Blogs
Introducing Elephantshark, a tool to monitor Postgres network traffic - Neon
Elephantshark helps you monitor, understand and troubleshoot Postgres network traffic: that’s Postgres servers, clients, drivers and ORMs talking to Postgres servers, proxies and poolers.
Elephantshark sits between the two parties in a Postgres-p...
Rails Generator Authentication in API-only apps - Avo
Learn how to implement authentication in Rails API-only applications using generators. Step-by-step guide covering setup, configuration, and best practices for secure API authentication.API authentication approaches
There are many approaches we ca...
Rails Console-like Environment for a Plain Ruby Project · Daniela Baron
I've been working on a Ruby project without Rails. It's a CLI tool that simulates retirement drawdown strategies for Canadians (I'll write a future blog post with more details on that). While building it, I found myself missing the convenience of ...
The Complete Guide to Dev Containers in Ruby on Rails - RorVsWild
From basic setup to advanced MCP integration: using Dev Containers for portable development environments that eliminate "works on my machine" problemsDev Containers are a lightweight, semi-standardized way to provision robust development environme...
Building intelligent applications with Rails | SINAPTIA
While Python is often considered the primary language for AI, Ruby on Rails offers an effective and efficient approach to developing AI-powered applications. The most impactful AI solutions often come from applying proven AI to real-world problems...
Rails Decouples Trix From Action Text Into action_text-trix gem | Saeloun Blog
Action Text is a power-packed tool designed to build WYSIWYG editors for our Rails applications easily. Action Text brings rich text content and editing to Rails.
Trix
Trix is developed by Basecamp.
According to its official website:
Trix is an...
Exploring Active Agent, or can we build AI features the Rails way?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
In a fast-paced world with AI oozing out of every pore, frameworks and ecosystems must adjust quickly to rapidly evolving business demands. Everyone needs smart features in their apps. The easier it is to add AI-driven features to the project buil...
Rails on SQLite: exciting new ways to cause outages
This post was originally given as a talk for Friendly.rb. The slides are also available.
Between Litestack and the Rails 8 trifecta of Solid Cable, Solid Cache, and Solid Queue, it’s easier than ever to spin up a Rails app that doesn’t need a data...
Tenderlove Making - File preallocation on macOS in Ruby
I haven’t blogged in a while, so I figured I should do that. Jet lag has blessed me with some free time this morning, so I figured I would make some content in order to feed the AI bots.
I’ve been messing around with pre-allocating files on the fi...