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A Story about Test Coverage Metrics

Once upon a time, there was a Ruby on Rails programmer called John. John cared about testing his code very thoroughly.

Building a Docker Image for your Rails Application - Part 3

This is the last part of the series on building a Docker image for your Ruby on Rails application.

Building a Docker Image for your Rails Application - Part 2

Replacing Select2 with Tom Select + Stimulus

We all used Select2. We all depended on it for a long time, for all our Select/Autocomplete needs. But it’s been showing signs of aging for quite a while, and it’s one of the last libraries that still keeps me tied to jQuery.

Building a Docker Image for your Rails Application - Part 1

Wether you are running apps on your own infrastructure or deploying to the cloud, there are many reasons to containerize your Rails application. However, the template generated by rails new doesn’t help you there, as the generated code has to be adapted to run in Docker. You will need to do some modifications to the app and add a carefully designed Dockerfile, which is important for speeding up build times and reducing the image size. That’s what this post is about.