Porting a Ruby Gem to the browser with ruby.wasm
When I built a small Ruby command-line tool - Tints ‘N Shades - I wondered: What does it take to run this library in the browser? Can it be done? Should it b...
Writing
Using Jekyll with Esbuild
I know. What an unholy union. Why would anyone do this? Why would anyone want that?
Continuous Deployment with GitHub Actions and Kamal
Kamal is a wonderfully simple way to deploy your applications anywhere. It will also be included by default in Rails 8. Kamal is trivial, but I don’t recomme...
The Simplest Static Site Generator
Sometimes, you want to build a simple HTML page and populate it with some data. You may have some JSON lying around and want to make a simple website to visu...
(Ab)Using Single Table Inheritance to Refactor Fat Models
How to deal with a model that tries to do too much? Consider something like this:
Real-Time Command Line Applications with Action Cable and Thor
If you build a Rails application that has any kind of real-time feature, chances are you use Action Cable.
Processing images with ActiveStorage and Imgproxy
ActiveStorage has a nifty feature that allows you to serve variants of uploaded images. Think of a user uploading a profile image. You won’t need the full-si...
Load testing GraphQL with WRK
For performance testing wrk is one of my favorite tools. Whether you are trying to get a quick benchmark or building a performance test suite - it is fairly ...
CLI OAuth in Ruby
Have you ever used a command-line application that triggered an OAuth authentication flow to log you in and wondered how that works? For example, Google Clou...
Use GitHub Actions to find Outdated Dependencies
Keeping up with dependencies can be a pain. That is especially true if you build a tool that heavily relies on some library. If that library changes in a maj...