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...

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...

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...

Tailwind CSS has become my favorite CSS framework to reach for lately. The focus of the framework is utility-first which means adding classes to HTML elements to style it...

The asset pipeline has been a game-changer for a number of years in the Ruby on Rails community. This article & video is an overview of what the asset pipeline is, how it's used, and the benefits o...

Active Record migrations (within Ruby on Rails) are a convenient way to alter your database schema of a period of time. This overview/guide is a look at just what you can achieve with migrations an...

Welcome to another Let's Build: with JavaScript tutorial. In this installment, we'll take a look at building a theme switcher for different parts of a web page using CSS variables and vanilla JavaS...

Data is a great thing but the wrong data can be very very bad. Luckily, if you're a Ruby on Rails programmer you have a nice API of ActiveRecord validation helpers at your disposal.

This guide i...

Did you know Ruby on Rails can be used as a strict API based backend application? What's the benefit to this? Think of it as a single source of truth for multiple future applications to absorb an...

Welcome to my next installment to the ongoing series called "Let's Build: With Ruby on Rails". This 10-part series will cover building a project management type of...

Ruby on Rails gives us so much out of the box but there are times errors occur or we need to re-invent the wheel for a specific feature of some type. This video/article is my own take on debugging ...

Continuing the Let's Build: With JavaScript series, I tackle a more known pattern of a "show more show less" toggle with JavaScript. To take things further I introduce a different approach that is ...