Over 2,000 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and workflows in their day to day development lives. From these responses we hope to get an understanding of where Rails stands as a framew... (more…)

Quickly start sending Slack messages from your Ruby on Rails backend without the need for any third party libraries! (more…)

(i will try to not repeat those from above) Why Rails? (i will be boring here) stable fast prototyping docs/community convention over configuration language - just write something in ruby and read it - it's hard to not understand the code, even for noob l... (more…)

Answer (1 of 3): Rails can be a very good platform for a React app. React apps generally interact with a server using RESTful requests with JSON bodies. A Rails app can be rapidly developed to support those requests. So the bootstrapping time for a new ap... (more…)

Service objects are a pattern that I believe should be part of Rails’ default. This extends the basic MVC model by introducing services to implement business... (more…)