59 Stories To Learn About Rails

Let's learn about Rails via these 59 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. Changing Database Column in Rails 5

While working on a Rails application, we all have had to change the database column in some way. You can change the column name and the column type, as well as changing the column with the type conversion.

2. How to Install Bootstrap 5 on Rails 6

Struggling with installing Bootstrap 5 on Rails 6 application? This article will help you.

3. Building a React App with Rails API

In this article, I will try to go through some important points of how to set up and build a Rails API with react as front-end.

4. Active Record Associations in Rails: Beginners Guide

As Ruby on Rails developers, we do not have to worry too much about the operations in the database due to the Object-Relational-Mapping or ORM. The ORM allows us to focus more on the logic of the business while it handles the operations with the database on our behalf.

5. Migrating A Rails App To Digital Ocean The Easy Way

Heroku is one of the top PaaS in the market thanks to many of its features that make focus on development instead of configuration and maintenance. This has bee

6. How To Setup Environmental Variables In A Rails Application

Security is and will always be a very big deal, this is largely true in all spheres of life but more-so in software development. One costly mistake can leave you vulnerable to stolen API Keys and Secrets, we wouldn't want that now, would we?

7. How To Extract Key or Value From Hash in Ruby on Rails

When I was recently working in one of the client projects, I had to communicate with external MariaDB server to store records from React/Rails app, that means I would get ActiveRecord hash from our app which I had to convert to pure SQL query and send it to an external server for storing.

8. How to Use binding.pry to Debug a Rails Application in a Docker Container

Debugging in a docker container isn't that straightforward. At least it is not in the way my team set everything up. I will describe my methods for debugging.

9. How to Implement One Tap Google Sign-In With Ruby on Rails

In this blog post, we will discuss how to integrate Google Identity Services into any of your front-end applications.

10. How To Populate Your Database with Fake Data: Ruby On Rails Tutorial

This is going to be a very straightforward article, no jokes included.

11. Hide the Navigation Bar in Rails

Recently I was working on a project in RoR and I realized I wanted to show the navigation bar and footer on some pages and nothing on others. For example, Imagine a signup page with a navbar !!! Yuck, not only does it not look pretty but also, I have never seen any design where the login/logout pages have a navigation bar. Very few designs like that do exist, and in my opinion, are not the best.

12. Should I Learn Rails in 2020?

Rails (or ruby on rails) used to the most popular web development framework just a couple of years ago, but it's not so popular now. If you are struggling to make a decision, this post may end up saving a lot of your time. But it is recommended that do research of your own about the technology and what it does best, will it be a good fit for you?

13. Create a Ruby on Rails (Rails-Postgresql-React) App using Docker Compose

How to create a Ruby on Rails application with Postgresql and React with Docker Compose

14. Generate Fancy Link Previews With Rails 7

Having fancy link previews encourages people to click on the fancy links and visit your site. Here is how you can imitate it easily for your own site.

15. GitHub's 18 Most Popular Ruby on Rails Repositories ( November 2019 )

16. Why Do Startups Love Ruby on Rails?

Why do so many startups choose Ruby on Rails over other technologies?

17. Rails and Laravel Explained With Basic MVC Structure

Ok, first of all, this isn’t an article about which framework is better since they have different base languages.

18. How to Build a Responsive Rails App with Hotwire

Building single page application with Ruby on Rails? Check out Hotwire. It utilizes server side rendering to send HTML over the wire. by Aleksandr Ulanov

19. Keeping Code Clean with Rails Service Objects

You can keep your Rails app cleaner and easier to maintain using Service Objects. Service objects help to decouple business logic from your controllers

20. rake db:drop 🐑

The terminal comands below will allow you to delete and re-create your Active Record database.

21. A Dive into Active Record Connection Pools and Horizontal Sharding in a Gem

Rails is a great framework that enables us to avoid grungy but essential topics like database connection pooling with all the inherent complexities of multi-threading and error handling.

22. How to Quickly Build an Admin Panel With Rails7 and Infold

Infold is a scaffold code generator for CRUD applications, such as an Admin panel with Rails7. This article explains how to use Gem in a tutorial format.

23. Closure in Ruby and Javascript

What is closure

24. How To Avoid N + 1 problem in Rails

Almost any app that we build has a lot of interactive options with a lot of data, to this we can also have conditions to which data should we show to what type of user, making us request data from different tables based on a unique identifier, if the queries are not handled in a proper manner this can slow down the loading, and that is because of the "N + 1" problem.

25. How to Integrate Selenium with Capybara

There are times when you want to know how your capybara tests are interacting with your pages, sometimes it’s not enough the log on your console to determine why they are not working as expected, that’s why you can make it display the steps on your browser in real-time. The steps to do this are really easy thanks to the Selenium Project, which is in charge of providing us the necessary infrastructure to interact with the interface of all major web browsers.

26. 8 Startups That Became Tech Giants via Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is an established, battle-tested technology that served as an excellent framework for software developers. But what’s the secret behind the success of Rails? One good reason is that ever since it appeared on the tech scene, it’s been part of projects launched by companies that have become some of the fastest-growing and largest startups we’ve ever seen.

27. Authenticating Your API Using "Knock Gem" in Rails

Due to the inability to generate a well-defined way to authenticate rails API, I have sourced out this information in order to help me and you have a way of authenticating our rails API token. This tutorial would be based on the latest version (6.0) of Ruby on Rails.

28. How to Manage Multiple Databases in Rails 6

With the launch of Rails 6, one of the new features that were announced was of multiple database support.

29. How To Use Rails Console To Test Rails Models, Associations and Validations

Introduction and Definition

30. The Ultimate Guide to Blazing-Fast Performance in Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is a tremendous framework when you want development speed for your project or startup. It’s useful right out of the box and comes with a plethora of behind-the-scenes magic to make your life easier. However, it’s not considered the fastest framework out there in terms of performance. You will find examples of individuals and companies drifting away from Rails in favour of something else. Despite this, there are many companies out there who have succeeded in scaling Rails and found success — just take a look at Airbnb, Github, Gitlab & Shopify.

31. Bare Metal Ruby

This manual explains how to install the most recent stable version of Ruby on Linux, without using rbenv or alternative version managers. The goal was to find a fast and reliable approach for provisioning expendable virtual machines for Rails development environment.

32. Active Record Associations in Rails

An association is a connection between two Active Record models. It makes much easier to perform various operations on the records in your code. We will divide associations into four categories:

33. How To Configure Rails Tests with RSpec, FactoryBot and Capybara

So, you're asked to test your application but have no idea how to begin. Or you read about TDD, RSpec, FactoryBot, Capybara, and maybe you didn't understand what they were meant for, or maybe when you tried to run them into your project nothing worked.

34. How To Use Gritter Notifications in Rails 6

Hello everyone, how has it been working with the challenges of COVID-19? Today, I will be sharing how I got gritter to work with Rails 6. According to the github Readme;

35. You Need to Know What is erb in Rails and How to Master it

One of the first things that made me uncomfortable about learning Rails was taking a look at the views. I found some weird files with some weird syntax. Their name was something like ‘name.html.erb’ and I was like what? Why does this file which seems to be an HTML file with kind of HTML syntax has a .erb extension after the .html extension?

36. Design a SaaS application on Rails 6.1 with Horizontal Sharding

Designing a multi-tenant application on Rails with horizontal sharding

37. How to Develop a Signup system with React, Redux, and Rails

I have always been fascinated with one’s ability to create or recreate. Software development for gives me a way to translate my imaginations into useful tangible things. The feeling I get after going through challenges to figure out how to put my ideas together, is incomparable. Full-stack development is the combination of both front-end technologies and back-end technologies to create a fully functional application. In this tutorial, we are going to combine front-end technology called React and Redux with a back-end technology called Rails to create a simple sign-up system.

38. Why do we need a through table explained with Rails?

In a many to many relationship, it's just a table between the entities, but what is the purpose of this table to be between them?

39. Get Unused Routes of Large Rails App 🛠

After a few years of continuous development, your rails application becomes larger and it’s good practice to do some cleanup. One of the most obvious cleanups is cleaning up unused routes.

40. Dubugging Cypress Seeds: 3 Ways to Speed Up Your Seed Data

If seeding the database for your end-to-end tests is taking too long—or not finishing at all—here are three ways to speed things up.

41. Is Ruby on Rails Declining? Not If You Build It

Is ruby on rails still used? absolutely. There is a list of reasons from many startups and a direct review from developers. Take a look at this article hurry!

42. When Time is of the Essence, These are the 19 Gems I Reach For

An application can only be as good as the features it is providing for its end-users. Every developer toes the line between indiscriminately adding gems and building new functionality themselves. When time is of the essence, these are the gems I reach for:

43. Extracting Information From Hash in Ruby on Rails

When I was recently working in one of the client project, I had to communicate with external mariadb server to store records from react/rails app, that means I would get activerecord hash from our app which I had to convert to pure sql query and send it to external server for storing.

If you have worked with sql queries previously then you must know that keys and values must be separated for insert operations like

44. How to Connect With External MySQL Servers (Part 1: Select Operations)

This tutorial shows how to perform basic select queries to interact with MySQL Server using mysql2 gem.

45. How To Create Auth by Connecting Devise into Your ROR Project

As a student of Microverse, I’ve reached the point where Rails’ framework was introduced to me. It appeared to me with the best omens on its hands. Ruby on Rails is a starting point for many start-ups because all of them got blinded by its beauty and simplicity. I have to admit that I felt intimidated for a while. Surely I can't say we are the best friends now but things started to make sense. Ruby on Rails is designed under the MVC principles - Model View Controllers.

46. How to Build a Notification System with Sidekiq, Redis and Devise in Rails 6

In this post, we are going to talk a lot about asynchronous functions, something very fashionable nowadays, but not so much just a few years ago.

47. Test-Driven Development with RSpec in Rails

When we start developing an app we usually do it the old fashion way: we get an idea, we elaborate on it, we make a plan to develop an app then we start coding and in the end, we test if our app is working properly.

48. Heroku Guide: How to Go Live with your Rails App

YAML: literally meaning “Yaml ain’t markup language” can mess you up in the beginning. Rails generates this file for you and you have to change it for Heroku. YAML spacing has to be exact and it’s important to know a tab is not the same as four spaces.

49. You Can Do More With Rails Console by Configuring ~/.irbrc 🎉

It´s better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive. — Steve McConnell

50. Rails Security: Eliminating CSRF and XSS Vulnerabilities

“…3,813 breaches were reported through June 30, 2019, exposing over 4.1 billion records. Compared to the midyear of 2018, the number of reported breaches was up 54% and the number of exposed records was up 52%”. - Source, RiskBasedSecurity

51. Creating End-to-End Encryption in Rails with Stimulus and OpenPGP.js

Why You Should Care About Encryption

52. A Refactoring Guide for Ruby on Rails

“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live” — John F. Woods

53. How To Add Action Mailbox To A Rails 6 Application

Sending mail from a Rails application has been covered by hundreds or thousands of articles, however, there is not a ton of articles about receiving, parsing and using the new ActionMailbox.

54. How I Upgraded Rails to Version 5.1.5 And Lived To Tell The Tale

Our Rails’ version was 4.2 and we needed to upgrade to a later version mostly because Heroku stack requires it.

55. The Dark Side of Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails framework (RoR) is the dream of every developer. It does pretty much everything for you without much effort, and once you learn it and deeply understand it, you can build an entire website in a couple of hours (Of course, styling it is a different story). The hard part of rails is to understand the magic behind it.

56. Authentication and Authorization with bcrypt In Rails

Introduction

57. 6 Tips for Taking Ownership of a Legacy Rails Project

Becoming the owner of a legacy Rails app can mean inheriting a project bogged down with tech debt, bugs, and sketchy documentation. Here's how to survive it.

58. How To Upload and Display Images Trough IBM Cloud with Rails 6

This is a tutorial about how we can implement IBM Cloud Storage in our Ruby on Rails 6 projects. We can upload images and manage these assets with Rails. In this tutorial we are going to build a simple app. We can upload a kitty photo and vote for that photo (this tutorial only includes the part of creating a new Rails app, configuring it to save our photo on the cloud, and showing it on an image tag; the design and the part for the photo will be included in the app but is not shown in this tutorial).

59. Take a Ride on the Ruby Rails Express — Understanding The MVC Architecture

A quick story explaining the Ruby on Rails MVC architecture. You find yourself at the Ruby on Rails train station exploring the MVC architecture.

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