I've come to a point in my career where my knowledge of web development has hit a plateau. I, like many front end developers, are probably used to working with WordPress or something similar buildi...

Building a blog with comments using Ruby on Rails is a foundational exercise I went through to learn more about the framework. Working together, both Ruby and Rails lend us a hand to generate a fai...

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...

Continuing my long stent of Ruby on Rails builds is yet another build that focuses more on relationships in a real-world discussion forum application.

The application on the outside looks a litt...

Deploying a Rails app can be a daunting experience. There are a vast number of hosts out there but many fail to compare to Heroku. In this single part screencast, I guide you through the process of...

Welcome to what I'll be calling my tenth installment to my Let's Build: With Ruby on Rails series. In this build, I'll cover how to build a filterable job board with payments using Stripe as a paym...

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...

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...

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...

This tutorial is about using Active Storage from Ruby on Rails 6.0 to create a drag and drop upload experience from scratch using Stimulus.js and Dropzone.js.

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Continuing on from Part 1 is the frontend portion of the tutorial. I'll leverage React, Apollo and Tailwind CSS to build out the frontend of our Ruby on Rails and GraphQL API application.

The to...

Welcome to another installment of my Let's Build: With Ruby on Rails series. This series focuses on building a marketplace application using Stripe Connect. Users can sign up, purchase, and sell th...

Welcome to another installment in my Let's build with Ruby on Rails: Extending Devise series. This tutorial teaches you how to sign in with Twitter using Devise, Omniauth, and Ruby on Rails.

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In this guide, you'll learn how to install Tailwind CSS using Ruby on Rails

It occurred to me recently that I never actually recorded a screencast about installing Tailwind CSS within the Ruby o...

Everywhere I've looked for some guidance on how to best tailor email subscriptions in a Ruby on Rails app has turned up fairly empty. After some trial and error I a found method that fits my needs ...

Callbacks are methods that get called at certain moments of an object's life cycle. We can use callbacks as a means to manipulate objects further with built-in functionality that Ruby on Rails ship...