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Recently for RelationKit.io I wanted to build a system to help show other users on the same account if another person is on the same page as them to avoid embarrassing duplicate replies on support tickets. While thinking about how to build this, I wondered if I could use Turbo to build it without any custom JavaScript and the answer is a resounding yes.

Building out a basic Ruby API client using the http gem, tested with webmock.

Choosing the right web framework for your project is a crucial decision. In this article, we'll take a look at Ruby on Rails and three pros and cons for the framework from a developer's perspective.

How to plan and execute the refactoring of you Ruby application

Career changers have a lot more to offer than meets the eye—especially in tech!

Syntactical sugar to avoid comparison operators

How I used artificial intelligence and async programming to transform interesting conversations into blog posts.

Introduction Hey there, fellow web adventurers! 😄 Building web applications can be a wild...

Here’s an important distinction to make in life.

This is an updated version of the post I wrote about MRKS in the past.

Introduction Postgres queue tech is a thing of beauty, but far from mainstream. Its relative obscurity is partially attributable to the cargo cult of “scale”. The scalability cult has decreed that there are several queue technologies with greater “scalability” than Postgres, and for that reason alone, Postgres isn’t suitably scalable for anyone’s queueing needs. The cult of scalability would rather we build applications that scale beyond our wildest dreams than ones that solve real problems beyond our wildest dreams.

This week I want to tell you about the form_with Rails helper. It was introduced in Rails 5.1, and the goal of this helper was to unify the form_for and the form_tag helpers. form_for requires a model instance or a scope and puts the attributes into a hash, so usually when you needed a form in the past where you didn’t want to put them scoped into a hash, you used form_tag.

This article explores a dynamic nav component I built using the current_page? helper method, plus Rails' conditional class helpers. The result? A simple, dynamic navbar component, with different styling based on current page. Plus I threw in the ViewComponent version too 😉

A first look at Strada, the last missing piece of Hotwire. Let's explore how it unlocks native components driven by the web in Turbo Native apps.

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In this article, I break down the difference between system specs and feature specs in RSpec and Rails, and walk you through refactoring your feature specs to system specs.

Better Specs is a collection of best practices developers learned while testing apps that you can use to improve your coding skills, or simply for inspiration.

Within almost 15 years of our history we collected a quite vast collection of tools and techniques that help us to provide the best performance to our clients projects.

Optimize your Ruby on Rails application's performance by identifying and rectifying missing or inefficient Postgresql indexes through insightful SQL queries.

Kyle Keesling is an Indianapolis-based Ruby on Rails developer. He enjoys coding, cargo bikes, and playing hurling.

In this series of articles, we will share our experience with adding Packwerk to a large, fast-growing codebase.

Instead of leaning into heavy social sharing widgets, you can create a truly user-friendly social sharing component that works for everyone, using built-in APIs and progressive enhancement.

Learn how to scale large postgres tables in place and increase query performance.

Turns out the question of which identifier to use as a Primary Key is complicated -- we're going to dive into some of the complexity and inherent trade-offs, and figure things out

We often think of shadows in CSS as something to reach for when we want to add depth to a design. But shadows can be used for more than depth. Let’s experiment with different shadows — two CSS properties and a filter — to make interesting hover effects, different text styles, and even casting shadows on other shadows.