Interactive lessons and thoughtful tips to help you fall in love with building web apps all over again 💜
Where you get to play with an interactive demo to visualize how Enumerator::Lazy helps avoid unnecessary work
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A compilation of lessons about what the SQLite database engine can and cannot do, how Ruby on Rails helps you work with SQLite, and why it may, or may not, be a good choice to back your Rails 8 app
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Joy of Rails deployments and server processes are managed by Hatchbox. Hatchbox is a Rails deployment tool that makes it easy to deploy Rails apps to your own servers on DigitalOcean, Linode, or similar.
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An embedded Web Push demo and deep dive recipe for Web Push notifications for a Ruby on Rails application in advance of Rails 8 Action Notifier.
Learn how to use "Rails config x" and add your own configuration options to your Rails app with built-in methods, ActiveSupport::OrderedOptions, and practical use cases.
Rails 8 will support Progressive Web Apps (PWA) out-of-the-box but you have all the tools you need to make your Rails app installable today.
Rails is not just for HTML over the wire. This post demonstrates how and why you might use Rails for delivering CSS on the fly too.
You can edit the color scheme of this website right in content of this blog post. Play with the controls while we highlight the benefits of Rails, Hotwire, and CSS variables.
Joy of Rails is a Rails application dedicated to teaching and showing programmers how to use Ruby on Rails and highlighting news, notes, and contributions relevant to the broader Ruby on Rails community. It is open sourced on Github.