Ruby · 07 Jan 2026

Small tweak to upgrade rubygems

This is just a small tweak that will help you in upgrading rubygems successfully. 

gem install rubygems-update -v 3.5.23 # installing gem
update_rubygems # updating rubygems from the gem
gem update --system # updating system
 
Ruby · 06 Jul 2025

How to use EXPLAIN ANALYZE in Rails 6

As you might now, Rails 7 allows us to use explain with parameters.

From now on, we can use it for example with analyze: true flag, which gives us much more information about the query.

In Rails this option is not available, but we can use some tricks to show the result simply.

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Ruby · 16 Dec 2024

How CSRF Tokens work in Ruby on Rails?

All modern frameworks offer protection against CSRF attacks, so these attacks are not as common anymore.
However, this does not mean we don't need to understand what they are and how to protect ourselves from them.

In this article, I will explain what a Rails engineer needs to know about CSRF.

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