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  1. How to decide if Jamstack is the right choice for your MVP

    After tapping Jamstack for a few MVP builds, we’ve summarized considerations for your own product and some tips for digging into third party providers.

    Kelly Gebo and Jimmy Thigpen
    July 28, 2022
    • Product
    • Product Strategy
    • Web
    • Development
  2. Value Object Semantics in Ruby

    What is the correct behavior of hash, ==, eql? and equal? for value objects?

    Joël Quenneville
    July 18, 2022
    • Ruby
    • Good Code
    • Domain Modeling
    • Web
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Dynamic forms with Turbo

    Fetch fresh fields from your servers with Turbo Frames.

    Sean Doyle
    February 2, 2022
    • Turbo
    • Rails
    • Stimulus
    • Hotwire
    • Web
  7. Dynamic forms with Stimulus

    Progressively enhance your server-generated forms with Stimulus.

    Sean Doyle
    February 1, 2022
    • Stimulus
    • Rails
    • Hotwire
    • Web
  8. Ruby splat operator 🌟

    The Ruby splat operator is confusing and here is why…

    Sami Birnbaum
    January 17, 2022
    • Web
    • Programming
    • Ruby
  9. An Honest Look at Tailwind as an API for CSS

    Treat Tailwind as an API for CSS and avoid common pitfalls of utility-first CSS frameworks.

    Steven Neamonitakis
    January 7, 2022
    • Tailwind
    • CSS
    • Design
    • Web
  10. What technologies should I learn?

    What technologies do we recommend to early career web developers?

    Joël Quenneville
    November 18, 2021
    • Web
    • Ruby
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