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Rails HTTP Status Codes
Handy guide to named statuses
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July 2023

Loading Dynamic Content on Opening Bootstrap Modals with Stimulus JS
Don't load data on view load, but on modal open
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February 2023

Using Tabulator with Stimulus
This is turning into a little series for me! I am loving moving things out of my html.erb files and into Stimulus controllers. It is cleaning things up…
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Rails ActiveRecord: create_with, where for new records
More 'things I forgot' - using create_with and where in making new records. We can make use of the resulting association to create new records that…
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Rails: Read-Only Attributes
Seems simple, but I'd 'forgotten' about it, so here's a reminder.
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Avoiding N+1 with scopes
While trying to do some optimizations I ran into a block of code that, despite using `:includes` was still hitting the database all the time. Here's…
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Rails 7: Filtering Data with ChartKick & Stimulus
I've been using Chartkick for years, but upgrading to Rails 7 made me take a look at how I'd been trapping Chartkick events and upgrade it to work with…
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ActionMailer - use parameters not parameters
Passing in parameters using `with` instead of method parameters gives a degree of freedom - and snazz! - to your ActionMailers. Read on to find out…
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Counting occurrences with #tally
There are many ways to count how many times the same `x` appears in an array. Here's one more for you!
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Finally! An environment variable for Rails log level
Is it me, or should we have had this back in 2006 or so?
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January 2023

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