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Devise is a ruby gem I use in nearly any Rails app. Authentication is a not so simple concept to master and as a result Devise has stood to be one of the most popular to help with this repetitive p...

My new course Hello Rails is officially live! In case you weren't on my mailing list I wanted to broadcast to you all that my course is out. I'm beyond excited to get it out in the wild.

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Welcome to another addition to my Let's Build: With Tailwind CSS series. This installment will focus on using PostCSS in a local development environment to create and config...

It has been a bit since I did another Let's Build: With JavaScript so I'm back with a new one focusing on using Local Storage.

As a precursor to this tutorial I highly recommend not using local ...

Hey all, enjoy this free (short) taste of a bonus module in my upcoming course Hello Rails. You can find a ton more about the course at hellorails.io.

My guestimate as ...

In late 2018 I set out to create a new course called Hello Rails. This is a reflection on creating a course in 2019 and some background as to why I am.

Backstory

I started a YouTube chan...

Ruby on Rails is such a powerful framework. It has its own CLI of which harnesses what are known as "generators". These generators can quickly scale up resources for your app with a few keystrokes....

I've been busy getting my new course hellorails.io in better shape to launch this week. While doing that it was recently announced that the first release candidate for Rail...

Next up in my Let's Build with Tailwind CSS series is a Dribbble Shot component

I reached for the CDN version of Tailwind CSS for this build once again. In future parts of the series, I will lev...

In Ruby on Rails, associating models is quite trivial but does come with some conventions you will need to be familiar with as you build progressive web apps with the framework. This post is my att...

Kicking off my new Tailwind CSS Let's Build series I decided to start with a component and what better component than a tweet on Twitter.

Follow along in the build to see how I'll use a combina...

Webpack, although a little hard to configure, remains the leading edge build tool for modern web development. This post/video guides you through adding Webpack to an older Ruby on Rails 5.2 project...