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Upgrading to Rails 7: Moving away from Webpacker

Webpacker was retired for Rails 7. Let’s explore some options for replacing it when making an upgrade.
Marina Joranhezon
April 12, 2023
- Rails Upgrade
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
- JavaScript
- Learning
In relentless pursuit of some parts of REST

If we want clients to create small controllers and use resources in their routes, it’s a good idea to know why. This is a refresher of Derek Prior’s advice from Railsconf 2017.
Fritz Meissner
March 20, 2023
- REST
- Routes
- Controllers
- Rails
- Web
Building Templated Emails with MJML

Writing and previewing dynamic content in HTML emails with MJML’s secret feature.
Dave Iverson
February 15, 2023
- Email
- MJML
- JavaScript
- Web
How to stub Feature Flags with RSpec

Are your feature flags states leaking between your test cases? Stub them all to make your test suite more reliable. Here’s how.
Stefanni Brasil and Elias Rodrigues
February 3, 2023
- Testing
- RSpec
- Rails
- Web
Custom React Hooks and When to Use Them

Custom hooks are one of the most underused React abstractions. Let’s explore when it makes sense to use them compared to other abstractions.
Stephen Hanson
January 31, 2023
- React
- JavaScript
- Web
Rails developers write some Rust: a review of Axum 0.6

Is Rust Web yet? We used our Rails knowledge to try writing a Web application in Axum in two days.
Mike Burns, Dimiter Petrov & George Kosmopoulos
January 16, 2023
- Web
- Rust
How to Fix Rails 6.1 'Initialization autoloaded the constants' Warning Messages

Got autoloading during initialization warning messages in your Rails 6.1 app? It’s time to_prepare for the next version.
Stefanni Brasil
December 15, 2022
- Rails Upgrade
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Time Zones and Rocket Ships

Rocket launches show us that we can know that two future events will be simultaneous, or what the local time will be, but not both.
Joël Quenneville
December 6, 2022
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
Your flaky tests might be time dependent

Time dependent tests are difficult to diagnose, and the symptoms don’t present themselves until it’s too late. This article will help you determine if your test suite is time dependent.
Steve Polito
December 5, 2022
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
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
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