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Boring Rails Meetup - Chicago - July 13
Join us for a casual hang-out with other Ruby on Rails developers in Chicago
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?"
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?"
Do we need staging servers?
Matt and Justin talk about staging servers and try to answer the question "do we need them?"
Do we need detailed commit messages?
Hey! I’m trying something new: I’ve recorded a limited podcast series where I talk with people about software practices and ask: “Do we need it?” While…
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
July 2022
Hotwire Summer: Galaxy brain CSS tricks for Hotwire
Techniques that will make you say "wait..you did that with only CSS?!"
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
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…
Hotwire Summer: Self-destructing StimulusJS controllers
Add sprinkles of Javascript behavior with Stimulus controllers that run a few lines of code and then remove themselves from the page. Like inlined…
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Hotwire Summer: Tailwind-style CSS transitions in Stimulus
Build polished UI components with StimulusJS and Enter/Leave CSS Transitions using patterns from Vue, Alpine, and Tailwind.
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