Mock External Services in Rails with WebMock and Rack

Discover how to mock external services in Rails application using WebMock and Rack to simplify testing

Organizing ActiveRecord Models into a Tree Structure with the Ancestry Gem in Rails

This blog explains how to organize ActiveRecord models into a tree structure using the Ancestry gem in Rails to manage parent-child hierarchical structures. It covers the setup, features, and querying methods that make managing hierarchical data both simple and efficient.

Unleash the Power of Hotwire(Part 1): Supercharge Your Rails Apps with enhanced user experience

A detailed guide to Hotwire in Rails exploring turbo-drive, turbo-frames and turbo-streams. Learn how to build blazing-fast applications with real-time updates without full page reloads.

Rails Autoloading - Classic and Zeitwerk

Discover the evolution from Rails Classic autoloader to the dynamic Zeitwerk.

Using AWS S3 with Rails ActiveStorage for File Uploads

Guide to Setting Up AWS S3 Bucket for Rails Active Storage File Uploads

Guide to set up Gitlab CI for Rails tests

Learn to run rails test on Gitlab CI pipeline

Decluttering Translations in Rails Apps

Approaches for clean rails translation files as application grows

Using Pundit for authorization in Rails - recipes and best practices

Make better authorization for your application.

APIs supporting snake_case and camelCase with Rails

Supporting API conventions for client like reactjs can be quite tricky. This post talks about approach to make APIs accessible using snakecase or camelCase.

Working with Rails, Webpack and Heroku

Deploying a Rails app with Webpack asset management on Heroku can be tricky. However, Heroku provides lifecycle hooks on its NodeJs buildpack that will help make this easier.

New in ActiveRecord: #in_batches

Rails 5 has a new feature added to ActiveRecord that makes working with batch data much more efficient. The `Model.in_batches` function passes a batch of records wrapped inside an ActiveRecord collection.

Cake walk: Using bower with rails

Traditionally, Rails 3.x and above come with Sprockets and asset management functions. However, using a JavaScript or CSS library with Sprockets means we'd have to roll them into gems with a specific directory heirarchy. Instead, we can leverage Bower to handle that for us.

Form object validations in Rails 4

Interacting with complex web forms tends to become hairy pretty quickly. Using Form or Service objects to abstract out the complexity can help wrangle complexity. This post talks about how we use them to make code simpler.

Random Ruby tips from trenches #1

Setting up Emacs as Ruby development environment on OSX

How rails reloads your source code in development mode?

In this post, I will talk about how Rails 3.x reloads code in the development environment.

Isolate Namespace in Rails Engines - A hack in itself

Setting up Source Maps for CoffeeScript in Rails

Redefine rake routes to add your own custom tag in Rails

All you need to know about writing a mountable Rails Gem with rspec

Profile Ruby 2.0 apps using DTrace - part 2

Ruby 2.0 and above has in-built support for DTrace hooks. This lets us profile Ruby programs. In this post, I'll go into the details of the features of DTrace.

Rails Autoload Path

Profile Ruby 2.0 apps using DTrace - Part 1

Ruby 2.0 and above has in-built support for DTrace hooks. This lets us profile Ruby programs. In this post, I'll introduce DTrace and how to add DTrace probes to a Ruby program.

Using Backbone JS in multipage application

This post talks about using the Backbone library with a Rails backend, and goes through some challenges and gotchas encountered during the process.

Poor man's rspec mode for emacs

Bundler: Cleanup old unused gems

The kitchen sink libraries

The problem with kitchen sink libraries is feature creep. Sometimes all we need are small libraries that are easily readable.