Rails

Upgrading from Rails 4.2 to Rails 5 - A Complete Guide

A practical guide to upgrading from Rails 4.2 to Rails 5 with breaking changes, Ruby version requirements, and step-by-step migration strategies.

Rails 8.1 Introduces Structured Event Reporting with Rails.event

Rails 8.1 adds a new structured event reporting API via Rails.event, providing a unified interface for emitting structured logs, business events, and telemetry with consistent metadata, tags, and context.

Rails 8.1 introduces bin/ci to standardize CI workflows with a new DSL

Introduces bin/ci, a tool designed to standardize and simplify CI workflows through a new domain specific language (DSL) defined in config/ci.rb.

Planning Rails Upgrade - A Strategic Guide

A practical 5-step guide to planning Rails upgrades with key considerations, essential tools, and proven strategies for a smooth migration.

Rails Native Composite Primary Keys: A Complete Evolution from Rails 3 to Rails 8

Explore how Rails evolved to support composite primary keys natively in Rails 8, migration strategies from the composite_primary_keys gem, and best practices for modern multi tenant applications.

A Guide to Web Application Monitoring

Learn how to implement effective web application monitoring for Rails and React apps using metrics, logs, and traces to catch problems before they impact users.

Customizing Rails Migrations with Execution Strategies

Rails 7.1 introduced a new way to customize how migrations execute — the Execution Strategy API

How to Clean Up Your Rails Logs: Ignoring Benign SQL Warnings

Explore how Rails enables fine-grained control over SQL warnings, allowing teams to suppress harmless database warnings while maintaining visibility into critical issues.

Rails 8 enhances ActiveStorage::Blob#open to work without a block

Use ActiveStorage::Blob#open without a block to keep tempfiles alive across multi-stage workflows, background jobs, or external tools.

Rails makes error reporting tests easier in Rails 7.1

Rails introduces assert_error_reported, assert_no_error_reported, and capture_error_reports to make testing error reporting behavior more straightforward and expressive.