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Beautiful Rails confirmation dialogs (with zero JavaScript)
Last week on the timeline, I saw two things come across my feed:
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A pull request in Fizzy to upgrade the out-of-the-box Rails
data-turbo-confirmwith a custom modal -
Tweets from my friend Stephen Margheim about HTML native ways of...
Hotwire components that refresh themselves
Earlier this year I made a tweet about a pattern for interactive Hotwire features that people seemed to like:
With the help of my friend Jesper, we turned this into a full article as there were some questions about some of the details in t...
Event sourcing for smooth brains: building a basic event-driven system in Rails
Event sourcing is a jargon filled mess that is unapproachable to many developers, often using five dollar words like "aggregate root" and "projections" to describe basic concepts.
But lately I have been building with a very basic, dumb...
Boring Rails Meetup - Chicago - July 13
Come hang out with me in Chicago!
Join us for a casual hang-out with other Ruby on Rails developers in Chicago. Sponsored by Arrows
Event Details
When:
Thursday, July 13, 2023 @ 7pm
Where:
Green Eye Lounge
2403 W Homer S...
Writing better Action Mailers: revisiting a core Rails concept
Mailers are a feature used in literally every Rails application. But they are often an after thought where we throw out the rules of well-written applications.
Writing mailers is a "set it and forget it" part of your codebase. But recently...
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