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Introducing the Noisy Animals kata

The Noisy Animals kata is designed to help developers think about the process of improving bad code.
Fritz Meissner
January 24, 2025
- Refactoring
- Ruby
Superglue 1.0: React ❤️ Rails. A new era of thoughtfulness

Superglue 1.0 is released! Learn about pairing Rails and React and why being thoughtful matters.
Johny Ho
January 15, 2025
- Ruby
- Web
- Ruby On Rails
- React
- Redux
- JavaScript
- Hotwire
- Stimulus
- Turbo
How to infer the form method for custom objects in Rails

Automatically infer the correct HTTP verb in your Rails forms by defining the persisted? method.
Joël Quenneville
January 15, 2025
- Development
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
Zero-downtime with Rails credentials part II

Transitioning the codebase from using environment variables to Rails Credentials for Zero-Downtime Deploys.
Sami Birnbaum and Valeria Graffeo
December 18, 2024
Testing SQL queries in a Ruby service

An epic journey of facing MSSQL and missing Rails.
Sally Hall
December 16, 2024
- SQL
- Testing
- Stories
- Ruby
- Web
Why should I avoid regular expressions?

Regular expressions are wondrous, but they’re ill-suited for many tasks; parsers are often more reliable.
Summer ☀️
December 13, 2024
- Regex
- Ruby
- Security
- Web
Automating barcode scanner tests with Capybara

Implementing barcode scanner tests using Capybara.
Nick Charlton and Silumesii Maboshe
November 26, 2024
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Process slow network requests with Turbo and Active Model

Learn how to build a dynamic loading screen without writing a line of JavaScript.
Steve Polito
November 20, 2024
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
- Hotwire
Zero-downtime with Rails credentials

Transitioning the codebase from using environment variables to Rails Credentials for Zero-Downtime Deploys.
Sami Birnbaum and Valeria Graffeo
November 14, 2024
Build a (better) search form in Rails with Active Model

Harness the power of Active Model to supercharge your search forms.
Steve Polito
October 17, 2024
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
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