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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
Speed up your Rack application with HTTP

You don’t need a sophisticated caching mechanism to improve your application’s performance. All you need is a basic understanding of the HTTP specification.
Steve Polito
August 31, 2023
- Rack
- Rack Tutorial
- Ruby
- Web
A pragmatic guide to building a Rack application from scratch

Learn how to build a production ready Rack application without a framework like Rails or Sinatra.
Steve Polito
August 22, 2023
- Rack
- Rack Tutorial
- Ruby
- Web
Superglue: digging into the framework details

Superglue creator Johny Ho answers a beginner’s questions about the new React+Rails framework.
Johny Ho and Dave Iverson
August 15, 2023
- React
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Web
Are you absolutely sure your Rails caching strategy isn't leaking sensitive information?

Rails writes a new cache entry based on the first request. But what happens when that request is from an admin?
Steve Polito
July 26, 2023
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
- Security
Building Value Objects in Rails with composed_of

Learn how to improve the interface of your existing Active Record Models with this underutilized API.
Steve Polito
July 20, 2023
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
- Active Record
- Good Code
Getting started with React on Rails

Let’s explore the benefits of using the React on Rails gem and how it can streamline your development process.
Sarah Lima
June 29, 2023
- Rails
- React
- Web
- Frontend
Avoid Putting Logic in Map Blocks

The contents of a map block should probably be an instance method on each item.
Joël Quenneville
May 26, 2023
- Web
- Ruby
- Domain Modeling
My introduction to Superglue: React ❤️ Rails

Join me on my first journey with this new library.
Dave Iverson
April 19, 2023
- React
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Web
Redux Toolkit is the official way to write Redux apps

An intro to Redux Toolkit.
Stephen Hanson and Will Larry
April 17, 2023
- Redux
- React
- JavaScript
- Frontend
- Web
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