Needed a helper to find the next occurrence of a date (birthdays, holidays, etc.), so I built it. Now it’s an open @rubyonrails.org.web.brid.gy PR: Date.upcoming_date(month, day) 🎉 Proud to give back to the open-source community that gives us so much ❤️ Hope it gets merged 🤞 t.co/XD0hlDYenB

Just launched a little side tool 🚀 Test XPath expressions against HTML snippets right in the browser. Built with Rails + Nokogiri, CodeMirror, and Catppuccin ✨ Perfect for experimenting with XPath expressions 🧪 👉 www.dotruby.com/tools/xpath-...

Inspired by @donnfelker.bsky.social’s Stimulus controllers for Lexxy, I built one that adds file type and size validation directly in the editor. Big thanks to @jorgemanru and the @basecamp team 🙌 Full write-up 👉 www.dotruby.com/articles/add...

You don't actually need Ruby installed to work with Rails locally 🤯 I wrote about this odd idea: “Rails without Ruby” 👉 dotruby.com/articles/rai...

Need an extra email address but don't want to create a new account? Most providers support plus addressing → just add +something before the @. All emails still arrive in your inbox, and you can filter them easily. Example: [email protected] 📬

Redesigning a Rails app? 🚀 We discovered an underrated feature: :variants. With just one magic suffix you can run old & new layouts in parallel — no JS, no cookies, just Rails ✨ Full write-up 👉 dotruby.com/articles/eas...

Discovered a neat trick in the turbo_power gem by @marcoroth.dev 💡 turbo_stream.toggle_css_class supports force:, just like the DOM API. No need for manual logic — may the force: be with you 🛸✨

HexaPDF gem from @gettalong.bsky.social made it super easy to add PDF form filling to our rails app 🙌 The hardest part? Finding the PDF form field names 🤯 We wanted to give back, so we built a tool to list them all: dotruby.com/tools/hexapd... Drag a PDF → see all field names → done ✅

🚨 Rails tip: Appending query params with concat or + "?..." can break your URLs — especially if the URL already includes parameters. Instead of risking invalid or double ?s, use a proper helper that merges params safely. 👇

💡 I needed to check if a string is a valid app path in my Rails app — surprisingly, couldn’t find a built-in way. So I wrote a small helper method. Sharing in case it helps someone — or if there’s a better way? 🤔👇

I remembered today and thought I'd share: You can use .many? instead of count > 1 — more readable and sometimes faster! 💡 On relations: uses LIMIT 2 ⚠️ On associations: loads all records

Anchor links not scrolling correctly in your Rails app? Turbo Drive intercepts clicks and replaces page content via fetch (not a full page reload) — and that breaks native #anchor scrolling. Fix it with data-turbo="false" Tamed the Turbo — anchor away! ⚓

Just discovered you can add an if after a content_tag block in Rails views — way cleaner than wrapping the whole thing! Always finding little gems in ERB 💎😍

Pluralizing model names in Rails with proper i18n — there's a helper for that. I wrote a small helper that uses model_name.human(count: ...) to do it the right way — fully i18n-ready. Simple, readable, and it works with any model as long as it's been translated 😉

💡 Clean Rails views with conditional wrapping? Use conditional_tag to wrap content in a tag only if a condition is true. No more messy if blocks in ERB. Just clean, readable templates. Discovered this gem thanks to @scarfacedeb 🙌

Nobody likes to pack — not IRL, not on GitHub. 🧳 So I built github-repo-manager: For when you're leaving a GitHub org and want to take all your repos without the manual drag-n-drop drama. One script. No cardboard boxes. 🐙💼 github.com/elalemanyo/g...

💡 Want your Rails app to teach you something new every time it boots? Check out get-smart by igorkasyanchuk — it shows handy Ruby & Rails tips during startup. A clever gem with a thoughtful touch 💎✨ github.com/igorkasyanch...

I released version 0.4.0 of active_hashcash. Thanks to @ivanverges.bsky.social and @elalemanyo.bsky.social for their contributions. ActiveHashcash protects Rails applications against bots and brute force attacks without annoying humans. github.com/BaseSecrete/...

💡 Turbo Tip: Preserve search state and update the browser's URL when paginating within a <turbo-frame> by adding data-turbo-action="advance". This promotes frame navigation to a full page visit, enhancing user experience. 📖 Learn more: turbo.hotwired.dev/handbook/fra...

make any ssh server feel like home 🏡 add this to your VS Code settings: "remote.SSH.defaultExtensions" now it auto-installs your favorite extensions when you connect no more bare-bones VS Code sessions 🫠

Need a quick user icon but don't use an icon set? Just write Do and rotate it 90° Boom 💥 You've got a minimalist one Genius idea from @lopezcodes.bsky.social 👏

Just discovered CodeSwing — 🔥 VS Code extension for building live HTML/CSS/JS demos right inside the editor. Made by github.com/lostintangent, who's behind lots of awesome dev tools. Definitely worth a follow! github.com/lostintangen...

Here are just some highlights from All About Code and Ruby section from: @andycroll.bsky.social @coolprobn.bsky.social @hansschnedlitz.com @RubyCademy @elalemanyo.bsky.social @David Heinemeier Hansson But there are much more code samples to be inspired and write beautiful #Ruby

Ever forget how @github.com-flavored markdown does callouts? Same 😅 Now I just type :note, :tip, :warning, etc. and espanso.org fills it in for me ✨ Thanks terzi_federico for making this possible 🙌

Found a good way to check if a file was newly attached in Rails For has_one_attached or has_many_attached Hope this helps someone save time! 👇

I was getting tired of my logs being flooded with Sass deprecation warnings when compiling bootstrap in my rails app 😩 Turns out, you can silence them by just adding this: --quiet-deps --silence-deprecation=import,global-builtin No more noise! 🚀 sass-lang.com/documentatio...

🚀 Keeping your JavaScript dependencies up to date is easier than ever! Just add a simple script to your package.json and update everything with one command. Check out npm-check-updates → github.com/raineorshine...

Just discovered a neat @vscode.dev setting: "debug.allowBreakpointsEverywhere": true Turns out, you can set breakpoints literally anywhere — *.html.erb, *.turbo_stream.erb, you name it. No more “breakpoints can't be set here” nonsense. Feels like cheating, but it works. 😎

✨ Conditional form fields with pure HTML & Tailwind! Want to show/hide fields based on selected option? No JS! Just use group-has-* from Tailwind. #1: Show input when selected. #2: Show a different <select> for each option. 🔥 Works great for forms with dynamic inputs!

Want to add Picture-in-Picture (PiP) to your Rails app using Hotwire? 🎥🚀 Check out this great guide by @nicogaldamez.bsky.social on making it work seamlessly with Turbo! unagisoftware.com/articles/pic...

🚀 Rails' I18n isn't just for translations — @danschopp.bsky.social wrote a really interesting article on how to use it for more. A great read if you're curious about new possibilities in Rails! www.dotruby.com/articles/use...

Want to hide scrollbars without breaking scrolling? 🎨✨ I put together a clean CSS approach + the Tailwind way, and even included a demo so you can test it yourself! 🚀 www.dotruby.com/articles/hid...

🚀 Bringing AI into Rails? timrock shares a great post on integrating Langchain.rb with Rails, walking through setting up OpenAI with llm_chain, vector stores, and ActiveRecord search. Thanks for the insightful write-up! world.hey.com/timrock/lang...

🔥 Pro tip: Keep your VS Code devcontainer extensions personal! Add 'dev.containers.defaultExtensions' to your user settings.json and stop forcing your favorite extensions on your teammates. Your container, your rules!

🔥 Enable Tailwind IntelliSense in .css files! By default, VS Code doesn't treat .css files as Tailwind, so you miss out on IntelliSense. Fix it by adding this to your settings! 👇

🚀 @tailwindcss.com 4.0 dropped, and it's making things even cleaner! Check out how *:not-only simplifies selectors compared to v3. 🎨 play.tailwindcss.com/ZGTuORYG6W

🚀 Tired of missing esbuild errors in your Rails app? They show up in the terminal, but your app keeps serving old files. 🤦‍♂️ I fixed this by rendering esbuild errors directly in the browser! 🔥 Check out the article: dotruby.com/articles/enhancing-esbuild-error-handling-in-a-rails-app

🚀 Speed up your Rails dev setup! Tired of missing gems or npm packages when starting your Rails app? Add this to bin/dev script to install them before: 💎 bundle check || bundle install --quiet 📦 yarn install --frozen-lockfile --silent 🔗 Saves time, avoids surprises!

🚀 From Sticky to Pinned: Learn how to detect when a sticky element gets “stuck”! This guide covers a Stimulus controller and the new CSS scroll-state() in Chrome. 🎯 Stick your UIs perfectly! 👉 www.dotruby.com/articles/fro...

🚀 Exciting update: we've already upgraded our main rails app dotruby.com to Tailwind CSS 4! The process was smooth, and the new features are absolutely 🔥. Huge thanks to the @tailwindcss.com team and all contributors for the amazing work! 🙌 Have you updated yet?

🎉 Just discovered an awesome VSCode plugin for Rails devs: Rails Partial! It lets you quickly jump between views and their partials—no more hunting through files. It’s a small thing, but wow, it makes life easier! 🙌 If you're a Rails dev, give it a try: github.com/aki77/vscode...

Ever needed an excuse to gracefully exit a video call? Power Moves has your back: a 100-line macOS app that fakes a dying battery. 🔋⏳ Absolute genius, @aussie.bsky.social I'm both amazed and slightly scared of the power this gives me 😂 github.com/tholman/powe...

🎉 Happy 2025! Inspired by @goodenough.us and their embrace of "bad ideas" to fuel creativity 🚀 Let's celebrate, experiment boldly, and turn wild ideas into magic: goodenough.us/blog/2023-08...

Big shoutout to guillaumebriday for the new Stimulus Confirmation component! 🚀 Needed this for a project 🙏— users confirm actions by entering a phrase or checking a box. If you're using Stimulus, check it out: 👉 www.stimulus-components.com/docs/stimulu...

If you've ever been annoyed by Rails adding .field_with_errors around your form fields, you're not alone 😤 I wrote about a few ways to handle it better — whether you want to disable it, add error classes, or tweak the CSS. Discover 3 simple solutions 👇 www.dotruby.com/articles/how...

💡 Did you know you can add conditional indexes in Rails + PostgreSQL? 🚀 Speed up queries & save space by indexing only a subset of rows Perfect for optimizing published content queries! 🛠️✨ Thanks to @nicogaldamez.bsky.social for reminding me of this gem! 🙌

Struggling with Tailwind CSS class in Ruby? Escaping an underscore (_) got you puzzled? Here's the deal: Ruby treats \ as an escape character. That means "hello\_world" ➡️ "hello_world" (backslash gone!) To keep the backslash (\), you need two: "hello\\_world" ➡️ "hello\_world"

I'm continually impressed by the Stimulus DevTools Chrome extension by @robinsimonklein.dev 🙏. It seamlessly integrates into Chrome DevTools, providing an intuitive interface to inspect controllers, values, targets... A must-have for any #StimulusJS dev! github.com/robinsimonkl...

Smooth scroll-to without js — anchor + CSS 1️⃣ scroll-behavior: smooth to your <html> for smooth scrolling 2️⃣ use the :target pseudo-class with scroll-margin to adjust where the scroll stops ⚠️ Rails + Turbo: add target="_top" or data-turbo="false" on the link to make it work

Commenting in ERB files can be so tedious! The ERB Commenter plugin for @code makes it easy — just hit Ctrl + / to toggle comments instantly. Perfect for @rails devs looking to speed things up! 👉 marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...