1. The Best Kind of Brilliant

    The Ruby community has lost a true luminary this week with the passing of Chris Seaton, staff researcher at Shopify and creator of the impressive and envelope-pushing TruffleRuby implementation. Chris and I probably met two dozen times without having a real conversation, but my friend Aaron Patterson worked with him:
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    December 7, 2022
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Justin Searls
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    Ruby
    Community
  2. Building passwordless email auth in Rails

    Adding authentication to your Rails app but don't want to store passwords or rely on third-party OAuth? Let's build a passwordless login system that emails users magic links!
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    October 25, 2022
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Justin Searls
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    Rails
  3. Stateless forms with the Rails Attributes API

    Building a form in Rails that ISN'T driven by an ActiveRecord model? Here's how to use the Attributes API to get all the convenience with none of the complexity.
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    August 30, 2022
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Justin Searls
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    Rails
  4. How to fake time in a Postgres database

    Mocking or freezing time when testing your application? Ruby and JavaScript make it easy … until your database is involved. Here's a way to time travel in Postgres!
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    April 19, 2022
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Justin Searls
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    Testing

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