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Jun 28, 2026

Migrating a Production Rails App from Webpacker + Sprockets to Webpack + Jsbunding-rails : A…

Migrating a Production Rails App from Webpacker + Sprockets to Webpack + Jsbunding-rails : A Battle-Tested Guide The full story of modernizing a decade-old S...

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Jun 04, 2026

Moving on from Heroku — Part 2

Evaluating CleverCloud for production. I work in a SaaS company with a strong foothold in the aviation industry. This article outlines an our evaluation proc...

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Apr 25, 2026

Moving on from Heroku — Part 1

Evaluating OVH cloud for production. I work in a SaaS company with a strong foothold in the aviation industry. This article outlines an our evaluation proces...

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Apr 13, 2026

Managing Rails Database Schemas Across Branches: A Practical Guide to db/schema.rb Conflicts

The Problem Every Rails Team Faces (But Few Talk About). You open a pull request. CI passes. Code review looks good. Then: git merge master produces this: CO...

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Nov 14, 2023

Advanced uses of ‘select’ in Ruby

Advanced use cases for the ‘select’ method. In the world of Ruby programming, the select method is more than just a basic tool for filtering arrays. It’s ver...

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Oct 20, 2023

Dynamically changing the favicon in Rails

How to render a favicon depending on the page or action in Ruby on Rails. The little details often make a big difference in the ever-evolving web development...

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