A quick introduction to using ActionText in your Rails apps for editing and displaying rich text plus uploading files

Deploying Rails to production for the first time can be confusing and daunting. We'll walk through every step of the process and show you how to setup a production Rails server from scratch.

Ever wondered what the difference between Symbols and Strings were? Why would we use one over the other when most languages only have strings?

Linux server administration can be a pain. You can use cockpit to monitor your servers and keep an eye on long running processes like Sidekiq and Puma without having to SSH into your servers.

Learn how to enable the experimental new Just-in-time compiler for Ruby 2.6

Adding user avatars is pretty easy using Rails' ActiveStorage feature. We'll be using Devise in this example, but this applies to any user authentication system.

Learn how to link to the current page and add, remove, or modify params in the URL. This is handy for things like search or index pages with filters.

Deciding whether or not to have separate first and last name fields gets a bit confusing. Basecamp's recently released name_of_person gem shows you exactly how to handle this reliably and also stands as a fantastic example of how to build a concern

Pagy is 29x faster at pagination in their benchmarks which makes it an ultra fast and lightweight pagination library

Stripe webhooks are now required to be signed with your secret webhook key. We'll show you how to set them up in your Rails app today.