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Gaurav Varma

Gaurav Varma

Hi, I’m Gaurav. I’m a Ruby on Rails developer living in Pune, Maharashtra, India. I am a fan of technology, design, and entrepreneurship. I’m also interested in SASS and writing blogs.

Rails 7 Adds from option to ActiveSupport::TestCase#assert_no_changes

Nov 9, 20212 min read45 views

Rails Active Support provides various extensions, utilities, and helpers. It provides a collection of utility classes and standard library extensions...

Rails 7 Adds from option to ActiveSupport::TestCase#assert_no_changes

Rails 7 replaced byebug with ruby/debug

Nov 9, 20212 min read16 views

Rails 5 introduced byebug which is an easy-to-use, feature-rich ruby debugger. It offers features like Stepping, Breaking, Evaluating, Tracking. Using...

Rails 7 replaced byebug with ruby/debug

Rails 7 adds weekday_options_for_select and weekday_select

Nov 9, 20213 min read26 views

In web applications, forms are one of the most essential interfaces for user input and it can be tedious to write and maintain form markups with...

Rails 7 adds weekday_options_for_select and weekday_select

Rails 7 adds ActiveRecord::Base#previously_persisted?

Nov 9, 20212 min read15 views

Active Record in Rails provides various methods like exists?, persisted?, destroyed? and many more. Using these methods we can easily determine if an...

Rails 7 adds ActiveRecord::Base#previously_persisted?

Rails 7 adds the ability to use pre-defined variants

Oct 19, 20212 min read31 views

Rails 5.2 introduced ActiveStorage which made it possible to easily upload files to a cloud storage service like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, or...

Rails 7 adds the ability to use pre-defined variants

Rails 7 adds ComparisonValidator to ActiveRecord

Oct 5, 20212 min read21 views

Rails Active Record Validation provides a convenient way to validate the state of an object before it is stored in the database. There are various...

Rails 7 adds ComparisonValidator to ActiveRecord