"Open-source software (OSS) is great. Anyone can use virtually any open-source code in their projects." Well, it depends...
If you have a :string or :text field, you should pair it with a model validation that restricts its length...
PostgreSQL offers three character types for your columns: character varying(n) (also called varchar or just string): Contents are limited...
In a web application you sometimes have tasks that can not be processed during a request but need to go...
tl;dr Don't forget require 'English' if you use a named global such as $LAST_MATCH_INFO. Otherwise this...
We use the whenever gem to automatically update the crontab of the servers we deploy to. By default, whenever will...
Ruby and Rails have several methods for creating a new object that looks like another: clone, dup, deep_dup. When...
The linked GitHub repository is a bit like our "dev" cards deck, but groomed from a single person (Josh Branchaud...
With puma you can have concurrent requests. There are two concepts on how Puma can handle two incoming requests: Workers...
Simplecov is a code coverage tool. This helps you to find out which parts of your application are not tested...
Sometimes it's nice to have some coloring in your logs for better readability. You can output your logs via...
This is a personal post-mortem analysis of a project that was mainly build to provide a REST API to...
PostgreSQL and ActiveRecord have a good support for storing dynamic attributes (hashes) in columns of type JSONB. But sometimes you...
Root Insurance runs their application as a monolithic Rails application – but they've modularized it inside its repository. Here is...
This checklist should help you to check edge cases that are not part of the default Carrierwave configuration.
If you want to make your Rails application be capable of sending SMTP emails, check out the action mailer configuration...
It's every developer's nightmare: SQL queries that get large and unwieldy. This can happen fairly quickly with the...
Install the latest bundler version: gem install bundler Fetching bundler-2.3.5.gem Successfully installed bundler-2.3.5 1 gem installed Update the bundler...
There is a kind of features in web applications that hinder automated integration tests. Examples include cookie consent banners or...
There is a practical short list for valid/invalid example email addresses - Thanks to Florian L.! The definition for valid emails...
Rails uses a CSRF token in forms and AJAX requests to verify a user request. Internally it compares the injected...
Normally, Rails handles encryption and signing of cookies, and you don't have to deal with the matter. Should you...
Unicorn allows you to specify the maximum number of workers. In development this could be useful if you use a...
The bin/webpack-dev-server command is not as smart as e.g. rails server, where it shows the proper fix within the error...