Blogs

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...
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[ANN] Rails 0.5.0: The end of vaporware! - ruby-talk - Ruby Mailing List Mirror
I’ve been talking (and hyping) Rails for so long that it’s all wierd to finally have it out in the open. Mind you, we’re still not talking about a 1.0 release, but the package currently on offer is still something I’m very comfortable to share wit...

Solving Docker Compatibility Issues with Kamal -- Planet Argon Blog
Modern deployment tools like Kamal promise simplicity, speed, and power—but what happens when you’re working with a legacy Ruby app that predates many of those tools?
We recently helped a client deploy a Ruby 2.2.2 application using Kamal—Basecam...

