Tutorials
Building GitHub-style Hovercards with Stimulus and HTML-over-the-wire
Somewhere along the way toward our current JavaScript hellscape, programmers decided that HTML was over. We’re done with it.The emergence of tools like React shifted programmers away from writing HTML, instead writing JSX, a fancier tag-based mark...
How to Create Events in Google Calendar from Ruby On Rails Application?
In many cases, we need to create events in a calendar app from web applications. For example, create an appointment with Doctors or schedule service with plumbers.Google Calendar is the most used app for scheduling and it’s very popular among busi...
Spark Joy by Running Fewer Tests – Shopify Engineering
Developers write tests to ensure correctness and allow future changes to be made safely. However, as the number of features grows, so does the number of tests. Tests are a double-edged sword. On one hand, well-written ones catch bugs and maintain ...
I created the same app with Rails and no Javascript
Last year I wrote a blog post, “I created the same application with Rails and Javascript”, following a trend of posts where the author Sunil Sandhu did the same comparing a few frontend Javascript libraries.My approach in that blog post was using ...
Why you should avoid nested STI | ActiveRecord, Rails 6
Nested Single Table Inheritance doesn’t work well. Here’s what you must know to make it work or work around it. Initial specifications: a project owner creates a project and donors can contribute.Later, a little change was made to the specificatio...