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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
Switching from ENV files to Rails Credentials

A little bit of my struggles with ENV files throughout the years, and hopefully a better solution.
Marina Joranhezon
March 29, 2022
Rails Server Side Analytics From Scratch

Learn how to track user events without sacrificing privacy and performance.
Steve Polito
March 28, 2022
- Rails
- Analytics
- Web
Hotwire: Turbo-Streaming ViewComponents

Learn how to Turbo-Stream ViewComponents by building a message board.
Connor McQuillan
February 8, 2022
- Hotwire
- Turbo
- ViewComponent
- Rails
Dynamic forms with Turbo

Fetch fresh fields from your servers with Turbo Frames.
Sean Doyle
February 2, 2022
- Turbo
- Rails
- Stimulus
- Hotwire
- Web
Dynamic forms with Stimulus

Progressively enhance your server-generated forms with Stimulus.
Sean Doyle
February 1, 2022
- Stimulus
- Rails
- Hotwire
- Web
Hotwire: Asynchronously loaded tooltips

Learn how to effectively render tooltips in Rails without writing any JavaScript.
Steve Polito
January 26, 2022
- Hotwire
- Rails
- Turbo
- CSS
A Standard Way to Lint your Views

Find out how to use erb-lint to lint your views, including using Standard to lint the Ruby code they contain.
Connor McQuillan
December 6, 2021
- ERB Lint
- Standard
- Rubocop
- Rails
- Ruby
Integration Testing with Capybara

Blend the speed of Rack::Test-driven Integration Tests with the power and utility of Capybara finders and assertions.
Sean Doyle
November 3, 2021
- Rails
- Testing
- HTTP
- HTML
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