Rails Framework

Packwerk enables lightweight modular Rails projects. It is a flexible, low overhead alternative to Rails Engines. Crucially, for established code it allows a gradual migration and to only enforce module boundaries when the code is sufficiently refactored with low coupling.

Organizing Code Gems and Engines have long been used to organize Ruby and Rails code into workable small units. Shopify has introduced a new system called ‘packages’ - they use the packwerk gem to help us.

It’s possible to loosen the Coupling between Rails, Models and Controllers from your Business Logic (Commands/Service Objects) by enabling an Event architecture. Ruby has several lightweight Event Buses (& full featured and Event Stores)

In a complex application validations, models, controllers can quickly get complex - command objects can simplify this - especially as of Rails 5.2

update GEMS library gem update –system be sure bundler is installed gem install bundler update Bundler library bundle update –bundler update Ruby rbenv install 3.1.1 rbenv global 3.1.1 or asdf install ruby 3.

Devise offers a lot of useful User management, but has no Passwordless Strategy - here’s how to do it

Passwordless Authentication is very convenient for users and generally as secure as passwords (according to many articles as long as the email access-links are short-lived - as email is not very secure).

Several simple approaches to password-less rails authentication

I thought it would be fun to test the new alpha version of rails - but I always forget how to do this without upgrading an existing projects. Discover the Rails Pre-release versions gem list rails --remote --prerelease -e –remote - checks the rubygems site - not the locally installed versions –prerelease - find pre-release versions -e - use an exact match (many packages have rails in the name).

String inputs that strip away leading, trailing and double spaces using typed virtual attributes