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Can Auto-Playing Videos be Accessible?

Let’s find out by following a step-by-step approach to address the accessibility requirements of auto-playing videos.
Andrew Spencer
March 6, 2024
- Accessibility
- HTML
- CSS
- Web
Rails advanced routing constraints

Learn how to authorize requests at the routing layer to improve security and ergonomics.
Steve Polito
January 25, 2024
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
- Security
- Routes
Introducing Superglue: React ❤️ Rails

We’ve built Superglue, a framework that makes Rails and React as productive as Rails, Hotwire, Turbo, and Stimulus.
Johny Ho
January 4, 2024
- Ruby
- Web
- Ruby On Rails
- React
- Redux
- JavaScript
Are your polymorphic relationships correctly enforced?

Learn how to strike a balance between flexibility and data integrity with a partial index and validations.
Steve Polito
December 1, 2023
- Web
- Rails
- PostgreSQL
- Active Record
Ruby HTML Sanitization with Loofah

Need to do some HTML sanitization, but Rails ActionView Sanitize Helpers are not good enough? Read this post to learn how to do it with Loofah.
Stefanni Brasil
November 24, 2023
- Ruby
- Web
- Development
Sharing Query Logic Within ActiveRecord Models

Re-use collection query logic within model instances to avoid duplication and get the best performance.
Chris Toomey
November 22, 2023
- Rails
- SQL
- Web
What's a counter cache?

Running a separate query to count how many records are associated with another record is inefficient. Using a counter cache can save the day!
Jose Blanco
November 21, 2023
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
- Active Record
- Good Code
Database View Backed Scopes In Rails

How do you manage queries when your Rails application isn’t the only thing reading your database?
Steve Polito
November 20, 2023
- Rails
- Web
- PostgreSQL
Are you absolutely sure you know how to use the button element?

Read this the next time you need to build a complicated form.
Steve Polito
October 31, 2023
- Rails
- Web
A Peek Behind the Curtain of Our New Open Source Page

How did we build the new Open Source page?
Joël Quenneville and Neil Carvalho
September 4, 2023
- Ruby
- Open Source
- Web
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