--- title: "Blogs by Prathamesh Sonpatki" description: "Read BigBinary blog posts by Prathamesh Sonpatki." canonical_url: "https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/authors/prathamesh" markdown_url: "https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/authors/prathamesh.md" --- # Blogs by Prathamesh Sonpatki Read BigBinary blog posts by Prathamesh Sonpatki. ## Posts ### Rails 6 has added a way to change the database of the app [Rails 6 has added a way to change the database of the app](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-has-added-a-way-to-change-the-database-of-the-app) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: April 30, 2019 - Categories: Rails 6, Rails It is possible to change the database configuration using a simple command ### Rails 6 drops support for PostgreSQL version less than 9.3 [Rails 6 drops support for PostgreSQL version less than 9.3](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-drops-support-for-postgresql-less-than-9-3) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: April 10, 2019 - Categories: Rails 6, Rails Rails 6 has dropped support for PostgreSQL versions less than 9.3 ### Rails 6 database seed uses inline Active Job adapter [Rails 6 database seed uses inline Active Job adapter](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/database-seeding-task-uses-inline-active-job-adapter-in-rails-6) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: April 3, 2019 - Categories: Rails 6, Rails Rails 6 uses inline Active Job adapter for background processing related to db:seed task ### Rails 6 shows routes in expanded format [Rails 6 shows routes in expanded format](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-shows-routes-in-expanded-format) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: March 27, 2019 - Categories: Rails 6, Rails Rails 6 has added ability to show the routes in an expanded format ### Rails 6 shows unpermitted params in logs in color [Rails 6 shows unpermitted params in logs in color](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-shows-unpermitted-params-in-logs-in-color) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: March 18, 2019 - Categories: Rails 6, Rails The unpermitted params are shown in red color for better visibility ### Rails 6 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#pick [Rails 6 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#pick](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-adds-activerecord-relation-pick) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: January 16, 2019 - Categories: Rails 6 Rails 6 added a shortcut to select first value for a group of columns from a relation ### Skipping devise trackable module for API calls [Skipping devise trackable module for API calls](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/skip-devise-trackable-module-for-api-calls) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: October 30, 2018 - Categories: Rails This blog post discusses about issues faced due to devise trackable module for API calls and how to skip it ### Ruby 2.6 adds exception parameters for Integer & Float methods [Ruby 2.6 adds exception parameters for Integer & Float methods](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-6-adds-option-to-not-raise-exception-for-integer-float-methods) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: July 31, 2018 - Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby Instead of raising exception, we can pass a keyword argument and the type conversion methods will return nil ### RubyKaigi 2018 Day two [RubyKaigi 2018 Day two](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rubykaigi-2018-day-two) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: June 1, 2018 - Categories: Ruby Ground report of Day two from Sendai, Japan where RubyKaigi 2018 is happening ### RubyKaigi 2018 Day one [RubyKaigi 2018 Day one](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rubykaigi-2018-day-one) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: May 31, 2018 - Categories: Ruby Ground report of Day one from Sendai, Japan where RubyKaigi 2018 is happening ### Ruby 2.5 allows creating structs with keyword arguments [Ruby 2.5 allows creating structs with keyword arguments](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-5-allows-creating-structs-with-keyword-arguments) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: January 16, 2018 - Categories: Ruby 2.5, Ruby We can now create structs by passing keyword arguments using a flag keyword_init ### Rails 5.2 allows mailers to use custom Active Job class [Rails 5.2 allows mailers to use custom Active Job class](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-5-2-allows-mailers-to-use-custom-active-job-class) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: January 15, 2018 - Categories: Rails 5.2, Rails Rails now allows to configure a job class for a mailer so that we can use custom Active Job classes per mailer ### Ruby 2.5 adds Hash#transform_keys method [Ruby 2.5 adds Hash#transform_keys method](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-5-adds-hash-transform_keys-method) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: January 9, 2018 - Categories: Ruby 2.5, Ruby Neat way to transform keys of the Hash, now natively supported by Ruby ### Rails 5.2 pass request params to Action Mailer previews [Rails 5.2 pass request params to Action Mailer previews](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-5-2-allows-passing-request-params-to-action-mailer-previews) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: January 8, 2018 - Categories: Rails 5.2, Rails A neat way to pass the params to the Action Mailer previews directly for better debugging ### Ruby 2.5 enumerable predicates accept pattern argument [Ruby 2.5 enumerable predicates accept pattern argument](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-5-enumerable-predicates-accept-pattern-argument) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: January 2, 2018 - Categories: Ruby 2.5, Ruby all?, any?, one? and none? method accept a single pattern argument and perform case equality with that argument and it's contents ### Rails 5.2 adds bootsnap to the app to speed up boot time [Rails 5.2 adds bootsnap to the app to speed up boot time](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-5-2-adds-bootsnap-to-the-app-to-speed-up-boot-time) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: January 1, 2018 - Categories: Rails 5.2, Rails Rails 5.2 adds bootsnap gem to the Gemfile of newly created app so as to speed up boot time ### Ruby 2.5 requires pp by default [Ruby 2.5 requires pp by default](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-5-requires-pp-by-default) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: December 20, 2017 - Categories: Ruby 2.5, Ruby No need to require pp separately now, it is required'd by default ### Array#prepend and Array#append in Ruby 2.5 [Array#prepend and Array#append in Ruby 2.5](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/array-prepend-and-array-append-in-ruby-2-5) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: December 19, 2017 - Categories: Ruby 2.5, Ruby Better names for existing Array#unshift and Array#push methods ### Elm Conf 2017 Summary [Elm Conf 2017 Summary](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/elm-conf-2017-summary) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: October 4, 2017 - Categories: Misc Summary of Elm Conf 2017 that took place on Sept. 28 2017 in St. Loius, MO, USA ### New Syntax for HTML Tag helpers in Rails 5.1 [New Syntax for HTML Tag helpers in Rails 5.1](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/new-syntax-for-tag-helpers-in-rails-5-1) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: August 23, 2017 - Categories: Rails 5.1, Rails Rails 5.1 introduces new shorter syntax for HTML tag helpers ### Rails 5.1 has introduced Date#all_day helper [Rails 5.1 has introduced Date#all_day helper](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-5-1-has-introduced-date-all_day-helper) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: April 24, 2017 - Categories: Rails 5.1, Rails Rails 5.1 has introduced a helper method for creating a range object covering the whole day for given date ### Ruby 2.4 unifies Fixnum and Bignum into Integer [Ruby 2.4 unifies Fixnum and Bignum into Integer](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-4-unifies-fixnum-and-bignum-into-integer) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: November 18, 2016 - Categories: Ruby 2.4, Ruby Ruby 2.4 has unified Fixnum and Bignum into Integer class. It has also deprecated usage of Fixnum and Bignum ### Hash#compact and Hash#compact! now part of Ruby 2.4 [Hash#compact and Hash#compact! now part of Ruby 2.4](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/hash-compact-and-hash-compact-now-part-of-ruby-2-4) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: October 24, 2016 - Categories: Ruby 2.4, Ruby Ruby 2.4 has added Hash#compact and Hash#compact! methods into core ### Rails 5 - What's in it for me? [Rails 5 - What's in it for me?](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-5-webinar) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: April 22, 2016 - Categories: Rails 5, Rails Learn more about upcoming changes in Rails 5 release ### Rendering views outside of controllers in Rails 5 [Rendering views outside of controllers in Rails 5](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rendering-views-outside-of-controllers-in-rails-5) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: January 8, 2016 - Categories: Rails 5, Rails Rails 5 allows rendering views outside of controllers. It has many benefits like now views can be used in Mailers and other places. ### Test runner in Rails 5 [Test runner in Rails 5](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/test-runner-in-rails-5) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: January 3, 2016 - Categories: Rails 5, Rails Running tests got much easier in Rails 5. Now failing tests point to line number and makes it easier to re run a failing test. There are many more goodies. ### ApplicationRecord in Rails 5 [ApplicationRecord in Rails 5](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/application-record-in-rails-5) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: December 28, 2015 - Categories: Rails 5, Rails If we want to add a functionality to all models we no longer need to pollute whole ActiveRecord::Base. Just add that feature to ApplicationRecord. ### Optimize JavaScript code using BabelJS [Optimize JavaScript code using BabelJS](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/code-optimize-javascript-code-using-babeljs) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: August 26, 2015 - Categories: JavaScript Use BabelJS to optimize JavaScript code. In reality you might not use it to optimize code but this blog will show you tricks BabelJS is capable of. ### Gotcha with after_commit callback in Rails [Gotcha with after_commit callback in Rails](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/gotcha-with-after_commit-callback-in-rails) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: March 1, 2015 - Categories: Rails Gotcha with after_commit callback in Rails ### Blue border around JWPLAYER video [Blue border around JWPLAYER video](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/blue-border-around-jwplayer-video) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: February 21, 2015 - Categories: Misc How to remove blue border around JWPlayer ### Migrating existing session cookies while upgrading [Migrating existing session cookies while upgrading](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/migrating-existing-session-cookies-while-upgrading-to-rails-4-1-and-above) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: December 23, 2014 - Categories: Rails Safely upgrade to Rails 4.1 and migrate existing session cookies without forcing users to login again. ### Tricks and Tips for using Fixtures effectively in Rails [Tricks and Tips for using Fixtures effectively in Rails](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/tricks-and-tips-for-using-fixtures-in-rails) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: September 21, 2014 - Categories: Rails Tricks and Tips for using Fixtures effectively in Rails ### RedDotRubyConf 2014 [RedDotRubyConf 2014](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/reddotrubyconf) - Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki - Published: July 1, 2014 - Categories: Rails This post talks about our experiences attending RedDotRubyConf 2014 in Singapore. ## Links - [Human page](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/authors/prathamesh)