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Overview Influenced by the experiences I’ve had last over the 10+ years of building and maintaining Rails applications, combined with my experiences using other technologies, I’ve developed some ways of structuring Rails applications that have worked out pretty well for me. Some of my organizational tactics follow conventional wisdom, like keeping controllers thin. Other of […]

As someone just sittin' back watching CSS evolve, it feels like we're at one of the hottest moments of innovation in CSS history. It was really something

Could we drop Symbols from Ruby? Don’t know about you, but I personally have been hit a least a dozen times by bugs caused by strings vs symbols distinction. That happened in my own code, and it happened when using some other libraries as well. I like how symbols look in the code, but I don’t like the specific distinction that is made between them and strings. In my (perhaps controversial opinion) they introduce more problems than they solve.

The `prefers-reduced-motion` media query has excellent support in all modern browsers going back a couple of years. In this article, Michelle Barker explains why there’s no reason not to use it today to make your sites more accessible.

Hello everyone, In this tutorial, you will learn how to add RBS to your project and get an overview of the main RBS features that RubyMine offers. For more information about this topic, read the sec

I was doing some research on introspecting Ruby on Rails database transactions for a Reddit thread, and came across this Rails PR that had some new Ruby beha...

Ruby on Rails and ReactJS consulting company. We also build mobile applications using React Native

Having a thousand lines long controllers and/or models is not the right way to have sustainable applications or developers’ sanity. Let’s look at my solution for business logic in the Rails app.

Rails 7 series | Rails 7 adds the ability to use pre-defined variants

Ruby on Rails and ReactJS consulting company. We also build mobile applications using React Native

Covariance and contravariance are the concepts behind the subtyping of composable types.

There are a number of very robust charting libraries on the market. Some are commercial. Some are free. You should use them. Every once in a while though, you need to roll your own. Not to worry! With a splash of SVG and helping hand from Stencil, you can create a chart as a web component for all to use.

Zeitwerk is the code autoloader and reloader that was integrated with Rails 6. Beginning in Rails 7, it will be the only codeloader option. As a result, upgrading to Zeitwerk will be an important step in getting your application ready for the next version of Rails. In this article, we’ll...

Writing CSS has probably never been more fun and exciting than it is today. In this post we’ll take a look at common problems and use cases we all have to face in our work and how to solve them with modern CSS. If you’re interested, we’ve also just recently covered [CSS auditing tools](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-auditing-tools/), [CSS generators](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-generators/), [front-end boilerplates](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/useful-frontend-boilerplates-starter-kits/) and [VS code extensions](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/useful-vs-code-extensions-web-developers/) — you might find them useful, too.

The guide is separated into several sections of related rules. I’ve tried to add the rationale behind the rules (if it’s omitted I’ve assumed it’s pretty obvious).

Ruby’s safe navigation can hide some subtle edge cases. We explore approaches to think about conditional logic, alternatives to <code>&.</code>, and when <code>&.</code> is the best tool for the job.

Rails programmers have almost always tried to figure out the golden approach to business logic in their applications. From getting better at object-oriented design, to service objects, all the way to entirely new ideas like Trailblazer or leaving Active Record altogether. Here’s one more design approach that’s clean yet railsy.

Learning to use Turbo Frames through examples in a Ruby on Rails app

If you want your text to be read, set it at a sufficient size! But what is a good font size, and how can you apply it in your web design? This article and video has answerers for you with some practical examples focused on body text in responsive web design. Ready – then let’s size up, how to size your fonts!

The backlash to modern front end development is gaining steam, with good reason: single-page apps have ruined the web. Can we rescue it without going backwar...

Scaling Rails apps is a process of master app architecture and supporting infrastructure. Learn how it’s done straight from our developer-friendly Rails guide.

The new CSS `accent-color` property makes it quick and easy to roll out our brand colors to certain form inputs by leveraging user agent styles. In this article we’ll take a look at what it does and how to use it alongside `color-scheme` for simple, accessible checkboxes and radio buttons — and imagine how we might use it in the future.

It's fairly common when working on existing or legacy codebases to find models that have instance methods defined on them that return ActiveRecord::Relation collections. This post explains how this can be avoided to improve the performance of your application.

I really like enums. They can be really powerful if they are used wisely. Let’s see what we can do with them in a multilingual Rails app with a little help from PORO (Plain Old Ruby Object).

Learn about trunk-based development, a version control management practice where developers merge small, frequent updates to a core “trunk” or main branch