A quick walkthrough on how to add Bootstrap 4 to an existing Ruby on Rails application. We'll use the bootstrap gem to manage the files and updates, and update the stylesheet and JavaScript manifestos. (more…)

Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub, released RedwoodJS, a new fullstack, edge-ready JavaScript web framework. Redwood is highly opinionated and integrates pre-determined back-end and front-end stacks. Redwood follows convention-over-configuration pr... (more…)

During this year I noticed 2 similar concurrency problems with my Ruby on Rails application and I solved them with distributed locks. I’m going to show you h... (more…)

The bar for reporting a bug to the Rails project can be pretty steep. You’re expected to carefully diagnose the problem, preferably propose a solution, include detailed reproduction steps, and all the other homework that makes it possible for a project li... (more…)

Class hierarchies can map to relational database tables in many ways. Active Record, for example, offers purely abstract classes, where the superclass doesn't persist any attributes, and single... (more…)