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How to do multi-step forms in Rails – Code with Jason
Really good simple explanation of making a multi step form in Rails.
Author Archives: Pito Salas
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Facade Pattern in Rails for Performance and Maintainability | AppSignal Blog
Good explanation. Although I don’t know exactly what his difference is between a facade, a presenter and a service object.
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Integrated systems for integrated programmers – Signal v. Noise
Why microservices are so much worse than monoliths. Yes this is a self serving and self promotional article. But I think he is right.
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Monoliths are the future |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog
One in a series of why monoliths are better than microservices
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Test Double | Our Blog | Improving Dev Experience with Overmind
Foreman is now superseded by overmind, which is better and more awesome. Worth a look.
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Integrate Bootstrap 4 and Font Awesome 5 in Rails 6
This can always be a paining the butt. And now that Rails4 uses all this new and badly integrated package management stuff it gets worse. This is a helpful article.
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Smithsonian Open Access | Smithsonian Institution
Huge collection of images for your hacking pleasure!
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Please stop recommending Git Flow! – George Stocker
It’s always hard to handle branches. This was a very popular post when it came out.
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Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby.
There are many of these building blocks. Use this to mock a web service that your system depends on. That way you can test your system without incurring the costs (in money and time) of calling the service.
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Ruby on Rails Mistakes that could kill Your Production Servers
Specific good advice on rails performance and scale.
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Google Interviewing Process for Software Developer Role in 2020 / Habr
The madness of interviewing at google. OMG!
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A good list. I know every single one and would generally agree with it. Some books are too high in the list and some too low. But an excellent starting point.
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How to write Javascript in Rails 6 | Webpacker, Yarn and Sprockets
A good introduction to the very confusing combination of JavaScript, yarn, css, etc in rails 6. Hopefully they will clean this up in rails 7.
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This is an amazing tool when you need it. Do queries, merges, filters on json files. You only need it once or twice a year but when you need it, it’s a life saver!
