When Rails releases a new version of their gems, they also release a number of npm packages like @rails/activestorage or...

If you want someone to be able to access your rails console, but don't want them to be able...

Running gem update --system will install the latest version of RubyGems. However the latest version might not be compatible with...

You might know a few examples, where you configure some library via a block. One example is the Rails configuration...

This cards describes an example with a Github Client on how to keep your Rails application more maintainable by extracting...

ActiveModel classes have a class method .human_attribute_name. This returns a human-readable form of the attribute: Person.human_attribute...

When you mocked method calls in RSpec, they are mocked until the end of a spec, or until you explicitly...

When you are using PgBouncer with e.g. a Ruby on Rails application which uses different application_names for the PostgreSQL...

In Rails 7.1 it has become possible to annotate partials with the locals they expect: # partial _user_name.erb <%# locals: (user:) %>

After an upgrade to rails 7 I noticed that async reindexing jobs of Searchkick were failing for Model.reindex(mode: :async...

If you are using the routing-filter gem in your Rails 7.1 app for managing URL segments for locales or...

shoelace is a library of web components. Here is a proof of concept how a integration (slightly different as the...

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Raising errors for required and permitted attributes makes it easier to find errors in your application during development and in...

This card describes two variants, that add a more intuitive workflow when working with nested attributes in Rails + Unpoly.

We are using assignable_values for managing enum values in Rails. Nevertheless Rails is adding more support for enum attributes...

This card describes different flavors for concatting HTML safe strings in a helper method in Rails. You might want to...

Why do we migrate? Due to a change in licensing, we cannot provide Elasticsearch versions >= 8.0. Version 7.17.x will...

Debugging performance issues in your Rails app can be a tough challenge. To get more detailed insights consider using the...

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There are two ways a logout in SAML can happen: Service Provider (SP) initiated and Identity Provider (IDP) initiated logout...

Starting with Rails 7.1 the production logger is set to standard out. For applications running with opscomplete ensure to keep...

tl;dr Prefer request specs over end-to-end tests (Capybara) to joyfully test file downloads! Why? Testing file downloads

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The author describes his little journey in hunting down a memory leak. Maybe his approach and tooling may one day...

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10.0.0 2024-03-07 Compatible changes console command: You can now globally disable the IRB multiline feature by setting irb...