Rails migrations allow you to use a change method whose calls are automatically inverted for the down path. However, if you need to some path-specific logic (like SQL UPDATE statements) you can not define up and down methods at the same time.

If you were to define define all 3 of them, Rails would only run change and ignore up and down. However, Rails 4+ features a helper method called reversible Archive :

class MyMigration < ActiveRecord::Migration

  def...

Building application assets with esbuild is the new way to do it, and it's great, especially in combination with Sprockets (or Propshaft on Rails 7).
You might be missing some convenience features, though.

Here we cover one specific issue:
Once you have started your development Rails server and esbuild with the --watch option (if you used jsbundling-rails to set up, you probably use bin/dev), esbuild will recompile your assets upon change, but build errors will only be printed to the terminal. Your application won't complain about them ...

You want to deploy new features but the latest commits are not ready for production? Then use git merge master~n to skip the n-last commits.

Tip

A big advantage of merging vs. cherry-picking is that cherry-picking will create copies of all picked commits. When you eventually do merge the branch after cherry-picking, you will have duplicate commit messages in your history.

Example

It's time for a production deployment!

git log --pretty=format:"%h - %s" --reverse origin/production..origin/master

0e6ab39f - Feature A
6396...

Not all versions of Node.js are compatible with each other. Also npm packages may require a minimum or maximum version of Node.js. We use nvm on our development PCs so we can operate multiple versions of Node.js in parallel.

To make sure that all developers use a compatible version of Node.js, your Rails project should declare the required Node.js in a file called .nvmrc.

When a .nvmrc exists, developers can cd in your project directory and activate...

When you have two models in a has_many, has_one or belongs_to association, the :inverse_of option in Rails tells ActiveRecord that they're two sides of the same association.

Example with a has_many / belongs_to association:

class Forum < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :posts, :inverse_of => :forum
end

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :forum, :inverse_of => :posts
end

Knowing the other side of the same association Rails can optimize object loading so forum and forum.posts[0].forum will reference the same...

When you generate a URL in a mailer view, ActionMailer will raise an error unless you previously configured it which hostname to use. Configuring the correct hostname is quite annoying when you have multiple deployment targets with different hostnames, e.g. a staging server and a production server.

Dynamic solution when mail is delivered from request cycle

Using the hack below you don't need to configure a default hostname for your mailers. They will always use the hostname for the current request:

class ApplicationController < Ac...

The Edge Rider gem Archive gives your relations a method #traverse_association which
returns a new relation by "pivoting" around a named association.

Say we have a Post model and each Post belongs to an author:

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :author
end

To turn a relation of posts into a relation of its authors:

posts = Post.where(:archived => false)
authors = posts.traverse_association(:author)

You can traverse multiple associations in a single call.
E.g. t...

You can share a state in Ruby with global variables Archive . Even if you should avoid them whenever possible, for debugging an application this could be temporary quite handy.

Example:

class User

  after_save { byebug if $debug; nil }

  def lock
   self.locked = true
   save
  end

end

Rspec.describe User do

  let(:user) { create(:user) } 

  before do
   # Many users are created and saved in this hook, but we don't want the debugger to stop for them
   10....

It is very common to parse dates from strings. It seems obvious to use Date.parse for this job. However this method does not validate the input and tries to guess the format of the string.

This can lead to a very unexpected results:

> Date.parse('Foobar_09_2018')
Tue, 09 Oct 2018

In most of the cases it would be better to use Date.strptime as you can provide a date or time pattern to match against.

> Date.strptime('Foobar_09_2018', '%d_%m_%Y')
ArgumentError (invalid strptime format - `%d_%m_%Y')
> Date.strptime('01_09_20...