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2025

Beautiful Rails confirmation dialogs (with zero JavaScript)original ↗
15 Dec 2025
Hotwire components that refresh themselvesoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2025

2024

Event sourcing for smooth brains: building a basic event-driven system in Railsoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2024

2023

Writing better Action Mailers: Revisiting a core Rails conceptoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2023

2022

Sorting ActiveRecord results by enum values (in SQL)original ↗
10 Oct 2022
Thinking in Hotwire: Progressive Enhancementoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2022
Galaxy brain CSS tricks with Hotwire and Railsoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2022
Adding keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys to StimulusJSoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2022
The most underrated Rails helper: dom_idoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2022
Self-destructing StimulusJS controllersoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2022
Tailwind style CSS transitions with StimulusJSoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2022
Dynamic user content in Rails with Liquid tagsoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2022
Accessing Rails environment variables from a StimulusJS Controlleroriginal ↗
20 Jan 2022
Rails validations: database level check constraintsoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2022

2021

Debugging slow Heroku buildsoriginal ↗
17 May 2021
Quickly explore your data with `uniq` and `tally`original ↗
5 May 2021
Improving your Rails mailers with `email_address_with_name`original ↗
3 May 2021
Building lightweight components with Rails Helpers and Stimulusoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2021
Combine `redirect_to` and the `anchor` optionoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2021
Lazy-loading content with Turbo Frames and skeleton loaderoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2021
Building a Rails CI pipeline with GitHub Actionsoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2021
Use `to_sql` to see what query ActiveRecord will generateoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2021
Prefer returning chainable ActiveRecord objectsoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2021
Rails validations: unique within a certain scopeoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2021
Boring breadcrumbs for Railsoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2021
Sharing common code between Rails controllers with `Scoped` patternoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2021
Run different ActiveRecord validations based on contextoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2021
Find records missing an association with `where.missing`original ↗
4 Mar 2021
Testing multiple sessions in the same test with Capybaraoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2021
Pluck single values out of ActiveRecord models or Enumerablesoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2021
Never mix up greater/less than when comparing dates againoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2021
Super readable String operations with `delete_prefix` and `delete_suffix`original ↗
22 Feb 2021
Setting CSS classes in Markdown with Jekyll / Bridgetownoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2021
Use Heroku Dataclips to share query and do ad-hoc data exportsoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2021
Ensure required environment variables are set when booting up Railsoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2021
Search and debug gems with `bundle open`original ↗
16 Feb 2021
Automatically cast params with the Rails Attributes APIoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2021
Show relevant chunks of text with Rails `excerpt` helperoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2021
Use Rails `link_to_unless_current` for navigation linksoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2021
Use Rails `cycle` to avoid `i % 2 == 0` in your view loopsoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2021
Use the Rails helper `highlight` when showing search resultsoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2021
Magic Responsive Tables with Stimulus and IntersectionObserveroriginal ↗
13 Jan 2021

2020

Hacktoberfest Recap: Open source Ruby/Rails work in 2020original ↗
16 Nov 2020
Building GitHub-style Hovercards with StimulusJS and HTML-over-the-wireoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2020
Writing better StimulusJS controllersoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2020
Feature Flags: The stupid simple way to de-stress production releasesoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2020
Spring Cleaning: Tidying up your codebaseoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2020
Wrangling slow reports, large file exports, and long-running tasks in Rails with Active Joboriginal ↗
26 Jan 2020

2019

Managing Rails schema and data migrations without losing your mindoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2019