All Articles (19)

In this article, I break down the difference between system specs and feature specs in RSpec and Rails, and walk you through refactoring your feature specs to system specs.

This article explores a dynamic nav component I built using the current_page? helper method, plus Rails' conditional class helpers. The result? A simple, dynamic navbar component, with different styling based on current page. Plus I threw in the ViewComponent version too 😉

This is a super short article on how to add a favicon to your Ruby on Rails app. We combine the favicon_link_tag helper with asset_path, which makes it quick and easy.

In this article, I share a handy Stimulus controller for adding tabs to your Rails apps. I also show you a different variation of the controller, and how to add it to your views. Plus, I've included a handy tip to avoid the annoying "flashing in" effect that can happen if you're not careful.

This article covers everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about previewing emails and ActionMailer templates in Ruby on Rails. I cover native ActionMailer previews, the letter_opener gem, MailCatcher and MailHog. I've tested them all, and I cover how to use them, and their pros and cons.

If you're sick of typing rails console all day, or just want to learn about a cool Rails command, I've got something that you're going to like — the rails runner command.

This method to split your database seeds by Rails environment is clean and simple, and is perfect to split up your `seeds.rb` file. It's a brilliant method! I just wish I'd thought of it first 😅

Overmind is a Procfile manager on steroids — like Foreman and bin/dev, but... a lot better. It's deeply configurable, and integrates with tmux so you can stop, restart and attach to running processes.

Hotwire and Turbo Frames make it easy to add lazy-loading into our Rails apps — I'm talking only 12 lines of code! Plus, we can use TailwindCSS to create a skeleton loader for our Turbo Frames.

We use the faker gem to seed our database with 10,000 fake posts. Then, we're going to speed up seeding by 9.4x, using either upsert_all or the activerecord-import gem.

A reference guide for generating migrations in your Ruby on Rails app — I cover the basics like adding columns and tables, adjusting column types (and loads more), plus some tips and tricks...

Here are the basics of installing Redis and Sidekiq, and then adding Redis and Sidekiq to your Ruby on Rails app. This is everything you need to get set up — no fluff, just a couple of commands. Let's go!

Rails 7 introduced a lot of new things, but honestly, the `bin/dev` script is the thing I notice the most. I want to try to give your some insight into how `bin/dev` and `Procfile.dev` work together...

This is the ultimate Dokku + Ruby on Rails guide — I cover running Dokku on x86 and ARM, deploying Sidekiq and Redis, dockerizing our Ruby on Rails app, and more...

So, you're new to Stimulus and want to try it out in your Ruby on Rails app. Or perhaps you just need a simple toggle pattern to follow. Either way, you're in the right place...

Most Rails apps probably don't need a React or Vue frontend. With a few lines of Rails and Hotwire magic, we can build a live frontend. That's what we're going to be doing today...

A deep dive into the basics of Rails credentials, explore their benefits and drawbacks, and showing you how easy it is to integrate this powerful tool into your Rails app development process...

How I switched from using direct SendGrid API calls to implementing ActionMailer for cleaner, more manageable code. Our final implementation will take us from 36 lines of code, down to 1 ...

A full guide for deploying a Ruby on Rails app to Render with a database, Redis, Sidekiq, and Cron jobs. This guide steps you through deploying your Rails app to Render, including setting up Redis, Sidekiq and Cron jobs to give you a great production-ready starter.