Ruby on Rails End of Life: Rails 6.1 EOL, Rails 7.0 EOL — What's Still Supported in 2026
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SOLID Principles in Ruby on Rails
SOLID Principles in Ruby on Rails SOLID is not a Rails or Ruby concept. It's a set of five object-oriented design principles that apply to any languag…
TIL 5/27/2026
Spin up from FirstDraft Co-pilot. It's been a while since I've done this, so I'll outline the process. Include devise gem on gemfile bundle install de…
🇺🇸 Glancer — Ask your Rails database questions in plain language
A Rails engine that allows you to query the database using natural language, with RAG and LLMs. No need to write any code. Every Rails project reaches…
Testing Turbo Frames in Rails Without a Browser
Turbo Frames are a great way to build interactive pages without writing custom JavaScript. But how do you test them properly? You can reach for system…
TIL 5/22/2026
Rails X XCode Tips When reading commands from a textbook, the \ in the command instruction line is usually just a line continuation in instructions. I…
Why flag_shih_tzu is changing its default SQL for bit flags
flag_shih_tzu stores many boolean attributes in one integer column. Each boolean gets one bit 〰️ well that used to be true 〰️ v1.0.0 supports multi-bi…
I will continue using Devise with Rails 8!
I am developing a boilerplate called SuperRails. Super Rails | Rails Boilerplate for Solopreneurs A production-ready Rails boilerplate with Devise, Av…
Why Rails 8 is the Only Choice for the Modern Solopreneur
In the world of startups, there is a dangerous myth. People think that to build a "real" application, you need a team of five: a frontend expert, a ba…
The Icon Component I Keep Carrying
Nearly every project I've worked on has, at some point, had to answer the question of inlining SVGs into HTML. I've been refining my approach to this …
Ruby on Rails to App Store, No Swift Required
I always liked tracking my income and expenses. There was an app called Spendee that I used a lot. I liked it. But it felt too complicated for me, so …
Build a Secure API with Rails 8 - Part-2: Authentication Foundations
Hey folks 👋 Welcome back. In Part 1 we walked through the 11 attack vectors that shape every decision in this series. If you skipped it, please go rea…
grep Said 1,202. The Real Answer Was 10. — Introducing colref
When deleting a database column, I ran grep "\.html\b" across a Django codebase to check for references. It returned 1,202 hits. The column had 10 act…
Set-Based Updates in Rails: 4 Hours to 8 Seconds
I once inherited a background job to deactivate stale users. In production, a job processing 50,000 users that should have taken a minute was taking o…
Stop Leaking API Keys: Managing Secrets in Kamal 2
I see developers make a mistake that can ruin their entire month. They are building a new Rails SaaS. They get their Stripe secret key, their OpenAI k…
Row-Level Multitenancy in Rails: Building a Bulletproof Tenant Isolation Layer from Scratch
If you've reached for acts_as_tenant or apartment without really understanding what's happening underneath, this tutorial is the correction. We're bui…
Connecting a Biometric Fingerprint Device to a Rails Web App Using Python — A Complete Walkthrough
👋 Introduction When I was building a gym management system for a real gym in New Delhi, one of the most interesting challenges was connecting a physic…
Build a Secure API with Rails 8 - Part-1
Hi folks👋! In this post I want to share something I wish I had when I started building APIs with Ruby on Rails: a practical guide that takes security …
Self Referential Associations in Rails - simpler than it sounds
Tbh I had no idea this was even a thing until recently. I've been working with Rails for a while now and somehow never came across it. So let me expla…