Many of the most common ActiveRecord idioms produce SQL which doesn't scale well as your dataset gets larger. In this article I discuss three of the worst of...

Are folks upgrading to Rails 5? Where is the Postgres vs. MySQL battle heading? Are devs embracing Puma and concurrency? The results of the State of the 2017 Rails Stack by Scout.

Sorry for the long delay, but the SQL Server adapter is now Rails 5 ready. This includes support for the latest SQL Server on Linux. Tons of Rails 5 work is coming including better contributor Docker support, schema dumping, JSON type support, and more.

Part one of a three-part series for building a RESTful JSON API with Ruby on Rails.

Rails 5 now makes it a piece of cake to get started writing an API-only application. In this post, well go through what to do in the first 5 minutes working on your Rails-based API.

We’re happy to announce Rails 5.1.0.rc1 has been released. With the help of the community we polished the Rails 5.1release with more than 380 commits.

Part two of a three-part series for building a RESTful JSON API with Ruby on Rails.

With Ruby on Rails 5.1.0 RC1 out now, its official release is probably right around the corner. In efforts to clean up some of the code base, some methods have been deprecated. If you have been kee…

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A simple guide to switch from Sprockets to Webpacker

The Pwned Passwords API can tell you if a password has been seen in a data breach before. Use it in your Ruby application to encourage better passwords.

Dokku is dev ops for dummies and a cheaper alternative to Heroku. Recently I've migrated a couple of my projects to it. In this blog post, I will describe how to setup and migrate a Rails app to Dokku with PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, Redis and Let's Encrypt or Cloudflare…

Learn best practices for building sustainable web apps with behavior-driven development.

Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby. It takes an opinionated approach to application development, assuming that set conventions will best se…