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431 articlesOne of the most demanding tasks many students face is writing a thesis. The depth of research, clarity of argument, and academic rigor required can be...
For many learners, online classes bring flexibility but also additional challenges such as self-discipline, deadline awareness, and virtual engagement...
In today’s fast-paced education environment, students face multiple demands: managing online classes, completing detailed coursework, and writing rigo...
Forcing static typing into Ruby is like putting a manual transmission in a Tesla. New post on why Sorbet misses the point entirely.
I can’t remember the last time I had this much joy introducing such a simple class. Started with Ruby 3.4 deprecation warnings, ended with a solution ...
https://www.railscarma.com/blog/understanding-present-blank-nil-and-empty-in-ruby/
The ri command already splits the document into well-chunked sections so that coding agents can get the correct context accurately.
https://pearprogramming.blog/ruby/rails/activerecord/2025/10/30/a-matter-of-order/
What are they? What purpose do they serve? Why the hell do I need to know about this Rack thing? https://www.fastruby.io/blog/Middleware-in-Rails.html
The complete Ruby testing tutorial: understand fundamentals by building a test framework, then explore Minitest, RSpec, and Rack::Test with practical ...
https://www.carmatec.com/blog/understanding-rubys-redo-retry-break-and-next/
https://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2025/10/28/frozen-strings/
#773 — October 30, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future? — You’ll either have written or seen # frozen_stri...
As developers, there usually comes a time when we have to deal with syntax highlighting. Whether we’re building a blog, a CMS, a documentation site, o...
Hire top iOS app developers to turn your business ideas into successful mobile apps. Our iOS app development agency builds feature-rich, user-friendly...
https://jpcamara.com/2025/10/22/bitmasks-threads-and-interrupts-concurrent.html
The one where Rails 8.1.0 is released, where Ruby 3.3.10 is patched, where Scott Harvey launched Rails Pulse project and Brad Gessler launches Phlex o...
Need to switch from Ruby to SQL schema mid Rails project? Here’s how https://danielabaron.me/blog/from-ruby-to-sql-schema/
The ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘rest_framework’ is a common issue faced by developers working with Django REST Framework (DRF). This error t...
Because Rails developers don’t want to write JavaScript 👉 https://railsdesigner.com/announcing-attractive-js/
#772 — October 23, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly The Ruby Core Team Takes Ownership of the RubyGems Repo — After several weeks of confusion, the R...
https://rubyelders.com/writings/2025-10-ruby-butler-1.html
Say goodbye to messy service objects. CMDx provides a framework for designing complex business logic with clarity and consistency. https://drexed.gith...
bringing several new capabilities and a few breaking changes.
https://www.fastruby.io/blog/rails-event-notify.html
Sometimes you just need to quickly clear the cache when working in your development environment. Full snippet here: https://avohq.io/blog/quickly-clea...
Modern LLM providers can stream their responses. This is great for user experience — instead of a loading spinner, users see the response being genera...
I’m officially launching the Phlex on Rails video course at https://beautifulruby.com/articles/phlex-on-rails-launch. It’s 45 videos split up across 7...
I wanted to see what it would take to implement crypto payments in my app. With Coinbase Commerce, it’s surprisingly easy.
The one where Rails announced 8.1.0RC1, Hanami announced v2.3.beta2 and Ruby Core assumes stewardship for RubyGems and Bundler
If we have a site that publishes a considerable amount of content, we usually need to generate the assets that go with each piece of content. For exam...
In this post, we'll explore the internals of has_one_attached method in Active Storage. It covers two interesting patterns, i.e. proxy and change obje...
If you’re building a Ruby project without Rails and miss the convenience of bin/rails console, this post walks through how to set up a similar interac...
I reported a few weeks ago some discrimination that my girlfriend has experienced at a tech team, which is similar to discrimination I have experience...
Active Storage uses two main models: blobs and attachments. Blobs store the uploaded file's metadata and a link to the actual file, while attachments ...
Going through SOC 2 compliance for Humadroid made me realize there’s a gap in Rails security - between basic authentication and actually sleeping at n...
https://railsdesigner.com/introducing-perron/
#771 — October 16, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Lost in Minitest? Start Here! — I’m a big Minitest fan, but RSpec is still the most common testin...
We’ve compiled suggestions of specific exercises that will expose you to a wide range of examples that embody the most important concepts and prepare ...
Turbo and ActionCable make it easy to build real-time features in our apps. How do they work? This article attempts to demystify some of the inner wor...
Rails 8.1 is really leaning into running our CI pipelines locally. Here’s a bit of a rundown: https://www.fastruby.io/blog/rails-8-1-local-ci.html
Let’s explore how to render a preview of a component in Showcase for Rails: https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/10/15/render-a-component-preview-in-showca...
Lexxy is a new rich text editor for Rails Action Text, built on Meta’s Lexical framework. It adds cool features like easy Markdown support, real-time ...
This summer I made a Phlex on Rails video course outside, off the grid, so I wrote about it at https://beautifulruby.com/articles/portable-workstation...
Helping users navigate through our site with ease helps them reach their desired destination thus improving their experience within our application. B...
https://www.railscarma.com/blog/how-to-raise-and-rescue-exceptions-in-ruby/
The one where Falcon is powering Shopify at scale, where we find out about Herb Linter will support fix and where we found about Ruby 3.4.7 release.
Our beloved virtual intern, to whom we left our PRs in the hands of, just got up to speed.
This covers an interaction that happened after responding truthfully to “Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your Enemy”. I have covered multiple times the m...
