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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...

Welcome to a brand new series of articles and videos revolving around Ruby on Rails.

This new series is dedicated to those interested in learning [Ruby on Rails](htt...

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...

Welcome to our next Let's Build! This build introduces a well known social media giant Twitter into the mix as inspiration for the project. We will be creating a knock-o...

Welcome to a five-part mini-series where I teach you how to build a Dribbble clone in Ruby on Rails. This series is our most thorough build yet!

[Dribbble](https://dr...

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...

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 guid...

Welcome to the next installment of my Let's Build series featuring Ruby on Rails. In this span of six videos, I'll walk you through the concept of building an eCommerce ...

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 pay...

Welcome to my eleventh Let's Build series featuring Ruby on Rails. This installment, once again, focuses on accepting payments using Ruby on Rails as a web applicati...

I'm beyond excited to announce my new project Affinicasts (RIP!)!

In the last 9 months, I've been a little obsessed with creating my newest side project called Affini...

Welcome to my latest Let's Build: With Ruby on Rails series. This build will dive a little deeper into relationships within a Ruby on Rails application and teach you t...

Welcome to my 13th Let's Build: With Ruby on Rails. This build will feature a multitenancy workout app that uses a popular gem called Apartment, nested attributes, and V...

As my experience with Ruby on Rails continues to grow I explore more and more by hitting the ground running with a base application template for new projects. In this gu...

Ruby on Rails is such a vast framework. The Ruby on Rails CLI makes working with the framework that much easier. This video/article is the result of my own trials and tr...

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 ...

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 _futur...

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 yo...

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 ca...

I'm beyond excited to share the news that I am making a Ruby on Rails course called Hello Rails!

The course has a [dedicated landing page](h...

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 old...

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 fr...

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 firs...

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 you...

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](http://hellorails...

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...

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...

Continuing my Let's Build with Ruby on Rails - Extending Devise series I take a look at adding confirmation emails to a given Ruby on Rails application.

[Download th...

Continuing my Let's Build with Ruby on Rails - Extending Devise series I take a look at Devise custom routing options within a Ruby on Rails application harnessing the D...

The Spree commerce framework is an open-source fully-featured e-commerce solution that integrates directly with the Ruby on Rails framework...

Welcome to another installment of my Let's Build with Ruby on Rails - Extending Devise series within a series. This post will teach you how to allow a user to login with...

The Devise gem ships with a default configuration that allows you to sign in on a specific route. This post address the idea o...

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, Omniaut...

GraphQL is a query language for APIs. The query language itself is universal and not tied to any frontend or backend technology. This characteris...

Hotwire is a library that brings real-time functionality to your Rails applications. By integrating Hotwire-enabled comments, you can create a more interactive and immer...

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 GraphQ...

The High Voltage gem is one of my favorite no-nonsense Ruby gems that gets you moving quickly when the need for static page...

It has been a bit since I last vlogged. As 2019 came to a close I saw it as a great time to take a look back at 2019 in vlog format.

In this video, I take a quick br...

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 si...

I was recently asked to give an overview of how to add markdown support to a Ruby on Rails application. This guide will leverage a gem called [Redcarpet](https://github....

Using Turbo from the Hotwire framework, we can create a nifty feature I'm dubbing "loading buttons." These buttons enhance the user experience by providing real-time fee...

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 foun...

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 functiona...

Data modeling and gem overview

Welcome back to the second part of my series I'm calling "Let's build for Ruby and Rails developers".

This series is a complete ...

Ruby on Rails ships with default error pages for more popular requests you might encounter including 404, 500, and 422. Each request has an associated static `HTML...

Ruby on Rails and its routing capabilities make creating new resources and URL structures a breeze. This guide is a walk-through of some use cases for routing with the f...

I have fat fingers when it comes to programming some days. I’ll often make a typo when generating a new model or a controller and fudge up a process that creates a bunch...

Migrating database changes is relatively straightforward using Ruby on Rails. You may have gotten ahead in the local development environment and need to modify something...

A Comprehensive Guide to Essential String Helper Methods

When optimizing your Ruby on Rails development process, leveraging string helper methods can significantly ...

Love them or hate them, I find callbacks are like strapping a supercharger to Ruby on Rails apps. With sprinklings of these throughout your app, you can automate quite a...

Rails provides convenient built-in Time and Date formats that allow developers to work efficiently. While these default formats serve most applications well, there are i...

Inspired by Jorge Manrubia’s talk from Railsworld I wanted to try out morphing which is coming to [Turbo 8](https://g...

Modern versions of Ruby on Rails ship with a very useful application credentials layer that allows you to store private keys and other information fully encrypted.

Un...

Live reload is an incredible tool for developers looking to boost their productivity. In this tutorial, I will walk you through implementing live reload in your Ruby on ...

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to add Geolocation support to a search form using Ruby on Rails and Stimulus.js

By integrating geolocation capabilities, users can...

In this blog post, I will walk you through the process of creating an infinite scroll feature using Rails and Turbo. I wanted to see if using only Turbo was an option fo...

This step-by-step tutorial will teach you how to create and deploy a new Rails app on a remote server using Dokku.

Whether you're a developer looking to test your a...

The Turbo Rails progress bar is a subtle yet powerful feature that enhances user experience by providing visual feedback during page loads.

By default, it appears as...