Blog

• RailsConf 2022—Looking at Your Own Reflection

  17 June 2022

  Inspecting the inner workings of Active Record associations in your own application

• RailsConf 2022—Relating Relations

  18 May 2022

  A thought about the relationship between Active Record Relations and Associations

• RailsConf 2022—Super Associations

  17 May 2022

  Active Record generates association methods in a module, allowing you to override those methods and call super

• RailsConf 2022—Lies About Metaprogramming

  16 May 2022

  In which I tell the truth about how association methods are generated

• Core Produce Team

  04 March 2021

  On typos and identifying root causes

• Adventures in Infinite Scrolling

  03 March 2021

  A series of bugs gradually uncovered

• Bugs that bug

  26 February 2021

  Adventures in debugging

• Protect your Rails app against security threats during COVID-19

  07 May 2020

  Join thoughtbot as we discuss the rise of security threats during COVID-19, and how upgrading your Rails application can protect your business and users.

• This Week in Rails 2020-04-27

  27 April 2020

  Security releases, new mailing list, new features, and refactoring

• Web Security During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  20 April 2020

  The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it an increase in cyber threats, but we can fight back by being more thoughtful about web security.

• This Week in Rails 2020-03-01

  01 March 2020

  Horizontal sharding, gzip schema cache, database rake tasks

• This Week in Rails 2019-11-17

  17 November 2019

  Rails 6.0.1, database connection improvements, and more

• This Week in Rails 2019-08-25

  25 August 2019

  Rails 6 excitement, connection pool reaping, bug fixes

• This Week in Rails 2019-07-15

  15 July 2019

  New contributors fixing bugs in the summer

• This Week in Rails 2019-04-02

  02 April 2019

  New versions of Rails, optimizer hints, ROFL, and more

• This Week in Rails 2019-01-22

  22 January 2019

  Rails 6.0.0 beta1, and more

• This Week in Rails 2018-11-02

  02 November 2018

  Webpacker, Action Text, Multiple database improvements, and more

• This Week in Rails 2018-09-16

  16 September 2018

  Performance improvements, configuration options, and more

• Deprecating static attributes in factory_bot 4.11

  16 August 2018

  Static attributes have been the source of much confusion over the years. Their deprecation will come with a rubocop-rspec Cop to automatically replace with dynamic attributes.

• This Week in Rails 2018-06-16

  16 June 2018

  Faster record deletion, customized error messages, bug fixes, and more!

• Metaprogramming All The Way Down

  15 January 2018

  A tour of FactoryBot

• for loops in Ruby

  11 December 2017

  Why does Ruby have for loops, and why don't we use them?

• Fully Loaded

  03 December 2017

  Loading source files in Ruby and Rails

• Ruby and/or Methods

  13 November 2017

  Why can't I write my own && and || methods in Ruby?