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.

Cleaner Rails Controllers with before_action

Feb 1, 20253 min read420 views

If you have two or more render statements in your controller action, you might consider extracting some of the logic into a before action. Why?...

Cleaner Rails Controllers with before_action

Advice Comes with an Implied Asterisk

Feb 1, 20251 min read15 views

In software development we’re often given advice in absolute terms: “Service Objects are an anti-pattern.” “Keep your controllers skinny.” “Vanilla...

Advice Comes with an Implied Asterisk

Keep Your Controllers CRUD-y

Jan 27, 20252 min read1.2K 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 read227 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 read22 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 read142 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