The Ray blog

Shining a light on internals and updates.

Clearing Ray output

Frequent Ray calls can lead to a long and cluttered Ray log. However, you can take control of the log and clear it at various tages of the application and testing lifecycle.

Zuzana

Ray now supports Laravel 11's Context

Laravel 11 recently introduced a nice new feature called Context. We’ve updated Ray with a convenient method to display all set context.

Freek

The ingredients we used for our new Ray docs

We recently revamped our Ray documentation. The goal was to give the docs a new home on the myray.app domain and make them easier to navigate by totally overhauling their structure and content. This blog post will give an overview of some packages, technologies, and techniques we used.

Tim

Adding wire:navigate to Markdown links

We just released our new Ray docs, check 'em out if you haven't already! They're hosted right here on myray.app and are extra snappy because they use Livewire's navigate feature. Here's how we added wire:navigate to all the links in our docs.

Sebastian

Pest comes with Ray integration out of the box

Pest is an excellent test runner for PHP, that’s been getting more popular. It offers a developer friendly way of writing tests. At Spatie, we use it for all our projects. Did you know that Pest comes with Ray support out of the box? Let’s take a look at this very simple test from one of our own packages.

Freek

Sniffing out stray ray() calls with Pest architecture testing

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. You'll probably get rid of most of them on time, but every now and then a stray call gets forgotten during code review.

Sebastian

Find where a method was called in PHP

Methods that get called in a bunch of different places can be tricky to debug. Find out where your methods are called with debug_backtrace().

Sebastian

Copy output from Ray to your clipboard

At Spatie, we keep working on Ray continuously. We’re adding small quality-of-life improvements every week. We’re happy to announce that you can now copy logged arrays and objects to your clipboard from Ray.

Tim

Use Ray to find queries that are slowing you down in your Laravel project

Database queries are often one of the main bottlenecks when it comes down to your app’s speed. Not only is it important to give your users a snappy experience of your app, slow queries can cause major problems when your app is experiencing high load. Luckily Ray makes it super easy to find out what queries you should optimize.

Tim

Testing mails in Laravel using Ray

One of the most valuable features of Ray is its ability to preview emails in your local environment. This feature will also help you test entire mail flows.

Freek

Ray is the best home for Next.js debugging output

Next.js development comes with a unique challenge when it comes to debug logging. With different rendering options and environments, I've found myself switching between the node.js developer console and the browser console too many times.

Sam

Understand and fix bugs faster

Ray is a desktop application that serves as the dedicated home for debugging output. Send, format and filter debug information from both local projects and remote servers.

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