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In late 2018 I set out to create a new course called Hello Rails. This is a reflection on creating a course in 2019 and some background as to why I am.

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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...

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...

Next up in my Let's Build with Tailwind CSS series is a Dribbble Shot component

I reached for the CDN version of Tailwind CSS for this build once again. In future par...

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...

Kicking off my new Tailwind CSS Let's Build series I decided to start with a component and what better component than a tweet on Twitter.

Follow along in the build t...

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...

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

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 i...

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...

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...

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...