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Latest Rails, React, and engineering articles

Field notes on framework changes, performance, upgrades, testing, and product engineering.

• authorImg Mayank Agnihotri
authorImg Mayank Agnihotri

I'm a React and Rails enthusiast with two years of experience creating innovative software solutions that improve business productivity. I work well in teams and am always up for challenging projects. Born and raised in Navi Mumbai, I enjoy gaming and travelling in my free time.

Learn about tree shaking in Webpack 5

Tree shaking in Webpack 5 removes dead code from bundles using ES2015 imports, usedExports optimization, and sideEffects configuration.
• authorImg Murtaza Bagwala
authorImg Murtaza Bagwala

A passionate full stack software engineer having 7 years of experience in building scalable enterprise systems. I have worked predominantly with the JVM and Javascript ecosystem but currently exploring Rails. For me, software engineering is all about solving problems in the most optimal way. I am an avid practitioner of clean code practices and love to read about System Design and Architectures. When I am not coding I love to play playstation, read anything about aviation or go out for a long drive and of-course I am foodie by heart.

Rails 7.1 datetime_field include_seconds

Rails now allows to omit seconds part in the input field by adding the include_seconds option to datetime_field
• authorImg Swaathi Kakarla
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla

Swaathi Kakarla is a Ruby on Rails Developer specializing in building super-fast and secure web applications.

Rails Pending Migrations Show Path

Rails warns users of pending migrations now by showing the path of the migration file, instead of just the name. This is useful in multi-db applications.
• authorImg Swaathi Kakarla
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla

Swaathi Kakarla is a Ruby on Rails Developer specializing in building super-fast and secure web applications.

Ruby Data Class for Immutable Objects

The Data class helps define simple classes for value-alike objects that can be extended with custom methods.
• authorImg Swaathi Kakarla
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla

Swaathi Kakarla is a Ruby on Rails Developer specializing in building super-fast and secure web applications.

Rails 7 Fixes tsrange Timezone Bug

Earlier the tsrange/tstzrange column would throw a TypeError if a timezone was set in the application config.
• authorImg Swaathi Kakarla
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla

Swaathi Kakarla is a Ruby on Rails Developer specializing in building super-fast and secure web applications.

Rails 7.1 Job Generator --parent

Similar to the working of the model generator, the job generator now accepts the --parent option.
• authorImg Swaathi Kakarla
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla

Swaathi Kakarla is a Ruby on Rails Developer specializing in building super-fast and secure web applications.

Rails Adds SQLite :strict Option

SQLite can be configured to be strict to circumvent some of its quirks. Rails can now specify this in the default database.yml file.
• authorImg Prasad Walvekar
authorImg Prasad Walvekar

Prasad is a Frontend Developer with over five years of experience, specializing in building high-performing and visually engaging web platforms.

CSS overflow:clip and overflow-clip-margin

overflow: clip and overflow: hidden both do the same job of hiding content that overflows. However, overflow: clip also disables programmatic scrolling.
• authorImg Swaathi Kakarla
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla

Swaathi Kakarla is a Ruby on Rails Developer specializing in building super-fast and secure web applications.

Rails Validates Migration Options

Previously erroneous options were silently ignored in migration functions such as "create_table" or "add_column", now they raise an error.
• authorImg Swaathi Kakarla
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla

Swaathi Kakarla is a Ruby on Rails Developer specializing in building super-fast and secure web applications.

Rails assert_redirected_to Status Code

The assertion statement previous was only able to assert that the request was redirected, but not the status code.