Go for Rubyists: A Practical Guide to Learning Golang
I love Ruby. It is the language that made me happy to write code. But as a Rails developer, I eventually hit a wall. Maybe I needed to process a 2GB CSV file...
Is Coding Over? 5 Career Pivots for Rails Devs in the AI Era
If you spend any time on Tech Twitter lately, you might feel like the sky is falling. People are saying that “coding is dead” and that AI will replace every ...
Demystifying Rails Magic: How Autoloading Actually Works
I remember when I first started learning Ruby outside of Rails. I was building a small script, and my code kept crashing with NameError: uninitialized consta...
Stripe-Style IDs in Rails: A Guide to the custom_id Gem
If you have ever used the Stripe API, you’ve noticed their IDs look awesome. Instead of a random number or a long, confusing UUID, they look like this: cus_M...
Rapid UI Development: Top 4 Component Kits for Solo Rails Devs
I remember the days when building a professional-looking dashboard in Rails meant spending a whole week wrestling with CSS flexbox and custom SVG icons. You’...
ViewComponent vs. Phlex: Which Ruby UI Library Should You Choose?
I remember when my app/views folder was a complete disaster. I had deeply nested partials, instance variables floating everywhere, and logic hidden inside HT...
The AI Support Agent: Connecting n8n, OpenAI, and Your Rails DB
I used to wake up every morning to a wall of support emails. As a solo developer, this is the ultimate “flow-state” killer.
MVT vs MVC: Understanding Django Through a Rails Lens
If you are a Rails developer, you are used to the “Omakase” experience. Everything is chosen for you, and there is a very specific “Rails Way” to do things.
The $5 VPS Reality: My Honest Math on Moving to Kamal 2
I remember the day I got my first $200 bill from a PaaS provider (Platform as a Service).
From Coder to Architect: How to Learn Rails When AI Writes the Code
I recently realized that the way I learned Ruby on Rails ten years ago is now completely obsolete.