The Simplest Static Site Generator
Sometimes, you want to build a simple HTML page and populate it with some data. You may have some JSON lying around and want to make a simple website to visu...
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(Ab)Using Single Table Inheritance to Refactor Fat Models
How to deal with a model that tries to do too much? Consider something like this:
Real-Time Command Line Applications with Action Cable and Thor
If you build a Rails application that has any kind of real-time feature, chances are you use Action Cable.
Processing images with ActiveStorage and Imgproxy
ActiveStorage has a nifty feature that allows you to serve variants of uploaded images. Think of a user uploading a profile image. You won’t need the full-si...
Load testing GraphQL with WRK
For performance testing wrk is one of my favorite tools. Whether you are trying to get a quick benchmark or building a performance test suite - it is fairly ...
CLI OAuth in Ruby
Have you ever used a command-line application that triggered an OAuth authentication flow to log you in and wondered how that works? For example, Google Clou...
Use GitHub Actions to find Outdated Dependencies
Keeping up with dependencies can be a pain. That is especially true if you build a tool that heavily relies on some library. If that library changes in a maj...
Pull Request Previews with Rails, Cloud Run, and GitHub Actions
If you work in a larger organization, chances are you have access to some sort of staging environment where you can preview work that is currently in progres...
Improve your Shell with FZF and Friends
If you spend lots of time in the terminal fuzzy searching can be an absolute game changer - at least it was for me. Tools like FZF, FZY, or Selecta allow you...
Fabulous FactoryBot - Complex factories for Rails
In my previous post about FactoryBot we learned how to use its various features to simplify creating test data. In this post, we’ll put that knowledge to the...