Bringing Hotwire to Basecamp

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Bringing Hotwire to Basecamp

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Bringing Hotwire to Basecamp

Hotwire is now powering Basecamp 3 on the alpha version we're running internally, and I thought it'd be helpful to document the upgrade process. Although upgrading is perhaps a big word. It's not like we rewrote all the JavaScript we have to make this happen. Coexisting is probably a better term.

Rails

Using ActiveRecord Optimistic Locking to prevent overwrites

A basic guide to how ActiveRecord::Locking::Optimistic can help protect your users & application from overwriting data with stale information.

10 Tips and Tricks

I don't get around to doing these too often, but they are always a lot of fun. In this episode, we'll look at ten different Ruby on Rails tips and tricks.

Ruby

Ruby 3.1 compact additions

Ruby 3.1 adds #compact directly to the Enumerable module and Enumerator::Lazy class.

Sidekiq good practices

It seems that writing Sidekiq’s workers it’s quite an effortless task. Still, during my eight-year journey with this great library, I experienced too many issues caused by poorly designed background jobs to believe that it’s an easy thing to do.

Blast from the past

Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right

A step by step guide to migrate your Postgres databases in production environments with zero downtime.

Do You Need Redis? PostgreSQL Does Queuing, Locking, & Pub/Sub

It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.

Beyond Ruby