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When authoring CSS we have to carefully think about how we write and structure our code. Cascade Layers (CSS @layer) aim to ease this task.

DHH recently announced that Hotwire is going to be included in Rails 7 by default. Due to its...

If someone steals your password, they can pretend to be you. That's why many companies provide two-factor or multi-factor authentication via a fingerprint scan, a YubiKey, an authenticator app, or SMS. In this article, Petr Hlavicka will give you a solid foundation of knowledge about multi-factor...

In most of the Rails apps I've built over the years I've had to add my own helpers for a weekday...

The third major release of Stimulus represents a big milestone for the Hotwire community. This is the first release where every substantial new feature came as a contribution from outside of Basecamp and HEY. We've got a new package, action parameters, default values, target lifecycle callbacks, debug mode, utility-CSS support, and Con...

Simplify and clarify your code by carefully choosing abstractions.

In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors.

A lot of times, people ask what’s Ruby good for apart from Rails. Ruby is great for various tasks from several different domains, and today, I would like to share how anybody can use Ruby in publishing ebooks.

Have you ever been in a situation where you wish you could have some control over the values in an object or array? Maybe you wanted to prevent certain

Build a search-as-you-type text box with Turbo, Stimulus, and Rails.

In this article we will discuss and demonstrate how we can use Ruby to encode UUIDs into URL friendly representations. This article does not assume any previous knowledge about UUIDs. Instead we will first discuss what exactly a UUID is. We look at all the reasons we would prefer using...

Turbo-charge your Article drafting feedback cycle with Hotwire-powered live previews.

It's the time of year again, and with it comes a bundle of new Ruby 3.1 features getting approved and...

Starting with v2021.2, RubyMine provides code assistance for working with RBS files, along with all of the essential features that make RBS code easier to read. Here’s a brief overview. Creating RB

The following article shows the benefits of investing some of your time into adding RBS declarations to your project. Catch type errors RubyMine performs real-time type checking based on the informati

The road to 1.0, plus upcoming opportunities to contribute to that vision to make it a reality.

ECMAScript, the standardized version of JavaScript is increasing its popularity and is becoming...

The problem to be solved As a Rails application grows, its controllers tend to accumulate actions beyond the seven RESTful actions (index, show, new, edit, create, update and destroy). The more “custom” actions there are, the harder it can be to understand and work with the controller. Here are three tactics I use to keep …

Hotwire is a way to build modern web applications without much JavaScript by sending HTML over the wire. In this article, Renata Marques introduces us to Hotwire and walks us through a simple example.

Monkeypatching can be a great way to improve existing code if used right. Let's find out how.

Disclaimer: It should be noted that the provided HTML fails to implement the necessary ARIA...

A primer on avoiding duplicates in database tables that back your multi-threaded Rails applications with runnable examples

Bring your brand color to built-in HTML form inputs with one line of code.

I didn't much care for vanilla JavaScript prior to ES6. Through all of the 2000s, I chased different approaches to avoid writing too much of it. First there was RJS (Ruby-to-JavaScript). Then there was CoffeeScript. Both transpiling approaches that turned more enjoyable-to-write source code into the kind of JavaScript that browsers wou...