How I Hunted Down 23 N+1 Queries in a Rails App With Claude Code
TL;DR Our Rails app's p95 response time had crept from 280 ms to 1.4 s over a year, and nobody could say why. I paired with Claude Code for four day…
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Sidekiq to Kafka: A Mental-Model Map for Rails Developers
TL;DR: If you've spent years with Sidekiq, Kafka can look like "Sidekiq with extra steps". It isn't. Sidekiq moves jobs (commands to do something).…
Why change-impact analysis is surprisingly hard in Ruby on Rails
Refactoring a mature Rails app often starts with a simple question: If I change this method, what else could break? In a smaller codebase, grep migh…
Building a Radio Player with Ruby & WebForms Core
WebForms Core (WFC) is a web development technology owned and developed by Elanat . It provides a server-driven approach for building interactive we…
Your Webhook Endpoint is a Tiny Distributed System
If you want the Rails implementation version of this, Webhooks in Rails goes deeper on verification, durable receipt, idempotency, retries, jobs, te…
Re-Organized configuration in Rails
A while back I wrote about organizing configuration in Rails . The idea was simple: drop YAML files into config/configurations/ and get namespaced c…
I Tested Rails Baseline by Leaving Architecture Out of the Prompt
Note: Rails Baseline is the production-ready Rails foundation I tested here. It gives a new SaaS application and the coding agents working in it cle…
Built a Blog App with Rails & PostgreSQL – Looking for Code Review!
Hey DEV community! 👋 I've been working on a Blog Application built with Ruby on Rails to practice backend architecture, clean code standards, and Ra…
Why I Stopped Waiting on Ruby LSP and Built My Own Fuzzy Symbol Search for VS Code
If you've worked in a mid-to-large Rails codebase in VS Code, you've probably run into this: you want to jump to a method, you hit Ctrl/Cmd+T, you t…
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…
Solid Queue has no alerting, so I built QueuePulse
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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. Co…
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…
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…
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 . en…
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…
Strict by Accident: Your JSON Parser Isn't Broken — It's Answering the Wrong Question
I was importing a JSON file and it blew up. Not a subtle bug — the parser refused the whole thing. The cause was a single extra comma. After deletin…
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…
It Worked on My Machine (Literally)
I have a TRMNL on my desk. If you haven't seen one, it's a little e-ink display from trmnl.com that shows you whatever you tell it to: your calendar…
🇺🇸 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 deficiencie…
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 use…
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…
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 .…
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 langu…
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,…
Тонкие контроллеры и модели. Использование паттернов проектирования в Rails-приложении
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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 thi…
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, s…
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 r…
Embed mruby as a Single Binary That Runs Everywhere
I've been working on RapidForge a self hosted platform that turns scripts into webhooks, pages and scheduled jobs. RapidForge itself ships as a sing…