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Nov

Cleaning Up Stale Git Branches Locally & On Github

I've built up tons of stale branches and wanted to clean them up locally and on origin. These commands take care of that.

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2025

3 min read

26

Aug

Archiving Rails Database Migrations by Year

This rake task helps archive old database migrations into /db/migrate/archives/{yyyy}/ folders.

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2025

2 min read

22

Jul

How To Organize ViewComponents in Rails

Some examples of common folder namespaces I will use for organizing ViewComponents

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2025

2 min read

21

Jul

A Custom Outdated Gems Script to Speed Up Rails Dependency Upgrades [+ Video]

I built a custom implementation of `bundle outdated` that adds more granular data on number of versions available, release dates, readme links, explicit vs implicit status, and then helps automate the process of pivot tabling the audit results to create a custom outdated gems audit.

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2025

7 min read

19

Jun

The Ideal CMS Structure For Rails

After working on WordPress for 20 years, Ghost for 5 years, and Rails for 8 years, this is the pattern I wish all Rails apps would use for basic content pages.

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2025

10 min read

19

Jun

How to Generate a Custom Heroku Maintenance Mode Page

You can set a simple ENV VAR to deliver a custom branded Maintenance Mode landing page.

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2025

2 min read

03

Apr

How to generate nicer sitemaps with the sitemap_generator gem

Let's walk through our /config/sitemap.rb setup with `sitemap_generator` to break up our sitemap structure into multiple files.

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2025

7 min read

03

Apr

How to Test SEO Meta Tag Requirements in RSpec

Recently I have been testing various SEO requirements in a Rails app that uses Rspec. After copy and pasting expect(

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2025

3 min read