Rails Designer

Rails Designer @railsdesigner

About: I help teams around the world make their Rails apps a bit nicer to maintain and look at. 🎨 Also kickstart SaaS' in a month. 👷 And built a Rails UI Components library, used by 1000+ developers. 🚀

Location:
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined:
Sep 29, 2023

Rails Designer
articles - 189 total

Add snow to your app with Stimulus

This article was originally published on Rails Designer blog; see the original article for the snow...

Learn More 1 1Dec 18

New: Test and send webhooks and API requests in development

This article was originally published on the Rails Designer Blog Testing webhooks locally is...

Learn More 1 0Dec 11

More readable integer comparisons in Ruby

This article was originally published on Build a SaaS with Rails from Rails Designer Let's be...

Learn More 1 0Dec 10

Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)

This article was originally published on the Rails Designer blog Custom elements are one of...

Learn More 2 1Dec 4

Rails Designer's Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal

This article was originally published on the Rails Designer blog This year, just like last year,...

Learn More 1 0Nov 26

Update favicon with badge using custom turbo streams in Rails

This article was originally published on Rails Designer In a previous article I showed how to...

Learn More 9 1Nov 20

Inline editing with custom elements in Rails

This article was originally published on Rails Designer How would you tackle this feature in a...

Learn More 3 0Nov 13

Update page title counter with custom turbo streams in Rails

This article was originally published on Rails Designer A few weeks ago I helped someone start...

Learn More 1 0Nov 6

Two products, one Rails codebase

This article was originally published on Rails Designer's Build a SaaS (apologies for the title,...

Learn More 3 0Nov 5

Extending the Kanban board (using Rails and Hotwire)

In my previous article about building a Kanban board with Rails and Hotwire, I showed how to create a...

Learn More 6 0Oct 30

Announcing Attractive.js, a new JavaScript-free JavaScript library

This article was originally published on Rails Designer After last week's introduction of Perron,...

Learn More 1 0Oct 23

Introducing Perron: Rails-based static site generator

This article was first published on Rails Designer I am excited to introduce Perron, an OSS...

Learn More 1 1Oct 16

Create a Kanban board with Rails and Hotwire

This article was originally published on Rails Designer This one has been in my "articles...

Learn More 4 3Oct 9

Announcing Forge — self-hosted community software

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Go straight to the site:...

Learn More 1 0Oct 7

Visual loading states for Turbo Frames
with CSS only

This article was originally published on Rails Designer When you use Turbo Frames on your page...

Learn More 1 1Oct 2

Components in Rails without gems

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Quite often I work with various clients...

Learn More 3 0Sep 25

Features your SaaS MVP Don't Need

This article was originally published on Build a SaaS with Rails from Rails Designer Through my...

Learn More 6 3Sep 24

Stimulus basics: what is a Stimulus controller?

This article was originally published on Rails Designer I have written a fair amount on the...

Learn More 1 0Sep 18

Typography for Rails developers

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Using professional typography in your...

Learn More 4 0Sep 11

Flexible Feature Access in Rails SaaS Apps

This article was originally published on Build a SaaS with Rails from Rails Designer When...

Learn More 3 1Sep 10

Modern CSS organization (in Rails)

This article was originally published on Rails Designer I recently launched Rails Designers. The...

Learn More 4 0Sep 4

Shift+Click Selection for Bulk Actions with Stimulus

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Ever needed a “bulk actions” on a list of...

Learn More 1 0Aug 28

Organized Configuration in Rails

This article was originally published on Build a SaaS with Rails from Rails Designer When...

Learn More 1 0Aug 27

User-Specific Content in Turbo Stream Partials

This article was originally published on Rails Designer How would you conditionally show or hide...

Learn More 1 0Aug 21

String Inflectors: bring a bit of Rails into JavaScript

The code from this article, originally published on Rails Designer, was taken from the book...

Learn More 1 0Aug 14

Create a macOS-inspired stack UI with Stimulus and Tailwind CSS

This article was originally published on Rails Designer The other day I accidentally enabled the...

Learn More 1 1Aug 7

Using Subdomains in Rails: Development vs Production

This article was originally published on Rails Designer's build a SaaS series For a current SaaS...

Learn More 1 0Aug 6

Add Konami Codes with Stimulus

This article was originally published on Rails Designer In almost every (SaaS) app (and marketing...

Learn More 1 0Jul 31

Rails Designer's UI Components v1.15: now for ViewComponent v4

v1.15 of Rails Designer's UI Components is here. From this release ViewComponent 4.0 is required....

Learn More 1 0Jul 30

Add a multi-step form/wizard to your Rails app

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Over the years there have been many an...

Learn More 4 0Jul 24