Blogs


Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly: a guide to full-stack in‑browser action—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Learn how to run a fully functional Ruby on Rails blog in your browser using WebAssembly—no servers needed; a complete guide to making Rails Wasm-readyImagine a fully functional blog running in your browser—not just the frontend, but the backend, ...


Rails (might be) Getting a Structured Event Reporting System (and It's Pretty Cool) | Prateek Codes - Learn Building Scalable Backend Systems
Most Rails developers have moved beyond the default string-based logging with gems like Lograge or Semantic Logger. But when it comes to tracking business events - user signups, order completions, feature usage - we’re still building custom soluti...


Simplicity, vanished?! Solving the mystery with Inertia.js + Rails—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Has simplicity gone missing in web development? This investigative piece uncovers how Inertia.js + Rails defy JavaScript bloat and reclaim developer sanity.The front-end development racket has been running the same con for years now. Walk into any...

RailsConf Nostalgia: Remembering ActiveResource | Hashrocket
This year at the final RailsConf, the atmosphere was incredibly nostalgic and celebratory, if perhaps a little bittersweet. Many of the talks spent time looking back on how far we've come, including Robby Russell's "The Rails Features We Loved, Lo...

Frontend Assets in Ruby on Rails Through the Years
As a Ruby on Rails developer at a consulting agency who works with a wide variety of legacy apps, there have been many times where I need to change the JavaScript or CSS in use on the site and have to start by figuring out where those assets are c...


TLDR is the best test runner for Claude Code | justin․searls․co
A couple years ago, Aaron and I had an idea for a satirical test runner that enforced fast feedback by giving up on running your tests after 1.8 seconds. It's called TLDR.
I kept pulling on the thread until TLDR could stand as a viable non-satiri...