Testing Readonly Models 🔗
I was working with a readonly model in Rails the other day and ran into an issue whilst testing it. Here's what I ran into and the solution I came up [...]
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Crafting Code: Building a Ruby Pattern Generator for a Crochet Circle 🔗
In my time as a developer, I have noticed that one of the most common ways my coworkers spend time coding outside of work is by developing little code [...]
Building a (Very) Simple Responsive Search with Rails & Stimulus 🔗
Here's a simple and responsive search form I put together for a recent side project, using Hotwire's Stimulus framework and Rails with Turbo. The Form [...]
Creating a Custom Mobile Integration for a Board Game Using Ruby on Rails 🔗
Picture this: you find a charming old board game at a garage sale, bring it home, gather some friends—and snap. The 50-year-old plastic components bre [...]
Why Ruby is the Best Language for Advent of Code 🔗
It's the most wonderful time of the year - Christmas Advent of Code time! Advent of Code is an Advent Calendar style series of programming puzzles put [...]
How To Rev Up Your Rails Development with MCP 🔗
Shipping new features on legacy Rails applications requires deep codebase context. The rails-mcp-server gem closes the gap between AI agents and your [...]
Building a MCP Server in Elixir 🔗
We’ve been working with MCP servers for a while, and this use case was a perfect opportunity to build out another one. What is an MCP Server? A very [...]
Speed Up Your Rails App by Squashing N+1 Queries 🔗
N+1 queries are one of the most common performance killers in Rails apps, but also one of the easiest to fix. In this post, we'll see how a single lin [...]
Some Thoughts About Claude Code 🔗
Claude code is a powerful AI toolset that runs right in your terminal. While providing a lot of impressive utility, it also suffers from the issues th [...]
Nativewind: Speeding up Styling in React Native 🔗
How Nativewind can speed up your React Native Development If you're anything like me, after working on a few web projects with Tailwind, it can feel l [...]