hiring processes. And I want to help fix that, so I’ve written a series of posts geared towards programmers about interviewing that I hope y’all will find helpful!