Full Stack Ruby on Rails Weekly Bookmarks - #43

On-the-road version

Wisen Tanasa @ceilfors

We are making a trade-off in any architectural decisions we make. What we often forget is, the word trade-off, means you're deliberately accepting a disadvantage to gain an advantage. Don't call your decisions a trade-off if you're taking a negative sum decision.

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How to use Docker containers for Ruby on Rails development in Visual Studio Code

Introduction It has become common practice to use Docker and Docker compose when building...

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Jason Swett @JasonSwett

Some things you can do to get devs to write more tests: - Make local tests run quickly - Make CI build run quickly - Make test setup easy and convenient - Assign small, crisp work tasks that are easy to translate to test cases - Provide some exemplary test examples to follow

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Time-Series Data With Ruby on Rails and Postgres

Counting things can be tough. It’s a metric you need to show your users, but if you’re not careful at...

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Andrea 👨‍🍳 @ilrock__

🪄 30 Days of Hotwire tips! Keeping this here as container for all threads 👇

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Modeling business logic with ECS in Ruby | katafrakt's garden

Just my website. Some Elixir, some Ruby, some more exotic languages and general thoughts on tech.

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Shiva @_rshiva

Rails Patterns Part 3, Let's talk about the Facade Pattern - a powerful design pattern used to simplify the fat classes. It involves creating a simple interface to a larger system or set of objects, abstracting away its complexity and making it easier to use and test. #rails

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Understanding the Attribute Assignment API in Rails

In this post, we will explore the `AttributeAssignment` module in Rails, which allows you to set an object's attributes by...

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David @dcyoung_dev

How to use a `debounce` ⛹️‍♂️ function from `lodash` in a Stimulus controller. I've used this in a few places like adding auto-save functionality 💾 Remember to `yarn add lodash` 👌

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Learn how to handle flash messages with Hotwire

Learn to manage flash messages in Rails 7 with Hotwire. We will learn how to handle flash messages in Turbo...

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Sara Soueidan @SaraSoueidan

Finally an HTML element that maps to the `search` ARIA landmark role 🎉 html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grou… This is a very welcome addition to #HTML. I've been wishing for one since 2021 sarasoueidan.com/blog/in-quest-… I've got some updates to make. #a11y

Thomas Steiner @tomayac

🔍 There’s a new HTML tag called `<search>` that represents search semantics. This is good because it’s something that an ARIA landmark role exists for (`role="search"`), but that today can only be expressed with ARIA. A dedicated ele… https://t.co/0YwdJvqrXa

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CSS Nesting - Chrome Developers

One of our favorite CSS preprocessor features is now built into the language: nesting style rules.

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Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec

There are three core reasons to work on performance in web applications: 1. Speed (i.e. customer experience of latency) 2. Scalability ($ to host) 3. Stability (Resilient to fast changes in load) Not all business care about all 3 equally. Here's more detail about each:

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One problem that is now solved by CSS Subgrid

How to use CSS Subgrid to solve the problem around aligning content in different columns

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Rapid @Rapid_API

The HTTP PATCH method. When should you use it? - HTTP PATCH method - PATCH vs. PUT - Advantages of PATCH Thread 🧵👇

Kirill Shevchenko @kirill_shevch

The State Pattern is a design pattern that enables an object to change its behavior dynamically by transitioning between different internal states. Here is classic example with changing state of traffic light using 3 key components: State Interface, State and Context. 1/5 🧵

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How to benchmark your ruby gem

With a folder, some scripts, and some tools, you can make your ruby gem/code faster. Measure, improve and repeat.

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Greg Navis @gregnavis

💡 Ruby meta-programming: lazy accessors are simple to implement and more robust than lazy computations via ||= Meta-programming can be fun, productive, and helpful. Let's have a look at another example, including a bigger engineering lesson. ⬇️ Let's go!

Madza 👨‍💻⚡ @madzadev

5 Essential Coding Terms You Should Know 👨‍💻👩‍💻 1. KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid 2. YAGNI - You Aren't Gonna Need It 3. DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself 4. DTIIW - Don't Touch If It Works 5. SOC - Separation Of Concerns

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You Should Write Bad Code

How to embrace absurdity and unlock more creative coding

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Shiva @_rshiva

Suppose we have a forum thread and only users with the 'moderator' or 'admin' role are permitted to create posts within it. We can create a user policy object pattern to check if the user is an admin or moderator