Rails

Nov 10, 2025

• authorImg Bastin
authorImg Bastin

I'm a full‑stack Ruby on Rails engineer with 4+ years of experience building and scaling web apps end‑to‑end. I work across Rails (v5–v7.2.1), Hotwire/Stimulus, PostgreSQL/Redis/MySQL, and modern JS/TS with hands‑on DevOps in AWS (MediaConvert, SNS, S3, EC2), Docker, CI/CD, Git, and Sidekiq. I'm currently exploring React and Next.js.

Rails 8 Conditional allow_nil/allow_blank

 Use callable allow_nil/allow_blank to make validations depend on model state without duplicating rules.

Oct 14, 2025

• authorImg Chetan Gawai
authorImg Chetan Gawai

I am a Javascript and React enthusiast, and I absolutely love writing technical blogs. There's just something about the process of breaking down complex concepts and sharing my knowledge with others that really excites me. In my free time, I enjoy exploring my other passions, such as painting, gardening, cooking, and managing my food blog.

Lexxy - Modern Rich Text Editor for Rails

 Lexxy is a modern rich text editor built on top of Lexical that offers lot of features for modern editing experience.

Sep 12, 2025

• authorImg Chetan Gawai
authorImg Chetan Gawai

I am a Javascript and React enthusiast, and I absolutely love writing technical blogs. There's just something about the process of breaking down complex concepts and sharing my knowledge with others that really excites me. In my free time, I enjoy exploring my other passions, such as painting, gardening, cooking, and managing my food blog.

Rails Decouples Trix Into action_text-trix

 Get faster Trix updates, cleaner installs, and simplified editor setup with the new action_text-trix gem.

Jul 11, 2025

• authorImg Prasanth Chaduvula
authorImg Prasanth Chaduvula

I'm a React, Javascript & Rails full-stack Software Engineer. I have been working remotely for the past two years in a remote village. Before joining as a Software Engineer I founded kwiq - a hyperlocal delivery startup to deliver things in remote villages.

Rails 8 Dev Container Without Redis

 With Rails 8, applications use the Solid Queue and Solid Cache gems by default, so it do not include redis in the dev container.

Jul 9, 2025

• authorImg Chetan Gawai
authorImg Chetan Gawai

I am a Javascript and React enthusiast, and I absolutely love writing technical blogs. There's just something about the process of breaking down complex concepts and sharing my knowledge with others that really excites me. In my free time, I enjoy exploring my other passions, such as painting, gardening, cooking, and managing my food blog.

• authorImg Akhil G Krishnan
authorImg Akhil G Krishnan

I'm a Rails and React enthusiast with over two year experience in web application development. I'm also an active member of technical communities in Kerala. Born and raised in Alappuzha, Kerala. In my free time I use to travelling and do open source contributions.

Rails Deprecated Associations with Reporting

 Rails introduces a deprecated option for associations to log warnings, raise errors, or send notifications.

Jun 30, 2025

• authorImg Prasanth Chaduvula
authorImg Prasanth Chaduvula

I'm a React, Javascript & Rails full-stack Software Engineer. I have been working remotely for the past two years in a remote village. Before joining as a Software Engineer I founded kwiq - a hyperlocal delivery startup to deliver things in remote villages.

Rails Self-Join UPDATE for Outer Joins

 Rails no more generates the subqueries as it uses self-join for `UPDATE` with outer joins on PostgreSQL and SQLite.

May 12, 2025

• authorImg Prasanth Chaduvula
authorImg Prasanth Chaduvula

I'm a React, Javascript & Rails full-stack Software Engineer. I have been working remotely for the past two years in a remote village. Before joining as a Software Engineer I founded kwiq - a hyperlocal delivery startup to deliver things in remote villages.

Rails 8 adds built in authentication

 Rails 8's built-in authentication generator offers a lightweight, secure alternative to Devise with full control.

Apr 30, 2025

• authorImg Prasanth Chaduvula
authorImg Prasanth Chaduvula

I'm a React, Javascript & Rails full-stack Software Engineer. I have been working remotely for the past two years in a remote village. Before joining as a Software Engineer I founded kwiq - a hyperlocal delivery startup to deliver things in remote villages.

Rails Stops Generating bin/bundle Binstub

 In new Rails applications, the bin/bundle is no longer included by default, as managing the correct Bundler version is now handled directly by RubyGems.

Mar 24, 2025

• authorImg Prasanth Chaduvula
authorImg Prasanth Chaduvula

I'm a React, Javascript & Rails full-stack Software Engineer. I have been working remotely for the past two years in a remote village. Before joining as a Software Engineer I founded kwiq - a hyperlocal delivery startup to deliver things in remote villages.

Rails 8 Removes Default Channels Folder

 With Rails 8, channels folder dropped from default app/ structure as Hotwire is default in Rails.

Mar 10, 2025

• authorImg Prasanth Chaduvula
authorImg Prasanth Chaduvula

I'm a React, Javascript & Rails full-stack Software Engineer. I have been working remotely for the past two years in a remote village. Before joining as a Software Engineer I founded kwiq - a hyperlocal delivery startup to deliver things in remote villages.

Rails ActiveModel Normalization

 Rails brings attribute normalization to ActiveModel, allowing custom formatting rules for model attributes.