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 - 153 total

Creating a Simple Embeddable JavaScript Widget for Your Rails App

This article, originally published on Rails Designer, was taken from the book: JavaScript for Rails...

Learn More 6 5Jun 26

Auto-pause Video Player with Stimulus

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Ever seen videos on popular (social...

Learn More 1 0Jun 19

Introducing Turbo Transition: create smoother Turbo Streams

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Ever wondered how to add more joy to...

Learn More 1 0Jun 12

Refactoring an if/else hell in JavaScript

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

Learn More 1 0Jun 5

10 Modern CSS Features You Want to Use

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Just like JavaScript, CSS hasn't the best...

Learn More 3 6May 29

Rails dom_id helper without exposing the primary id

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Rails' dom_id is a useful little helper...

Learn More 1 2May 26

Create a Markdown-Powered Textarea with Stimulus

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Today I want to explore how to recreate...

Learn More 2 1May 22

Salut Courrier! A New Ruby Gem to Send Emails

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Salut Courrier! 👋 📮 Courrier is a new...

Learn More 2 0May 15

Natural Language Parser for Recurring Events using Stimulus

This article was originally published on Rails Designer In this article I explored how I add...

Learn More 3 0May 13

Recurring Calendar Events in Rails

This article was originally published on Rails Designer Last week I released v1.14 of Rails...

Learn More 3 0May 8

Adding Magic Links to Rails 8 Authentication

This article was originally publish on Build a SaaS by Rails Designer Let me cut to the chase: I...

Learn More 2 0May 7

Rails Designer v1.14: All-new Calendar Component

Back once again! After I published the JavaScript for Rails Developers book (see below), I took it a...

Learn More 1 0May 5

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 4 0May 1

Enhanced debugging for Stimulus

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

Learn More 3 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 1Apr 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 3 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 3 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