By default most exceptions in Rails will render a 500 error page and will create a new issue in your...
Rails Active Support provides some helpful methods for calculating times and dates, like Duration#ago or Duration#from...
Rails offers the fresh_when method to automatically compute an ETag from the given record, array of records or scope...
By activating strict_loading you force developers to address n+1 queries by preloading all associations used in the index...
Testing your responses in Rails allows to parse the body depending on the response MIME type with parsed_body.
The change_column method for rails migrations support casting with a custom SQL statement. This allows us to change a...
Rails partials have a lot of "hidden" features and this card describes some non-obvious usages of Rails Partials.
In the past we validate and set default values for boolean attributes in Rails and not the database itself.
Not all email clients support external images in all situations, e.g. an image within a link. In some cases, a...
Since Rails 7 you are able to encrypt database information with Active Record. Using Active Record Encryption will store an...
In Rails 5+ you can access a helper from a controller using the helpers method: # Inside a controller action
To retrieve only unique combinations of the selected attributes: You can omit rows, where all selected columns are equal with...
Rails includes milliseconds in Time / DateTime objects when rendering them as JSON: JSON.parse(User.last.to_json)['created_at'] #=> "2001-01-01...
Sometimes, the rails dev server doesn't terminate properly. This can for example happen when the dev server runs in...
After upgrading to Rails 6.1.7.2 one of our apps printed a wall of warnings while booting: /var/www/app/shared/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/net-protocol-0.2.1/lib/net/protocol.rb:68: warning: already...
Using ActiveRecord's #signed_id and .find_signed methods you can create URLs that expire after some time. No conditionals...
When an object is created / updated, various callbacks are executed in this order: before_validation after_validation before_save
Instead of cobbling together default settings in several different places as the issues arise, you can define them application-wide...
tl;dr You should decouple migrations from models by embedding models into the migration. To use STI in this scenario...
This can happen with a very simple model: class Note has_many :attachments end Everything looks normal: Note.all.to_a.size # => 8 Note.all.ids.size...
Large Rails projects tend to define multiple custom ways to format Dates or DateTimes. This often leads to duplicated format...
tl;dr Since Rails 7+ you can use ComparisonValidator for validations like greater_than, less_than, etc. on dates, numerics...
You can use ETags to allow clients to use cached responses, if your application would send the same contents as...
tl;dr git checkout is the swiss army of git commands. If you prefer a semantically more meaningful command for...