Ruby articles

Unlock the power of background processing in Ruby and Rails with Sidekiq. Learn how to effortlessly create, schedule, and manage background jobs with and without ActiveJob.

Maybe you've used Solid Queue already, but how well do you understand it? In this article, we'll follow the journey of a Solid Queue job from enqueue to completion.

Web scraping with Ruby opens up a world of possibilities. Would you like to get a text message when something gets restocked online? Dig into this article, where we'll solve a practical shopping problem in Ruby with web scraping!

Jump into this article to learn the differences between Rails engines and plugins and even create your very own engine. We'll cover everything you need to know to enhance your Rails applications with modular, reusable components.

Rocky Mountain Ruby is back this year, and Honeybadger is a Sapphire sponsor! To celebrate, we're giving away a free conference ticket. Enter to win by 9/20.

With ActiveStorage's built-in Microsoft Azure Storage Service, using Azure Blob Storage to manage file uploads in your Ruby on Rails app is easier than you think. Check out this article to learn how.

Working with CSV files is something every programmer has to do eventually. Fortunately, Ruby's built-in CSV library puts plenty of tools at our disposal.

Got a Rails API that needs some love? Learn how to version your API endpoints so that you can introduce new features while maintaining backward compatibility!

How secure is your API? Learn how to build an API with Ruby on Rails and use rack-attack to keep the bad actors out.

2024's Blue Ridge Ruby conference in Asheville, North Carolina, was not only a wonderful experience but also highlighted the opportunity (and what's at stake) in the Ruby community.

What if you started with a Rails API-only application and now find yourself needing a front-end? In this article we explore how to add a vanilla Rails front-end to your API-only application.

Say goodbye to the complexities and costs of managing external services like Redis, and hello to Solid Queue. In this article, we'll explore using Solid Queue to process background jobs, from integration to deployment, and even monitoring!

You've deployed your Rails app with Kamal, but now what? How do you know what's happening under the hood? You can tail your logs on the server (otherwise known as hard mode), but there's a better way: ship them off-site with Vector!

Account-based subdomains are a powerful feature that can give your app extra security by isolating user data while giving your users the ability to customize their experience. In this article, you'll learn what account-based subdomains are, why they matter, and how to implement them in a Rails application.

Hanami is a fresh take on building full-stack Ruby apps. With its focus on abstractions, minimal defaults, and speed, it could be the framework to take on Rails' dominance of the Ruby landscape. In this tutorial, we build a simple app using Hanami and, along the way, learn the framework and how it works.

Learn how to deploy your Ruby on Rails application to Render.com so that you can focus on code instead of infrastructure.

Honeybadger co-founder Joshua Wood explains how to graph Ahoy page views in Rails with Chartkick, with a preview of our upcoming observability tool—Insights!

Harness the power of modularity in Rails. Learn how to build reusable UI components to reduce code duplication and scale your design system.

There are scenarios where a combination of columns needs to be used as the primary key. This is where composite primary keys come into play. This article explores composite primary keys, how they work in Rails, when they should be used, and what to consider when using them.

Building your app is only half the battle. The other half is deploying it. Kamal makes it easy to deploy a Rails app without a PhD in infrastructure and operations.