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5by5 | Ruby on Rails Podcast 354: Rails Committer Heavy Hitter with Rafael França
Rafael França is a Principal Engineer at Shopify. He has been a member of the Rails Core team since 2012 and is the contributor with the most commits to the framework. He and Brittany discuss his confident release of Rails 6.1 and some hints for R...


Remote Ruby | Hotwire, Rails NEXT, and the DHH Stack™ with David Heinemeier Hansson
On today’s episode we welcome back DHH. We dive straight into talking about Hotwire, the “NEW MAGIC” that was developed by Basecamp. We also dig into what’s next for Rails (including what the next version will be!) as well as what DHH is exploring...




Test ALL your static pages in rails with one simple test
A great friend of mine (who also happens to be a great rails developer) once told me a great trick to increase your code coverage easily. You can just write a test to check if all your GET routes return a non-errored code.Indeed, the most importan...


Setting up Rails 6 and PostgreSQL on Windows using WSL and Ubuntu
During my first week as a Junior Software Engineer with the Orbit team, I had many things to do to get into the overall swing of things, and one of the most important tasks was getting our Rails application set up on my local machine.The only prob...

Building, Testing and Deploying AWS Lambda Functions in Ruby
Developing software can be challenging, but maintaining it is far more challenging. Maintenance includes software patches and server maintenance. In this post, we will focus on server management and maintenance.Traditionally, servers were on-premi...