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Writing better Stimulus controllers

Building lightweight components with Rails Helpers and Stimulus

Combine `redirect_to` and the `anchor` option

Lazy-loading content with Turbo Frames and skeleton loader

Use `to_sql` to see what query ActiveRecord will generate

Prefer returning chainable ActiveRecord objects

Rails validations: unique within a certain scope

Boring breadcrumbs for Rails

Sharing common code between Rails controllers with `Scoped` pattern

Run different ActiveRecord validations based on context

Find records missing an association with `where.missing`

Testing multiple sessions in the same test with Capybara

Pluck single values out of ActiveRecord models or Enumerables

Never mix up greater/less than when comparing dates again

Super readable String operations with `delete_prefix` and `delete_suffix`

Setting CSS classes in Markdown with Jekyll

Use Heroku Dataclips to share query and do ad-hoc data exports

Ensure required environment variables are set when booting up Rails

Search and debug gems with `bundle open`

Automatically cast params with the Rails Attributes API

Show relevant chunks of text with Rails `excerpt` helper

Use Rails `link_to_unless_current` for navigation links

Use Rails `cycle` to avoid `i % 2 == 0` in your view loops

Use the Rails helper `highlight` when showing search results

Magic Responsive Tables with Stimulus and IntersectionObserver

Hacktoberfest Recap: Open source Ruby/Rails work in 2020

Building GitHub-style Hovercards with StimulusJS and HTML-over-the-wire

Feature Flags: The simple way to de-stress production releases

Spring Cleaning: Tidying up your codebase

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Managing Rails schema and data migrations without losing your mind