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What happens when you stop maintaining your Rails application?

Here are the risks and common scenarios we see when a team doesn’t have a plan for ongoing maintenance for their Rails application. We also share how we support clients in these situations with our new, flexible, Rails Maintenance offering.
Jeanine Soterwood
November 21, 2022
- Good Code
- TDD
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
- Technical Debt
Building an Alexa Skill in Arabic with Ruby

More detail on how the thoughtbot team built one of the first Alexa skills in Arabic, and what we learned about using Ruby on Rails to support the development of Alexa Skills in the process.
Fritz Meissner, Sami Birnbaum & Kelly Gebo
November 18, 2022
Site-wide configuration with Administrate

Adding site-wide configuration with a Rails model can be quite easy to do with Administrate.
Nick Charlton
November 17, 2022
- Rails
- Administrate
Making changes safely at scale

Move fast but don’t break things.
Thom Carter
November 3, 2022
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Using a Dependency Graph to Visualize RSpec let

A visual answer to the question “what data is created when I execute this test?”.
Joël Quenneville
October 3, 2022
- Development
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Detect anomalies in user behavior using Rails and PostgreSQL

You probably use some type of error monitoring software to notify you when an exception is raised in your application, but are you being notified when there is an anomaly in user behavior?
Steve Polito
September 29, 2022
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
- Analytics
- Rails
Query by Duration in Active Record

How do you even save a “duration”, let alone query for records by that value? It’s actually easier than you think.
Steve Polito
June 7, 2022
- Rails
- Databases
- PostgreSQL
- Active Record
- SQL
A Case for Query Objects in Rails

When is it best to reach for query objects and how can we best structure them?
Thiago Araújo Silva
May 13, 2022
- Rails
- Ruby
- Query Objects
Tips for Using FactoryBot Without an ORM

Exploring how to use FactoryBot effectively with models backed by plain Ruby objects.
Oli Peate
April 28, 2022
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
- Ruby
- Rails
- Web
Reducing Leaky Abstractions Introduced by ActiveRecord

ActiveRecord provides a comprehensive interface for querying the database, but at what cost?
Josh Clayton
March 30, 2022
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
- Good Code
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