More detail on how the thoughtbot team built one of the first Alexa skills in Arabic, and what we learned about using Ruby on Rails to support the development of Alexa Skills in the process.
Adding site-wide configuration with a Rails model can be quite easy to do with Administrate.
Move fast but don’t break things.
A visual answer to the question “what data is created when I execute this test?”.
You probably use some type of error monitoring software to notify you when an exception is raised in your application, but are you being notified when there is an anomaly in user behavior?
How do you even save a “duration”, let alone query for records by that value? It’s actually easier than you think.
When is it best to reach for query objects and how can we best structure them?
Exploring how to use FactoryBot effectively with models backed by plain Ruby objects.
ActiveRecord provides a comprehensive interface for querying the database, but at what cost?
A little bit of my struggles with ENV files throughout the years, and hopefully a better solution.