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Rails ActiveRecord models have a lifecycle that developers are allowed to hook into. But while most of us know about `before_save` and...

I use the Chrome [history](chrome://history/) tab when I forget about
something I’ve looked up in the past. I initially thought that the data...

This is something that many may already use as a best practice, but if not it’s something simple and convenient to add to your repertoire....

ActiveRecord callbacks can be super-handy, but every once in a while, they get in the way. I was recently working on a client project and I had to...

Rails’s named_scopes are great, and the ability to chain named_scopes together are even better. I am sure many of us have done something like this...

The addition of RESTful routing and the #to_param method in Rails has undoubtedly improved both the ease and usefulness of URL generation in Rails...

Often times in an application you might want to know how many of a given model were created today. Rather than writing a custom method for each...

I’ve been working a lot with seed data in my applications lately, and it’s obviously a problem that can be pretty aggravating to deal with. I...