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 - 141 total

Turbo Drive, Frames, Streams, Morph? What to use?!

This article was originally published on Rails Designer The Hotwire trifecta allows you to write...

Learn More 2 0May 1

Enhanced debugging for Stimulus

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Stimulus has a basic debug mode that...

Learn More 4 1Apr 28

Sanitize your strings in JavaScript like a Rails developer

This article, originally published on Rails Designer, is extracted from the book JavaScript for Rails...

Learn More 1 0Apr 24

Keep Active Record models clean with Decorators

This article was originally published on Rails Designer's Build a SaaS. There is no shortage of...

Learn More 2 1Apr 23

JavaScript for Rails Developers is out now

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Ruby is Red, JavaScript is yellow, Two...

Learn More 8 0Apr 17

JavaScript Console Utilities You (Didn't) Know

This article (initially published on Rails Designer) was taken, but adapted for the web, from the...

Learn More 1 0Apr 10

Beyond translations in Stimulus: formatting dates, time and currency

This articles was previously published on Rails Designer In a previous article I showed various...

Learn More 4 0Apr 3

Create an Email Drip Campaign Using Rails Vault

This article is part of Build a SaaS with Rails and was previously published on Rails Designer I...

Learn More 1 0Apr 2

Touch Events (swipe) using Stimulus

This article was originally published on Rails Designer The time you build and design web-apps...

Learn More 1 1Mar 27

Translations in Stimulus Controllers

This article was originally published on Rails Designer This is a sneak peek from the recently...

Learn More 3 0Mar 20

Coming Soon: JavaScript for Rails Developers

This articles was originally published on Rails Designer Late last year I sat down and looked at...

Learn More 1 0Mar 18

Using the Keyboard with Stimulus

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Giving your users the option to use the...

Learn More 1 0Mar 13

Limit Spam Sign Ups in Rails Apps

This article was originally published on Rails Designer's Build a SaaS with Ruby on Rails If you...

Learn More 2 0Mar 12

Build a Notion-like editor with Rails, part 2

This article was originally published on Rails Designer In the first part of Build a Notion-like...

Learn More 3 0Mar 6

Create an Animated Counter in Stimulus

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Having a general purpose counter Stimulus...

Learn More 3 0Feb 27

Alternative to Ruby's Monkey Patching

This article was originally published on Rails Designer's Build a SaaS with Ruby on Rails One of...

Learn More 2 0Feb 26

Introducing Rails Vault: simple to add settings to any ActiveRecord model

This article was originally published on Rails Designer When you build advanced UI's for your...

Learn More 2 0Feb 20

How to Send Requests from Stimulus Controllers

This article was originally published on Rails Designer When working with the Hotwire stack, most...

Learn More 5 0Feb 13

Build Features from the Outside In

This article is part of a new Rails Designer section, called Build a SaaS with Rails Depending on...

Learn More 3 0Feb 12

Rails Designer v1.13: Updated to Tailwind CSS v4

Great to see you again! ☺️ Back once again with a new update. We are on on a roll! 🛼 The Rails...

Learn More 2 1Feb 7

Build a Notion-like editor with Rails

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Notion had for a long-time a neat...

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Multiple component variants with Tailwind

This article was originally published on Rails Designer One thing vanilla CSS does really well is...

Learn More 2 0Jan 30

Rails link_to_if and link_to_unless

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Rails is packed with nifty, small helpers...

Learn More 2 0Jan 27

6 Free Icon Libraries for Rails Apps

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Icons are a must in any software app....

Learn More 6 1Jan 23

Gems I use for Rails SaaS apps

This article was originally published on Build a SaaS with Rails Being a Ruby on Rails developer...

Learn More 7 0Jan 22

Rails Designer v1.11: Rails Icons now a default

Welcome to the first edition of 2025. First off: 2024 was amazing! ✨ The UI components library...

Learn More 1 1Jan 17

Introducing Rails Stats: view LoC of Rails Products

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Ever wondered about how big a Rails...

Learn More 3 1Jan 16

Use cases for Turbo's Custom Events

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Turbo emits various Custom events before,...

Learn More 1 0Jan 9

Add Invite to Rails 8 Authentication

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Build a SaaS This is the third article on...

Learn More 4 1Jan 8

How to order attributes on HTML elements

This article was originally published on Rails Designer The order of attributes on HTML elements...

Learn More 1 0Jan 6