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 …
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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 deleting …
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 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…
Тонкие контроллеры и модели. Использование паттернов проектирования в Rails-приложении
Вечный спор в среде MVC-фреймворков - что лучше? Толстые модели и тонкие контроллеры или наоборот? Классический подход Rails — “Fat Model, Skinny Cont…
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…
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 single…
Ractors vs Fibers: Ruby Concurrency Without the Hand-Waving
Ruby has had a concurrency story for years. For most of that time, the story was "threads exist but the GIL means they don't give you parallelism for …
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…
Blue Ridge Ruby 2026: A Conference About the Long Game
The first morning of Blue Ridge Ruby , John Athayde stood at the front of the YMI Cultural Center and showed us pictures of trees. Forests. His own la…