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    • Sending Web Push Notifications from Rails
      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.
    • Introducing Joy of Rails
      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.
    • Custom Color Schemes with Ruby on Rails
      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.
    • Add your Rails app to the Home Screen - the Ultimate Guide
      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.
    • How to Render CSS Dynamically in Rails
      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.
    • Mastering Custom Configuration in Rails
      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.
    • Joy of Rails 💜 Hatchbox
      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.
    • What you need to know about SQLite
      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
    • A simple trick to understand Ruby’s lazy enumerator
      Where you get to play with an interactive demo to visualize how Enumerator::Lazy helps avoid unnecessary work
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