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A few months ago, Planet Argon kicked off a Rails 2.1 to Rails 3.0 / Ruby 1.8.7 to Ruby 1.9.3 upgrade for one of our clients. The monolithic Rails app contai...

If you’ve been following the changes in Turbo 8, it looks incredibly promising for improving the perception of speed and interactivity on our web apps. A lot of the Stimulus Tutorials could use an update since they were first written, so I thought it would be good to over existing tutorials and rethink them withContinue reading "Hotwire Tutorial: How Do I Drag and Drop Items in a List?"

Undoing an action, like archiving, deleting or even sending an email, is straightforward with Rails and Turbo. Let’s learn how to do it.

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Ruby and Rails have several features to make your code more performant using async programming. Here’s a list of these tools and how to use them.

Unlock the potential of Rails with multi-database configurations, exploring setup for multiple database settings, whether horizontally or vertically.

Is your testing strategy too top-heavy? Here are some techniques to spread coverage down the testing pyramid.

Practical tips to optimize your web performance by using HTML and CSS instead of JavaScript for common tasks like state management, responsive design, and UI elements.

Modern Web Weekly #18 One area in which developers have always wanted to customize elements is forms. Historically, it has often been hard to style form controls to give them the look and feel you want. The styling options are often limited and to this day, form controls like date

SQL seems like a data science underdog compared to Python and R. However, it’s far from it. I’ll show you here how you can use it as a data scientist.

I've been toying around with Kamal for some time now, and I believe I have come up with a nice setup for a reasonably robust deployment. It includes two servers, one for the application and another for database and caching, a firewall to expose only the ports we need (e.

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The N + 1 problem is common performance issue. Ruby on Rails provides tools and methodology for preventing it from happening in you applications.

I will walk through the steps my team followed to set up a pretty nice Rails development environment using Docker and VS Code Dev Containers.

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Mandatory AI generated image Introduction Litestack, and its Litedb component in particular, provides powerful and flexible full text search capability via the Litesearch module. Any context that u…

Judoscale's guide to architecting a perfect Sidekiq setup, easily!

If you’re migrating to AWS from another cloud like Heroku, or starting a new project and want to build your infrastructure on AWS, this guide is for you!

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely available and easily accessible and are increasingly a part of business. Whether you’re interacting with an LLM via the provided interface or connecting via an API and integrating it into other systems, it’s helpful to understand how to get the best possible results out...

The flexibility of JavaScript and React means there are lots of ways to achieve the same result. Let's consider why we might choose one way over another when it comes to React. Specifically, when to choose a more verbose solution with composition over the DRYest code possible.

Simple Form helps you to build and manage forms in Rails. Let's examine what Simple Form is, why we might need it, and some real use cases.

Want to write a Rails API controller test and make sure it includes exactly what your Jbuilder serializer returns? Set `render_views`. Learn why in this post.

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Check the health and security of your Rails app with these quick guide to Ruby on Rails Code audits. These are the steps to take to review your ruby on rails...

Ruby pattern to connect multiple APIs to your project more easily with async requests approach