I’ve been using Ruby for over 11 years now and along the way I’ve discovered many favorite methods that I keep coming back to. Many of my favorites come from the Enumerable module. I love the simplici...

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I’ve been working heavily with RabbitMQ message broker infrastructure recently to coordinate events between two Rails applications. The event work involves maintaining synchronized data between specif...

Today, I learned that ActiveModel::Api is the minimal implementation for an object to act like a model. ActiveModel::Model was the standard prior to Rails 7. You can still use it but it implies additi...

I love to customize my development environment. Between operating system, editor, and terminal, I’m always reading through the configuration options to improve my workflow. Getting it to look pretty i...

Today, I learned that Rails 8 introduced a new ActionController::Parameters method called expect. This allows for cleaner and safer parameter permission and requiring. I must have just missed this in ...

Today I learned you can specify PostgreSQL functions within a Ruby on Rails migrations. I found this particularly useful for setting a random default value for a database column. Let’s dig into a simp...

Today I learned about the after function for scheduling side effects which avoid blocking execution. Think of it as a simple background job scheduler. These are much lighter than a database or Redis b...

I’ve been working with Prisma as an object-relational mapping tool for my projects. Coming from a background of using raw SQL along with ActiveRecord, I’ve noticed that default Prisma caters to JavaSc...

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So you’ve got a new Mac. Maybe it’s a work laptop, maybe you are switching from another operating system. Either way, if you’re like me, you’ve got some set habits with your work environment. This art...

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Large dataset migrations are always an adventure. A well factored data migration considers: Performance, Accuracy, Reversibility, and Repeatability. Each of these supports a successful data migration....