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Understanding How Rails Environments Work
This post covers the basics of environments in Rails, including what they are, how they work and why they're so important. We'll also take a look behind the scenes and dive into the Rails source code to learn exactly how they're implemented, exploring a few interesting "inquiry" classes in Rails.
January 24, 2024
Learn to Program Ruby with Me
Any topic, no matter how basic, can be made much more interesting if you dig deep enough, and we can always improve, grow, and extract more out of our education. This post announces a new tutorial on this blog where we'll learn to program in Ruby from the absolute basics. Hope you join me.
January 19, 2024
How to Process a Turbo Stream Response in JavaScript using Stimulus
It’s common to make HTTP fetch request to get some data from the server. It’s also convenient to update the HTML via Turbo Stream responses. What if you could combine the benefits of them both? This post shows you how to process Stream responses in JavaScript, without mucking around with the DOM.
January 15, 2024
The Rails Config File
You must have used a `~/.bashrc` or `~/.zshrc` file to configure your environment. Did you know Ruby on Rails has a `~/.railsrc` file that configures your Rails applications? Not only that, it lets you pre-configure the gems you want in all your Rails applications. This post shows how it works.
January 11, 2024
See Other After Destroy
This post explains why you should use the 303 See Other HTTP status after destroying a resource, instead of using 302 Redirect.
January 01, 2024
How to Remove Whitespace from a String in Ruby
Often, you want to sanitize a string variable by removing all leading and trailing whitespaces around it. This is usually needed when you receive the string input from a user or an external source. This post shows you how.
January 01, 2024
Annual Blog Review: 2023
Every year, I do a personal annual review. This year, I thought why not do the same for my blog, since it has become such an integral part of my life, both personal and professional. This post contains some of the highlights and a list of all the articles I wrote in 2023.
December 27, 2023
Enqueue Multiple Jobs Together with perform_all_later in Rails
Are you still looping over the list of jobs to enqueue them individually? This post explores the new `perform_all_later` method in Rails, which was introduced in Rails 7.1 and lets you enqueue multiple jobs together to reduce the round-trip to the job backend, like Redis or the database.
December 23, 2023
Nested Modules in Ruby
There are two different ways to define nested modules in Ruby. This post explains them both along with the differences between them and how to decide which one to use. We will also learn about the `Module.nesting` method, which returns the list of nesting for a module.
December 21, 2023
How to Read a File in Ruby
Reading a file is a simple yet common programming task that can be accomplished in a few different ways in Ruby. In this post, we're going to cover the basics of reading files in Ruby, including few different ways to open and read files, both in-memory and via streaming.
December 19, 2023
