Real-Time Rails Without Turbo: Modern Reactive UIs with Inertia and DexieCable
Hotwire and Turbo Streams have become the default answer for real-time applications in the Rails ecosystem. They are great for HTML-over-the-wire setu…
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Ruby Reactor vs dry-transaction vs Trailblazer: Choosing a Ruby Workflow Library in 2026
Four ways to orchestrate business logic in Ruby. One map to find yours. You're building something that involves multiple steps. Charge a card, send an…
24 Days of Coding: An 86-Hour Roadmap from Truck Driver to Web Engineer
1. Introduction Hello from Japan! 🇯🇵 I am an active truck driver in Japan self-studying Python and Web technologies, leveraging my logistics domain kn…
Solid Queue has no alerting, so I built QueuePulse
Rails 8 made Solid Queue the default Active Job backend, and it's excellent: database-backed, no Redis, and Mission Control Jobs gives you a dashboard…
Your next model upgrade won't close this gap
There's a comfortable thing people say when they see an AI agent query a code map. "Nice crutch. For now." The logic underneath it is reasonable. Codi…
Design Patterns in Ruby #2: Observer Pattern
Applications often need to react when something changes. When a user signs up, you might want to: Send a welcome email Create a user profile Log the a…
Choosing the Right Backend Framework: Django vs. Gin vs. Ruby on Rails.
Every application we use today—from banking apps to social media platforms—has something working behind the scenes. That hidden engine is called the b…
GitHub Copilot Is Rewriting How You Think About Database Design — And Not in a Good Way
You're staring at a Rails schema with 47 tables. The foreign key relationships are a bowl of spaghetti — timestamps everywhere, no documentation, and …
The Fastest Query Is the One You Never Run: The Four Layers of Rails Caching
Rails Performance: Lessons from Production — #4 The first three posts were about making queries cheaper — fewer N+1s, indexes, not dragging data back …
Moving to baweaver.com
I've started moving all of my content over to baweaver.com powered by Bridgetown under github.com/baweaver/portfolio. Why? I wanted more control of my…
Pro File Uploads in Rails 8: Speed and Scalability with Direct Uploads
Imagine a user trying to upload a 100MB video or a high-resolution photo to your app. If you use the standard Rails file upload, that file travels fro…
What it actually costs to run a one-Rails-app SaaS per month
Founders coding with AI tend to land in the same place. The first version is a $200/month no-code stack: a page builder, a chatbot, an auth gate, a wo…
The webhook inbox pattern: stop writing this controller by hand
Every Rails app that takes Stripe webhooks has some version of this controller: def create payload = request . body . read sig_header = request . env …
The Silent Performance Killer in Rails: Understanding and Fixing N+1 Queries
If you've ever investigated a slow Rails endpoint, chances are you've encountered one of the most common performance problems in the Rails ecosystem: …
Giving an AI Agent Write Access to Your App: Guardrails We Built for RobinReach's MCP Tools
A few months ago I wrote about building a production MCP server in Rails , the plumbing of exposing RobinReach's API as a set of MCP tools that Claude…
Rails Performance Optimization: Fixing N+1 Queries with includes, preload, and eager_load
Originally published on Hashnode: https://railswithyashika.hashnode.dev/rails-performance-n-plus-one-queries When working with associations in Rails, …
I’m Blown Away by Kamal
My Previous Deployment Choices Since I mostly do web development using Ruby on Rails, these were my go-to options for deployment: PaaS like Heroku, Re…
🇺🇸 3 Essential Gems to Eliminate Friction in Your Rails Workflow
Anyone who works with Ruby on Rails knows that, despite the framework being incredible for productivity, there are some classic workflow deficiencies …
How to Pause and Resume Ruby Workflows Mid-Flight
Ruby Reactor 0.4.0 introduces interrupts — the first native saga pause/resume mechanism in the Ruby ecosystem. You've built a checkout flow. The user …
Mastering Background Processing in Rails 8: Sidekiq & Redis Optimization
In modern web applications, keeping the Request-Response cycle fast is crucial for user experience. If a user registers on your Rails 8 app and you tr…
Ruby on Rails End of Life: Rails 6.1 EOL, Rails 7.0 EOL — What's Still Supported in 2026
The Rails maintenance policy is lean by design: only the most recent minor version of the most recent two major versions receives security patches . E…
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…
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…
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…