Hanakai, and Hanami 3.0 in Full Bloom
Hanami, dry and rom have joined forces as Hanakai, a single family of Ruby tools. The first release under that banner is Hanami 3.0: built-in mailers and i18...
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Return Data, Not ActiveRecord Objects
Why returning plain data instead of models made some of my Rails code simpler, faster and easier to test.
Before Adding Elasticsearch, Find the Bottleneck
Years ago I added Elasticsearch to a Rails app and search got faster. I credited the search engine. Looking back, I’m not sure that was the lesson. Here is h...
Rails 8 Wants You to Own Your Stack
Rails 8 isn’t really a bag of new methods. Its headline is a stance: drop Redis, drop the PaaS, and run a real app from a single box you own — with the datab...
Five dry-rb Gems Worth Knowing
A short tour of five dry-rb gems I keep coming back to: validation, types, structs, configuration, and composable business logic. Small, focused libraries th...
Practical Service Objects in Ruby
Service objects keep business logic out of fat controllers and models. A handful of conventions (one entry point, a consistent return value, a simple constru...
Validating Plain Ruby Objects with ActiveModel
You don’t need a database table to get Rails-style validations. With ActiveModel you can validate plain Ruby objects (a contact form, a search form, an API p...
Full-Text Search in Rails with PostgreSQL
Before reaching for Elasticsearch, it’s worth knowing that PostgreSQL has capable full-text search built in. Here’s how to use it from a Rails app — tokenizi...
Hanami 2 Is Finally Full-Stack
Hanami 2 arrived in three acts: the app rewrite in 2.0, views in 2.1, and a full ROM-based database layer in 2.2. With that last piece, it’s a complete full-...
The Rails 7.1 Features I Actually Reach For
Rails 7.1 isn’t a headline release. It’s a pile of quality-of-life additions that quietly remove boilerplate you write all the time — normalizing attributes,...
Creating a deeply nested Hash in Ruby
Sometimes you’ll have to create a deeply nested hash without knowing how deep it can be at first. This hash should allow reading and setting values at any le...
Ruby one-liners for file manipulations
Most people using Ruby nowdays are using it for Rails. They often defined themselves has ‘Rails developers’, not ‘Ruby developers’. I’m an early adopter of R...