Useful Ruby Gems Although Rails provides great defaults out-of-the-box, you can easily extend it with Ruby gems. Here are some gems that I find myself using every time
How to Access Route Helpers from Rails Console and Models This post shows a simple way to check the output of URL and path helpers directly from the Rails console. We will also see how to access these helpers in your models.
Why Turbo Uses Event Capturing 💡If you are interested in learning about Hotwire, check out my crash-course on Hotwire's Turbo framework. I was reading the source of the
Why Choose `let` Over instance variables in RSpec Repetitive setup code in tests makes it difficult to refactor the tests. It also distracts and shifts our focus from the business logic that we’
Inline Edits using Turbo Frames This post explains how to use Turbo Frames to make your web application behave like a Single-Page Application without using any JavaScript.
Turbo Drive Essentials 💡If you are interested in learning about Hotwire, check out my crash-course on Hotwire's Turbo framework. I spent the last night reading up
Launching Multiple Processes with a Single Command in Rails An application doesn’t exist in isolation. Usually, it depends on other processes to work correctly, such as a database, JavaScript / CSS compilers, Redis, etc.
class_eval vs. instance_eval in Ruby This post explains the difference between class_eval and instance_eval methods in Ruby. If you keep getting confused between them when reading or writing
How to Setup Tailwind 3 on Rails Update: Tailwind documentation has since added the installation steps with Rails. Even though the official Tailwind documentation has installation instructions for various client-side frameworks, it
Couldn't Find Handler For: puma, thin, falcon, webrick This morning, I was trying to learn Rack and how Rails uses it. So I created a new gem using the bundle gem command. Then
All the Database Tasks in Rails Once you start programming in Rails, you inevitably come across db:migrate, which applies the migration to your database. Then you make a mistake and
How to Drop a Table in Rails So you created a migration to add a table that you thought you were going to need. You also ran that migration so that table
