Stop Building Ugly Admin Panels: Why Avo is the Future of Rails Admins
The “Admin Panel” Ticket We all know the feeling. You are building an exciting new SaaS. The core product is looking great. Then, you look at your backlog an...
The ‘Middle’ of Nowhere: Demystifying Middleware in Rails
The “Black Box” Between the Browser and Your Code When you are learning Rails, you usually think the flow works like this: User clicks a link. Magic hap...
Why You Should Stop Just Posting on Dev.to (and Where to Go Instead)
The Developer’s Dilemma You’ve just spent three days debugging a complex Rails 8 migration or finally perfected your Arch Linux dotfiles. You want to write a...
The Renaissance of the One-Person Framework: Why Rails is More Relevant Than Ever
If I had a nickel for every time a “State of Web Dev” article declared Ruby on Rails dead, I wouldn’t need to write code for a living.
Why I Switched from RSpec to Minitest (Rails Default)
The Industry Standard If you’ve been in the Rails ecosystem for a while, RSpec is likely your default. It’s what most bootcamps teach, it’s what most enterpr...
Not Just HTML: Scraping Data from Messy PDFs
The “Final Boss” of Data Extraction You’ve mastered Nokogiri. You can navigate a nested <div> structure with your eyes closed. But then, your client or...
How Hotwire Restored My Sanity in Web Development
I’ll admit it: I used to be a React maximalist.
You Are Writing Regex Wrong: A Guide to Ruby’s Best Hidden Feature
The “Two Problems” Joke There is an old programmer joke: “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now t...
Ruby vs. Python: Why I Choose Happiness Over Hype
Let’s get the elephant out of the room immediately: Python has won the popularity contest.
The Ultimate Ruby Scraping Stack: From Nokogiri to Ferrum
Web scraping in Ruby isn’t a “one size fits all” task. If you use a headless browser for a static site, you’re wasting CPU. If you use Nokogiri for a React a...