#ruby#rack
Rack for Ruby: Socket Hijacking
In the first part of this series, we set up a basic Rack app, learned how to process a request and...
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#ruby
The Basics of Rack for Ruby
Rack is the foundation for every popular Ruby web framework in existence. It standardizes an...
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#ruby#rails
Turbo Streaming Modals in Ruby on Rails
In part one of this series, we used Hotwire's Stimulus and Turbo Frames to present modals in...
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#ruby#rails
Hotwire Modals in Ruby on Rails with Stimulus and Turbo Frames
Modals are widely used on the web, but they are rarely built with accessibility in mind. When a modal...
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#git#github
How I manage my git history
I'm generally a rather pedantic person and this is supercharged when it comes to managing the git...
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#turbo#ios#android#rails
Directing Turbo Native apps from the server
This post was extracted and adapted from The Rails and Hotwire Codex. It also assumes some...
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#rails#hotwire#websockets#turbo
Turbo Streams meets Action Cable
This post was extracted and adapted from The Rails and Hotwire Codex. Turbo Streams are a great...
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#ruby#rails#testing
Testing controller concerns in Rails
This post was extracted and adapted from The Rails and Hotwire Codex. Concerns are a great way to...
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#rails#ruby#capybara#testing
Rails system tests for multiple screen sizes
This post was extracted and adapted from The Rails and Hotwire Codex. Rails system tests simulate a...
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#rails#ruby#webdev
Custom error pages in Rails
This post was extracted and adapted from The Rails and Hotwire Codex. When something goes wrong in...
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#rails#ruby#webdev
Remote debugging in Rails 7
This post was extracted and adapted from The Rails and Hotwire Codex. Rails 7 includes the official...
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#rails#hotwire#turbo#http
HTTP redirects in a Turbo-Rails app
This post was extracted and adapted from The Rails and Hotwire Codex. In Rails, a conventional...
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#email#webdev#programming#tooling
Sending emails from your web app using your customers' email addresses
Almost every web app needs to send email. In some cases, it might be desireable to send emails using...
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#javascript#html#css#webdev
Add some spice to your HTML file fields with an image preview pane
The default HTML file field is rather boring. It's quite painful to style and not really flexible...
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#email#ethics#newsletter#startup
Ethically gauging user engagement on your newsletter
Spy pixels, click tracking and other invasive data hoarding methods are par for the course in most...
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#redis#render
Downloading data from Render.com's persistent Redis service
Render.com doesn't yet have a managed Redis offering, but we can still deploy a persistent Redis...
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#rails#render#devops#yaml
Deploy Rails and Sidekiq to Render.com using YAML
Render.com is a new Platform-as-a-service offering that's a great alternative to Heroku. Rather than...
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#ruby#rails#redis
Namespacing keys in Kredis
Kredis is a library that provides an abstraction of higher level data structures for Redis. It's...
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#ruby#yaml
How to generate YAML from Ruby objects without type annotations
Serialising a Ruby object to YAML is dead simple. Ruby's standard library has a yaml module built in...
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#html#css#webdev
Jazz up your hamburger menu icon
Hamburger icons are pretty ubiquitous these days but I sometimes find them to be a symptom of lazy...
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#stimulus#javascript
How to autoload Stimulus within every controller file
If you're familiar with Stimulus at all, the below bog standard controller should look very familiar....
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#ruby
Maximum flexibility in Ruby method arguments with the splat operators
Ruby has got to be one of the most malleable programming languages out there, which is why I like it...
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#html#webdev#css
Details & Summary tags: HTML's best kept secret
<details> and <summary> tags are among of the most useful tags that HTML gives us. I'm...
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#ruby#rails
Converting HTML to PDF using Rails
Exporting to PDF from HTML can be a bit of a can of worms, especially with CSS not quite working the...
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#ruby#rails
Applying monkey patches in Rails
Monkey patching is one of Ruby's most powerful features. It allows programmers to add methods to core...
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#ruby
Ruby's quirky load order for mixins
Ruby modules are a great way to define mixins. This construct offers a way to share logic using compo...
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#rails#ruby#html
How to submit an array using a Rails form
This article was originally posted on my blog. Sometimes an array of data needs to be submitted in a...
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#rails#ruby#security#webdev
Demystifying cookie security in Rails 6
This blog post was originally published on my blog. I've also given a talk based on this post. Check...
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#ruby#rails#security#webdev
Avoiding session replay attacks in Rails
This post was originally published on my blog. There are a lot of good reasons to roll your own...
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#javascript#css#html#webdev
Toast notifications using a JavaScript custom element
This post was originally published on my blog. Toast notifications are a great way to give the user...
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