Full Stack Ruby on Rails Weekly Bookmarks - #40

Slightly combined

jhey 🔨🐻✨ @jh3yy

Future UI && CSS Tip! 🔮 Use anchor positioning to tether an element to multiple anchors 🤓 .link { left: anchor(--a1 center); bottom: anchor(--a2 center); } With some "magic", you could define links and let the browser draw them for you🔥 @CodePen link && expl. below! 👇

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5 super useful CSS properties that don't get enough attention

🎓 Start writing CSS with more confidence with one of my courses: https://kevinpowell.co/courses🔗 Links✅ Full list of filter effects: https://developer.mozi......

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Greg Navis @gregnavis

💡 Ruby tip: when defining methods, it's easy to teach Ruby to tell the difference between - no argument passed - argument equal to the default value passed ⬇️ Code speaks louder than words, so let's jump right in! First, an example motivating the whole thread ...

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Questionable new ways of running a retrospective

My team’s Managing Director and advisor on the project I’m working on, Kirsten, has noticed how reluctant I am in...

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Andrea 👨‍🍳 @ilrock__

🌶️ Hotwire tips 4/30 🪄 JS-less modals One of the most common use-cases that I would always use JS for are modals. I would create a simple stimulus modal controller and use that across my app. We can now go js-less using turbo frames 🖼️ This is how you can get it done 👇

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Introduction of Rails Engine with basic example.

What is RailsEngine? A Rails engine is a self-contained piece of functionality that can be...

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Tobias_Petry.sql @tobias_petry

⚡️ Database Tip Did you know there are alternative ways of storing trees in a database with simplified querying and much easier tree management? Materialized paths are easier to query than parent_id relationships and easier to update than nested sets. sqlfordevs.com/tree-as-materi…

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Storing Ephemeral UI State with Kredis for Rails | AppSignal Blog

Let's dive into how Kredis works and how you can use it to store short-term UI state.

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Nate Hopkins @hopsoft

If you properly design the Rails' ActiveRecord model layer (relationships, scopes, etc...) so many things in your application will become much simpler.

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Stop using eager loading in your Rails application; use this instead.

It’s a popular internet recommendation to use eager loading in Ruby on Rails applications to eliminate the N+1 query problem....Making the Most of Your Logs in Rails | AppSignal Blog

It's easy to get going with logging with Rails, but not so easy to master it. Discover how you can...Making the Most of Your Logs in Rails | AppSignal Blog

It's easy to get going with logging with Rails, but not so easy to master it. Discover how you can...

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Jess Brown @bjessbrown

In #rails, you know about .find_each when looping through a large set of records, but did you know about in_batches? TIL:

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Making the Most of Your Logs in Rails | AppSignal Blog

It's easy to get going with logging with Rails, but not so easy to master it. Discover how you can...

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Chris Oliver @excid3

Does anyone else struggle with the "-able" naming for polymorphic relationships like "notifiable"? I'd rather it was just "belongs_to :record, polymorphic: true". Makes my brain work less this way.

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Remote Synthesis | The Price Developers Pay for Loving Their Tools Too Much

Developers are passionate about their tools - sometimes to a fault. There is value in being open to change and...

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Kirill Shevchenko @kirill_shevch

Factory Method is a specialization of the Template Method pattern that combines different classes with common functionality. Each class responds to the same method, but each has a different implementation. Also, this is a good illustration of the SOLID open/closed principle.

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A Guide to PostgreSQL Views

Understanding PostgreSQL views and materialized views is essential to fully grasp one of the most popular features in Timescale that...

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Andrea 👨‍🍳 @ilrock__

🌶️ Hotwire tip 10/30 🪄 Multi-step forms These have always been a bit fussy to work with. The biggest challenge is always around handling partial form validation without saving a record to the db. My favourite approach comes from @JasonSwett . Let's build it with hotwire 👇

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Configuring Rails Environments

Despite its strong opinions and powerful conventions, Rails is a highly flexible and configurable framework. If you don’t like something,...

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Steve Polito @stevepolitodsgn

📢 Informal Poll Based on the screenshots below, what CSS framework (if any) do you think I used for these sites? - Tailwind - Bootstrap - Semantic UI - No framework (Custom CSS)