Learn how to normalize all ActiveRecord attributes with a quick peak at the Rails source code.

Learn how to dynamically render Rails partials using standard Rails behavior and model_name.plural when needed to clean up messy if/else conditionals in your views.

Optional attributes are empty strings by default, but we can clean these up as nil in Rails using normalizes

Learn how to use validation contexts in Rails to conditionally validate models - like saving drafts without validation but requiring them when publishing.

A peek into the Domain Monitor SaaS product that we'll be building in this series with Rails, Stripe, Solid Queue, and Kamal.

Rails 8.1 introduces a new Markdown MIME Type and renderer to better integrate your apps with AI and other tools that use Markdown

Using extend self inside a Ruby module makes all of its instance methods callable directly on the module itself, which is useful when you want a collection of utility-style methods without needing to instantiate an object.

Let's look at how we can easily deploy a Rails 8 application using the solid trifecta of gems with Hatchbox.

Rails 8.1 introduced a local CI setup and run script that allows you to leverage the power of your local system to run a series of steps and optionally integrate with GitHub to sign off on pull requests that have a successful CI run.

In this episode, we will be looking at pattern matching in Ruby which lets you check the structure of data and save parts of it into variables.