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  1. Rails developers write some Rust: a review of Axum 0.6

    Is Rust Web yet? We used our Rails knowledge to try writing a Web application in Axum in two days.

    Mike Burns, Dimiter Petrov & George Kosmopoulos
    January 16, 2023
    • Web
    • Rust
  2. How to Fix Rails 6.1 'Initialization autoloaded the constants' Warning Messages

    Got autoloading during initialization warning messages in your Rails 6.1 app? It’s time to_prepare for the next version.

    Stefanni Brasil
    December 15, 2022
    • Rails Upgrade
    • Rails
    • Ruby
    • Web
  3. Time Zones and Rocket Ships

    Rocket launches show us that we can know that two future events will be simultaneous, or what the local time will be, but not both.

    Joël Quenneville
    December 6, 2022
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ruby
  4. Your flaky tests might be time dependent

    Time dependent tests are difficult to diagnose, and the symptoms don’t present themselves until it’s too late. This article will help you determine if your test suite is time dependent.

    Steve Polito
    December 5, 2022
    • Testing
    • Rails
    • Web
  5. What happens when you stop maintaining your Rails application?

    Here are the risks and common scenarios we see when a team doesn’t have a plan for ongoing maintenance for their Rails application. We also share how we support clients in these situations with our new, flexible, Rails Maintenance offering.

    Jeanine Soterwood
    November 21, 2022
    • Good Code
    • TDD
    • Testing
    • Rails
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    • Technical Debt
  6. Automate manual deployments with Git and binstubs

    Your team’s manual deployment process doesn’t have to be so manual. Here’s how we automated our team’s deployment process with a few lines of bash and basic Git knowledge.

    Steve Polito
    November 14, 2022
    • Git
    • Web
    • Shell
    • Automation
  7. Making changes safely at scale

    Move fast but don’t break things.

    Thom Carter
    November 3, 2022
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Rails
  8. Using a Dependency Graph to Visualize RSpec let

    A visual answer to the question “what data is created when I execute this test?”.

    Joël Quenneville
    October 3, 2022
    • Development
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Testing
  9. How to decide if Jamstack is the right choice for your MVP

    After tapping Jamstack for a few MVP builds, we’ve summarized considerations for your own product and some tips for digging into third party providers.

    Kelly Gebo and Jimmy Thigpen
    July 28, 2022
    • Product
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    • Web
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  10. Value Object Semantics in Ruby

    What is the correct behavior of hash, ==, eql? and equal? for value objects?

    Joël Quenneville
    July 18, 2022
    • Ruby
    • Good Code
    • Domain Modeling
    • Web
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