How to build a complete, real-world application from scratch with Ruby on Rails step by step.
A lot of Ruby code is "magic". We'll explain the magic and see how it works using the powerful tools Ruby gives us.
Accept subscription and one-time payments with Stripe in your Rails apps
Expert advice on keeping Rails apps organized and fast.
Learn how to build fast, modern web apps with HTML over the wire.
Setup your computer with Ruby on Rails and deploy to a production server.
Cheap, easy hosting for Ruby and Rails apps.
Launch your product business way faster with our SaaS template.
A weekly podcast on web development and building products with Ruby, Rails, Javascript, and more.
A few of the Open Source projects we do at GoRails.
Build a Ruby on Rails app in 48 hours with us.
Help Junior developers get hired by sharing small projects to build their resume with paid work.
Find your next Ruby on Rails Job.
Keeping track of a user's last read timestamp for each chat room is straightforward, especially when we use Stimulus.js to update it from the client side.
Using the Intersection Observer API, we can refactor our infinite scroll example to be much more efficient and simpler to use
An updated version of our Group Chat series using Webpacker, ActionCable, Stimulus.js, and modern Javascript to build a very clean version of realtime group chat in Rails
Scroll events in Javascript can happen quickly. We want to make sure we don't request the same page multiple times which we can solve easily by introducing a little throttling.
Sometimes you might want to keep track of all classes a module was included in. We can do that with a couple nifty tricks to make this work with both regular Ruby modules and Rails concerns.
Webpacker provides some nice tools for loading Javascript in several different ways. We're looking at require.context to see how to load an entire directory's set of files easily.
Testing file uploads can be tricky, but Shrine makes both file uploading and testing a lot easier than you might expect.
Learn how to test ActiveStorage file uploads and create fixtures with ActiveStorage attachments
If we want to add realtime tracking of which users are online, we can use active websocket connections through ActionCable to keep track.
Mocks are a handy tool for writing tests in Ruby. You can use them to fake an object and verify that the correct methods were called against it. Perfect for testing a method that integrates closely with another class or module.
Test stubs are very handy when you want to mock out the response to a method call. This allows your tests to be more reliable and skip long running or unnecessary method calls.
Today we're refactoring Andrew Mason's GitHub Action that runs Rubocop against your repository. We'll pull out some concepts, remove conditionals, and use several other techniques to clean up the code.
Testing ActionCable authentication with Devise is pretty easy, especially when we build our own helpers to stub out Warden
Rails provides several really useful test helpers for ActionMailer so we can quickly iterate on our design, test that our code queues up the right emails, and make sure our emails contain the right content.
Testing integrations with external APIs in your Rails app can be hard. You don't know what requests are being made (or even the responses), so how can you properly mock them out? VCR to the rescue.
WebMock is a fantastic way to stub out and mock your HTTP requests. It will actually throw an exception in your test suite when an HTTP request is made so that you know when you're hitting an external API that you haven't stubbed out correctly.
Learn how to write integration tests in Rails to test controllers and actions
You can use Fixtures in Rails to create sample database records for your tests to run against. They're easy to setup and extremely quick.
Test Driven Development, or TDD, is a pretty simple process that allows you to write your code in conjunction with tests to ensure a high level of confidence and code coverage.
Race conditions can cause problems with data integrity. We can prevent these issues with Pessimistic Locking in ActiveRecord which uses database row-level locking.
