Your Laravel routes can carry metadata now, and Flare shows it
Laravel now supports attaching arbitrary metadata to routes, and the latest laravel-flare client shows that context in error reports and performance traces.
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Quick tips: Sending Laravel output to Ray automatically
A handy overview of the Ray configuration options in Laravel. You can automatically send duplicate queries, slow queries, exceptions, and dump output straight to Ray without adding any ray() calls to your code.
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Introducing Ray 3.0 original
Ray 3.0 is here! Completely rebuilt for better performance (60% less memory), a fresh new look, message archiving, and MCP support so AI agents can interact with Ray directly.
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From dd() to Ray: A Debugging Workflow That Doesn't Break Your Flow
– tnakov.dev - submitted by Trajche Nakov
Evolving from dd() to Ray for a smoother workflow. Explore how Ray can boost your debugging game without stopping your code!
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From dd() to Ray: A Debugging Workflow That Doesn't Break Your Flow
I fully agree (but I might not be totally objective here 🙂)
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Automatically fix production and performance problems in PHP and Laravel projects using AI
You can now use our MCP server to connect your AI agent to Flare. This way your AI has all context it needs to diagnose and fix production and performance problems of your PHP, JavaScript and Laravel projects.
In this blog post I’d like to tell you how you can use it, and how it works under the hood.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Why Your Laravel Relationship Returns an Integer (and How to Fix It)
– infinitypaul.medium.com - submitted by Paul Edward
Sometimes, no matter how senior you are, little issues like this can humble you. I recently faced a confusing issue where I was expecting a relationship to give me a User object, but instead, it just gave me a number! After two days of scratching my head, I finally figured out what went wrong.
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Using Ray inside your Blade views
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
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Leveraging the Power of Macros in Ray
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
Leveraging the Power of Macros in Ray.
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Introducing Laravel Error Share
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
Introducing Laravel Error Share, simply share and debug local errors with your team!
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Assigning a user to an error
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
Learn how you can assign a user to an error in Flare!
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Clearing Ray output
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
Learn how to clear your Ray window whenever you want so that only the most recent output is displayed.
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Pausing and disabling Ray execution
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
This is one of Ray's coolest features!
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Introducing Flare's Linear integration
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
Discover Flare's latest Linear integration
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Ray now supports Laravel 11's Context
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
You can now quickly view what's stored in Laravel's context array.
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Ignition and Flare can now display Laravel 11's context
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
Ignition got a little bit better again.
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Sniffing out stray ray() calls with Pest architecture testing
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
Whether you're building a shiny new feature or refactoring a bug deep in a legacy codebase, before you merge your work to production you want to get rid of all those ray() calls you littered the codebase with.
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The Business of Bisecting
At PHPUKConference 2024 I saw this excellent talk by Pauline Vos on a pretty powerful git feature: bisect.
Pest comes with Ray integration out of the box
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
Discover how Pest offers a Ray integration out of the box!
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Flare ❤️ GitLab original
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
An introduction to the Flare GitLab integration!
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