Tiny Tips
Tips about Ruby on Rails, StimulusJS, Tailwind, Hotwire, and building
products
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Sorting ActiveRecord results by enum values (in SQL)
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Dynamic user content in Rails with Liquid tags
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Accessing Rails environment variables from a StimulusJS Controller
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Rails validations: database level check constraints
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Debugging slow Heroku builds
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Quickly explore your data with `uniq` and `tally`
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Improving your Rails mailers with `email_address_with_name`
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Building lightweight components with Rails Helpers and Stimulus
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Combine `redirect_to` and the `anchor` option
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Lazy-loading content with Turbo Frames and skeleton loader
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Use `to_sql` to see what query ActiveRecord will generate
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Prefer returning chainable ActiveRecord objects
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Rails validations: unique within a certain scope
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Boring breadcrumbs for Rails
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Sharing common code between Rails controllers with `Scoped` pattern
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Run different ActiveRecord validations based on context
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Find records missing an association with `where.missing`
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Testing multiple sessions in the same test with Capybara
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Pluck single values out of ActiveRecord models or Enumerables
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Never mix up greater/less than when comparing dates again
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Super readable String operations with `delete_prefix` and `delete_suffix`
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Setting CSS classes in Markdown with Jekyll / Bridgetown
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Use Heroku Dataclips to share query and do ad-hoc data exports
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Ensure required environment variables are set when booting up Rails
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Search and debug gems with `bundle open`
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Automatically cast params with the Rails Attributes API
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Show relevant chunks of text with Rails `excerpt` helper
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Use Rails `link_to_unless_current` for navigation links
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Use Rails `cycle` to avoid `i % 2 == 0` in your view loops
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Use the Rails helper `highlight` when showing search results