Rails Envy: 6 Reasons to use Webbynode

Simplecov is a code coverage tool. This helps you to find out which parts of your application are not tested.

Integrating this in a rails project with rspec, cucumber and parallel_tests is easy.

1. Add i...

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:

c...

Amazing guide how to divide a ball of Javascript spaghetti distinct separate layers (model, view, controller, backend adapter).

It does not use a Javascript framework.

Rails supports alert and notice as default flash types. This allows you to use these keys as options in e.g. redirect_to and as a helper in views e.g. <%= notice %> (instead of flash[:notice]).

class SomeController < ApplicationReco...

If you have any class which requires access to some path methods generated by your routes. Even though you could technically include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers, this may include way too many methods and even overwrite some class method...

If you have a FooController and also have a layout app/views/layouts/foo.html, Rails will use this without being told so.

This is super convenient except never.

Sometimes you might want to limit the number of associated records in a has_many association, but cannot add a foreign key to the other model (using belongs_to).

There are [many](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8153051/rails-how-to-limit-n...

Sometimes you want to find the inverse of an ActiveRecord scope. Depending on what you want to achieve, this is quite easy with Rails 7, and a bit more complicated with Rails 6 and below, or when the inverse scope may contain NULL values. [1]

The...

At makandra, we've built a few gems over the years. Some of these are quite popular: spreewald (> 1M downloads), active_type (> 1M downloads), and geordi (> 200k downloads)

Developing a Ruby gem is different from developing Rails applications, w...