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Rails Way is a software development paradigm that implies sticking to the framework architectural defaults as much as possible. Everyone starts with the Rails Way, but how far can you get without derailing from it? Let's talk about the Rails Way core principles, how they evolved over time, and how you can embrace and enhanced it using the layered design techniques.

What are tooltips, exactly? There's two kinds and the one you use has implications on the user experience, as Zell illustrates in this explainer on best practices.

Hint: you need more than good intentions

Someone asked on Twitter yesterday about the how to add TailwindCSS to a Rails 8 project the easiest way and having hot reload. This is how I believe it is to do so in a few minutes.

Interacting with third-party APIs is common practice in applications. This is where the structural design pattern called facade comes into play.

There are many platforms offering visual page builder. For example, website builders like Wix, Webflow; fundraising platforms like Raisely…

Meeting-free days means more productivity, right? More time for focused work. When should, or should you not, press that big ‘+’ button on your calendar?

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Cloud applications can feel...

Paul shows you how to easily load JSON into Postgres relational format with JSON_TABLE, just released in Postgres 17.

This is my personal site, where I write about Ruby, programming, and any of my varied fascinations.

Sick of flaky Rails system tests? Try blaming Selenium and swapping it with Playwright! I did and it's going great. Here's how

Wondering how Solid Queue works on the inside? Read this article to follow a Solid Queue job from enqueue to completion.

Add custom behavior to turbo:before-stream-render listener to add smooth transitions to turbo stream when adding and removing elements.

Let's explore everything that Rails 8 has to offer.

Lessons from GitLab, Doist, PostHog, and more.

We've all been there: you're working on a website and need to display a row of logos—clients, partners, sponsors—you name it. However, logos come in all shapes and sizes, and making them look good together can be quite challenging. How do you get...

Kevin Andrews shares some useful snippets of markup with handy explainers to help you deliver more accessible components.

ActiveStorage’s DirectUpload feature allows files to be directly uploaded to your Cloud’s storage without touching your app’s server.

The Decide, Evolve, React pattern in Ruby, explained step by step

Ruby is a language that consistently evolves to make code more expressive, concise, and readable. With the release of Ruby 3.4, one of the exciting new features introduced is the use of it as a shortcut for the first parameter in a block. This enhancement aims to simplify code, especially in situations where blocks are used extensively, reducing the need to explicitly declare block parameters.

While we are waiting for the Rails World 2024 conference to start and Kamal 2 to be released, I decided to make some preparations for the upcoming changes in the Rails ecosystem.

A from-scratch breakdown of how Rails' Propshaft system serves up static assets automagically and quickly, with graphics and stories to boot!

Morphs, Presence and Typing Indicators

Explore an easy way to drag & drop images using Stimulus while using the Outlets API to preview the dropped image.

Radan here: this is another guest post by Miha. He was so excited about it that he interrupted my weekend with a brand new post to review. I still found it interesting, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! Back to Miha now.