Down and Dirty with Rails

In simple words, Ruby Struct is a built-in class that provides useful functionalities and shortcuts. You can use it for both logic and tests.

Explore the Active Model Dirty API in Rails with this in-depth guide. Learn how to track changes to your model objects, handle validations, and persist changes to the database.

It's updates on the work front today! Stephanie was tasked with removing a six-year-old feature flag from a codebase. Joël's been doing a lot of small database migrations. A listener question sparked today's main discussion on gerunds' interesting relationship to data modeling.

Fresh off his Ruby Kaigi talk, Vini Stock, joins the show to talk about all things Ruby LSP. Even though he's given a plethora of talks on the subject already there's so much to LSPs and to the future and vision of this project that I learned a ton while recording. Vini confirms what I always suspected, that getting paid to work on developer tooling is awesome. I'm super excited about this project and I suspect after listening to this episode you will be too!

In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can improve the interface of an Active Record Model by extracting existing logic into value objectsby using Rails’ composed_of macro.