7 Best Articles on Rails
The most useful articles on rails from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Rails Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on rails by Refind users in 2023 so far.
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How to Create a Simple CRUD App with Rails and React
In this post I'll show you how to create a Rails API then, using the Webpacker gem, build a React front-end to consume it.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on rails—all under 10 minutes.
Why we're sticking with Ruby on Rails
GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij makes the case for Ruby on Rails.
7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models
When teams use Code Climate to improve the quality of their Rails applications, they learn to break the habit of allowing models to get fat. “Fat models” cause maintenance issues in large apps. Only…
Scaling Rails to 125,000 Requests per Minute on Heroku — ZeeMee Engineering
Summary: On Heroku, Rails scales fairly easily, but there are some important things to consider.
How We Test Rails Applications
I’m frequently asked what it takes to begin testing Rails applications. The...
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on rails.
The Modular Monolith: Rails Architecture
One of the hardest things about building a startup is handling the rapid growth in team and technology.
3 ways to do eager loading (preloading) in Rails 3 & 4
You are probably already familiar with the method #includes for eager loading data from database if you are using Rails and ActiveRecord. But do you know why you someties get few small and nice SQL queries and sometimes one giant query with every table and column renamed? And do you know about #preload and #eager_load which can help you achieve the same goal? Are you aware of what changed in Rails 4 in that matter? If not, sit down and listen. This lesson won't take long and will help you clarif
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