Akshay Khot

I run an independent software studio/agency specializing in Ruby on Rails. This blog is my attempt to spread the joy of programming in Ruby and building web apps in Rails with the world.

Victoria, BC

184 Articles

Turbo Drive Essentials

💡If you are interested in learning about Hotwire, check out my crash-course on Hotwire's Turbo framework. I spent the last night reading up

Hotwire 3 min read

Launching Multiple Processes with a Single Command in Rails

An application doesn’t exist in isolation. Usually, it depends on other processes to work correctly, such as a database, JavaScript / CSS compilers, Redis, etc.

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class_eval vs. instance_eval in Ruby

This post explains the difference between class_eval and instance_eval methods in Ruby. If you keep getting confused between them when reading or writing

Ruby Gems 3 min read

How to Setup Tailwind 3 on Rails

Update: Tailwind documentation has since added the installation steps with Rails. Even though the official Tailwind documentation has installation instructions for various client-side frameworks, it

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Couldn't Find Handler For: puma, thin, falcon, webrick

This morning, I was trying to learn Rack and how Rails uses it. So I created a new gem using the bundle gem command. Then

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All the Database Tasks in Rails

Once you start programming in Rails, you inevitably come across db:migrate, which applies the migration to your database. Then you make a mistake and

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How to Drop a Table in Rails

So you created a migration to add a table that you thought you were going to need. You also ran that migration so that table

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How to Debug Ruby Code

For a long time, I delayed learning Ruby as I didn’t know how to debug Ruby code. Coming from a .NET background, I was

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How to Test Rails Source Code

One of the best ways to understand any codebase is to read the tests, and Rails is no exception. In this post, we will learn

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Include and Extend

Here’s a neat trick I learned today. Typically, when a class includes a module, the module methods become instance methods on the including class.

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Modifying Objects in Place

Every time you create or copy something in memory, you add work for GC. Here are some tips from the book Ruby Performance Optimization to

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Class Metaprogramming in Ruby

A Ruby class definition is just regular code that runs. When you use the class keyword to create a class, you aren’t just dictating

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