RubyMine: Using pinned tabs will increase your productivity

When giving a presentation where you do some coding, the font size you usually use is probably a bit too small and makes code hard to read for users on smaller screens or low-bandwidth connections when the image quality is lower.

Here are two sol...

Navigation

CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + N
: Search for any symbol in your application, like CSS classes, Ruby classes, methods, helpers etc.

CTRL + SHIFT + N
: Search for filename in your application (also dependencies)

CTRL + E
: Open...

There is no reason to leave trailing whitespace characters in your project's files, so don't add any.

A git diff --check will tell you if there are any and you should not commit when you see them. So go ahead and switch your editor/IDE to autom...

You want Spring for super-fast binstubs like bin/rails or bin/rspec which avoid Rails boot time.
You want parallel_tests to speed up full test runs of large test s...

Since Rails 7 you are able to encrypt database information with Active Record. Using Active Record Encryption will store an attribute as string in the database. And uses JSON for seri...

Proxy caching is a good feature to serve your publicly visible application content faster and reduce load on your servers. It is e.g. available in nginx, but also affects proxies delivered by ISPs.

Unfortunately, there is a little problem in Rail...

In a nutshell:

If you require your Rails models manually, pay attention to the path you use. Unless you have to, don't do it at all.

Background

Consider these classes:

# app/models/user.rb

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

...