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.

Normalizing Redux state to ensure good performance in React apps

In complex applications, client apps have to store and manage a large amount of nested data, and if the data is not normalized, it can be incredibly time-consuming for a program to lookup nested data which could become a performance concern.
authorImg Deepak Mahakale
authorImg Deepak Mahakale

Deepak is an Engineering Manager at Saeloun.

Rails 7 adds weekday_select and weekday_options_for_select

Rails 7 adds the `weekday_select` and `weekday_options_for_select` form helpers.
authorImg Prasad Walvekar
authorImg Prasad Walvekar

Prasad is a Ruby on Rails Developer.

Rails 7 adds `audio` in the metadata for video files

With the addition of `audio` metadata to video blobs, it will now be possible to check the presence of an audio channel in a video file.
authorImg Apoorv Tiwari
authorImg Apoorv Tiwari

Apoorv is a Ruby on Rails and React Developer.

ECMAScript 2021 introduces Promise.any() and AggregateError

ECMAScript 2021 introduces Promise.any() method which accepts an iterable of promises and waits for the first promise to fulfill, and its result becomes the outcome. If all the passed promises are rejected, it returns an AggregateError.
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla

Swaathi Kakarla is a Ruby on Rails Developer.

Rails 7 adds Marginalia to Query Logs

With this update, Marginalia SQL comments are added to Rails as a native feature!
authorImg Deepak Mahakale
authorImg Deepak Mahakale

Deepak is an Engineering Manager at Saeloun.

Rails 7 adds support for ActiveStorage expiring URLs

Rails 7 adds the `expires_in` option in the ActiveStorage URL helper for generating expiring URLs.
authorImg Chetan Gawai
authorImg Chetan Gawai

I am a Javascript and React enthusiast, and I absolutely love writing technical blogs. There's just something about the process of breaking down complex concepts and sharing my knowledge with others that really excites me. In my free time, I enjoy exploring my other passions, such as painting, gardening, cooking, and managing my food blog.

Keep the React app responsive even during large screen updates with startTransition API introduced in React 18

The newly introduced startTransition API helps to improve the user interactions by categorizing the state updates as urgent and non-urgent.
authorImg Keshav Biswa
authorImg Keshav Biswa

Keshav is a Ruby on Rails Developer.

Rails 7 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#structurally_compatible?

Rails 7 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#structurally_compatible? to provide an easy way to check if two relations are structurally compatible before running `or` or `and` query on it.
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla

Swaathi Kakarla is a Ruby on Rails Developer.

Rails 7 adds attributes_for_database to return attributes as they would be in the database

Before this update, serializing an ActiveRecord object led to funny outcomes. Let's dive in!
authorImg Rohit Joshi
authorImg Rohit Joshi

I am a Ruby on Rails developer with over two years of experience, most of which is working remotely. I am a typical Punekar and in my free time I play badminton, workout, go trekking and I like to interact with people. Feel free to slide into my DMs and say Hi! 😄

Rails 7 allows anything that responds to `#to_str` into redirect_to

Rails 7 adds support for redirecting using any arguments that respond_to `#to_str`.