Mark Godwin

Mark Godwin

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Hone your Ruby on Rails craft. Tips, tricks, and articles from a professional engineer with 10+ years of experience.

Keep Your Controllers CRUD-y

Jan 27, 20252 min read954 views

Anytime your controllers start to accumulate non-standard CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) action names, you may consider extracting the action...

Keep Your Controllers CRUD-y

Consistently Handle Errors with a ModelErrors Concern

Jan 25, 20252 min read196 views

💡 Trigger Warning! This approach may be considered controversial, especially since it touches on using exceptions for control flow. This is a...

Consistently Handle Errors with a ModelErrors Concern

Rails Controller-Specific Middleware

Jan 24, 20251 min read12 views

Did you know you can set controller-specific middleware in your Rails controller with the use method? I found this while looking through the docs for...

Rails Controller-Specific Middleware

Safe Rails Selects with Bound Parameters

Apr 2, 20241 min read132 views

Recently, we were trying to write a similarity(...) query in Postgres, and needed to pass in a parameter into a SELECT clause. Brakeman came back...

Safe Rails Selects with Bound Parameters