Blog Posts

A language agnostic overview of what a server implementation looks like for Custom Mutators

How to authenticate a User in Controller tests when using RSpec and Rails 8 authentication.

I've spent a bit of time doing some vibe coding and I wanted to share my thoughts about what went well and what didn't go well.

A new feature for GitHub CoPilot, called Instructions, can be used to catch N+1 queries in Ruby on Rails applications. It can even leave comments on Pull Requests when it finds them!

Exploring a lesser known syntax for preloading nested Active Record associations.

Zero updates our database directly from the UI and we can't rely on callbacks like 'before_save' when using it. Let's explore different ways to manage data requirements.

Rocicorp's Zero is a sync engine to power extremely fast UI applications. I decided to pair it with Ruby on Rails and wanted to share how I got everything working.

Rails 8 added an authentication generator, but what if we want to use Google OAuth? I decided to implement it using the oauth2 gem and share what I learned.

I've wanted to add filenames to my inline code blocks since I built this blog. I finally did it and got the styling just how I wanted!

Rails 8 added an authentication generator, but it stopped short of creating User records and verifying their email address. I decided to build it and share what I learned.