In the past we validate and set default values for boolean attributes in Rails and not the database itself.
Since Rails 7 you are able to encrypt database information with Active Record. Using Active Record Encryption will store an...
To retrieve only unique combinations of the selected attributes: You can omit rows, where all selected columns are equal with...
When an object is created / updated, various callbacks are executed in this order: before_validation after_validation before_save
If you're frequently switching between projects, you might be annoyed by RubyMines behavior of opening the last project on...
If you're experiencing that your bundle install command fails with an error message like this, rubygems.org might...
Unpoly's [up-observe], [up-autosubmit] and [up-validate] as well as their programmatic variants up.observe() and up.autosubmit...
tl;dr Since Rails 7+ you can use ComparisonValidator for validations like greater_than, less_than, etc. on dates, numerics...
Here are a few common patterns that will probably lead to flaky specs. If you notice them in your specs...
tl;dr git checkout is the swiss army of git commands. If you prefer a semantically more meaningful command for...
The robots.txt file and HTML tag can be used to control the behavior of search engine crawlers. Both have different...
For Rails models where only one of multiple attributes may be filled out at the same time, there is no...
Greg Molnar has written a neat article about creating a single-file Rails app. This is not meant for production...
This should be fixed in the latest LTS-branches of our mysql2 fork, 0.2.x-lts and 0.3.x-lts...
When paginating records, we usually need to know the number of total records in order to render pagination links. Popular...
I recently wanted to add a model for address information but also wanted to add a unique index to those...
Imagine these models and associations: class Deck < ApplicationRecord has_many :cards end class Card < ApplicationRecord belongs_to :deck, optional: true...
There is a way to use multiple databases in Rails. You may have asked yourself how you're able to...
tl;dr You can use attribute? as shorthanded version of attribute.present?, except for numeric attributes and associations. Technical Details
You can use Unpoly's up.on with a named listener function and immediately unbind this event listener with { once: true...
Since Rails 6.1, if we use where.not with multiple attributes, it applies logical NAND (NOT(A) OR NOT(B)) instead...
You can use RSpec::Matchers.define_negated_matcher to define a negated version of an existing matcher. This is particularly useful...
Elasticsearch defaults to go into readonly mode when you run low on disk space (< 95%). You might then see an...
Rails 6.1 has a "strict loading" mode that forces the developer to preload any association they plan to use. Associations...