Boring Rails

Hotwire components that refresh themselves

Using ViewComponents that know how to refresh themselves via turbo_streams is a powerful pattern to build complex flows with Hotwire

Jul 7

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July 2024

Event sourcing for smooth brains: building a basic event-driven system in Rails

Event sourcing is a jargon filled mess, but we can build a lean version with just ActiveRecord, callbacks, and a bit of boring Rails code

Jul 22, 2024

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June 2023

January 2023

November 2022

Do we need RSpec?

Matt and Justin talk about RSpec and testing DSLs and try to answer the question "do we need them?"

Nov 21, 2022

Do we need small user stories?

Matt and David Copeland talk about small user stories and try to answer the question "do we need them?"

Nov 14, 2022

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Do we need staging servers?

Matt and Justin talk about staging servers and try to answer the question "do we need them?"

Nov 7, 2022

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Do we need detailed commit messages?

Hey!

Nov 1, 2022

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August 2022

Thinking in Hotwire: Progressive Enhancement

Your mental model for Hotwire should be progressive enhancement: use the least amount of the tooling as possible to achieve your desired outcome

Aug 16, 2022

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July 2022

Hotwire Summer: Galaxy brain CSS tricks for Hotwire

Techniques that will make you say "wait..you did that with only CSS?!"

Jul 26, 2022

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Hotwire Summer: Adding keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys to StimulusJS

A review of the ecosystem for adding hotkeys to your Stimulus controllers: stimulus-hotkeys, stimulus-use/useHotkeys, HotKey.js, and @github/hotkey

Jul 12, 2022

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June 2022

Hotwire Summer: The most underrated Rails helper is dom_id

One of the oldest helpers in Rails is also the most underrated. `dom_id` shines for building apps with Hotwire, allowing you to target parts of the page…

Jun 29, 2022

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