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Hey, this week, I am bringing you Active Record tricks to find records with missing associations or with associated records only, and to negate your conditions.

Ever need a simple way to retry a block of code in ruby? Maybe you need a maximum number of retries? Exponential backoff? Different handling for different exceptions?

A complete and concise overview to help you create custom Rails Generators and avoid the speed bumps that might otherwise slow you down.

Ruby on Rails and ReactJS consulting company. We also build mobile applications using React Native

tweaking the parent resource parameter key

Rails 7 series | Rails 7.1 adds ActiveRecord::Base::normalizes.

If your company has distinct product and growth teams, I’m willing to bet you’ve seen or felt something about their relationship that doesn’t quite sit right with you. What you’re sensing is dysfunction. It might not be catastrophic levels of dysfunction, but make no mistake, it's impacting your product growth and probably taking casualties along the way, with people on the teams feeling frustrated and adversarial.

Learn 3 best ways to write easy to read, easy to debug and easy to modify SQL query

Working remotely may not seem like the sort of environment where burnout thrives, but it is. Learn about ways to avoid common pitfalls and lead a more balanced work life.

What does a complete cycle of planning and delivering on OKRs look like. Here's an example.

Chris has some tips for working with Ruby on Rails and ActiveRecord and using better SQL to improve performance and avoid N+1 queries.

In this post we're going to be looking at not one but two new exciting things coming to CSS, the...

If you don’t have time for introducing more significant changes, try implementing smaller yet powerful design patterns.

In my early days of coding I used to get quickly frustrated when my code didn't run. It felt like I...

An exclusive interview with the four researchers behind a new developer productivity framework: The three dimensions of DevEx

When saving computed values in the database in your rails app, you must be aware that is possible to find unexpected errors in the result thanks to race conditions. Here I want to help you visualize how race conditions can make you save incorrect...

This post explores how flog, a tool that analyzes the complexity of your code, can identify areas to refactor.

Improve Rails code by using these design patterns: Builder, Decorator, Form, Interactor, Observer, Policy, Presenter, Query, Service, Value

Taking a look at how to use a Common Table Expression in Active Record queries in Rails 7.1+

The contents of a <code>map</code> block should probably be an instance method on each item.

When discussing team organization, I am often asked: “Why don’t you have the tech lead manage the team?” My response is to hiss like a…

Discover the ins and outs of logging in Ruby, including how to customize your logs and use logging libraries like Lograge.

Creating recommendations with pgvector, ruby-openai, and the neighbor gem.

This article is a deep dive into blocks, procs, and lambdas that will help you to understand how these functions differ from each other.

Hi, this week I want to tell you about an improvement coming in Rails 7.1. When you are using the link_to helper, it can infer the URL from the object you are passing to it as the second parameter: