Tailwind CSS is a popular CSS framework that helps developers quickly build and style web pages with a unique utility-based approach. Unlike other CSS frameworks, it comes with its own build tooling. In this article, Jeffery Morhous walks us through setting up Tailwind CSS with Rails and Webpacker.
Vue is a popular front-end that is especially useful for Rails developers since it was designed to be incrementally adoptable. That means you can use Vue for parts of your UI without having to rebuild everything from scratch. In this article, John Emmanual will introduce us to Vue, show us how to set it up in Rails, and walk us through a simple project.
Node.js projects in Honeybadger can now officially take advantage of source maps, just like Client-Side JavaScript projects can.
This article is the next in our series about building a toy programming language in Ruby. Alex Braha Stoll shows us how to implement the interpreter for function definitions, variable declarations, and more.
Race conditions are arguably the most insidious kind of bug; they're intermittent, subtle, and most likely to occur in production. ActiveRecord's update_counter provides us with a convenient way to avoid race conditions when incrementing or decrementing values in the database. In this article, Jonathan Miles shows us how to use it, how it's implemented, and other approaches to avoiding race conditions.
Lambda is an excellent option for deploying lower-traffic web services when you don't want to maintain another server and you want easy access to all of AWS's other services. In this article, Godwin Ekuma shows us step-by-step how to deploy our Rails apps to AWS Lambda.
EuroPython, PyCon, DjangoCon, and SciPy rev up. A PyDoc CVE. Flask has a major new release. FastAPI and Django have minor releases. Discussions on a faster python
Good docs make happy customers. But documentation is HARD. You have to figure out what's important and write it up in a way that's tailored to your audiences and consistent across the site. Now you need to set up a website, publish the docs and maintain them as your product changes. Fortunately, we have seasoned technical writer Kate Bartolo here to walk us through the whole process.
Rails apps tend to start simple, with clean models and controllers. Then you start adding features. Before you know it, your models and controllers are big, unwieldy, and hard to understand. Refactoring into service objects is a great way to split these big pieces up, so they're easier to understand, test, and maintain.
Rbenv, RubyGems, and Bundler work together to give us a lot of control over our code's environment. If you know how they work, you'll be better prepared to troubleshoot any problems you encounter. In this article, Olasubomi walks us through the basics of how these three tools do what they do.