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Rails provides convenient built-in Time and Date formats that allow developers to work efficiently. While these default formats serve most applications well, there are i...
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Love them or hate them, I find callbacks are like strapping a supercharger to Ruby on Rails apps. With sprinklings of these throughout your app, you can automate quite a...
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If you've ever been in the somewhat exhausting position of choosing a web framework for your next project, you know it's a pivotal decision.
In this blog post, I will...
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For nearly every meaningful project I've taken on, there's always been a landing page first to help me market and semi-validate an idea.
Tons of tools exist to captur...
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In this guide, my goal is to help you showcase the popularity of blog posts by adding real-time likes as a polymorphic feature to your Rails app using [hotwired.dev](htt...
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A Comprehensive Guide to Essential String Helper Methods
When optimizing your Ruby on Rails development process, leveraging string helper methods can significantly ...
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As a designer who stumbled into Ruby on Rails, I always look for more opportunities to simplify, bringing better design to the framework. I’m working on a new project ca...
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Ruby on Rails, commonly referred to as Rails, is a popular and powerful web application framework written in Ruby programming language. Its simplicity, efficiency, and e...
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In Ruby on Rails, sending emails is a common task for applications. However, during development, it's essential to avoid accidentally sending real emails to users. Thi...
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If you've used Rails for a length of time you've likely gotten an error of this type: "Address already in use - bind(2) (Errno::EADDRINUSE)"
Running multiple instance...
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Welcome to another edition of my Hotwire and Rails series, where I take you through a journey of creating old con...
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A modern course designed to help you start using and understanding Ruby on Rails fast.
Save time and headache designing views, scaffolds, components, and making tough design decisions with the help of Rails UI.