I've got a few more in the queue from the SF Ruby Conf. I'm definitely going to be shooting more of these in different locations with other Rubyists and people who are building cool stuff.

Where are Ruby devs looking for Black Friday deals this season? I’ve got an $80 off BFD for the @beautifulruby.com Phlex on Rails course and want to get it in front of more Ruby developers. beautifulruby.com/phlex

Kicking off a BFD (Black Friday Deal) for @beautifulruby.com! Between now and Sunday, December 7, 2025 you can save over 20% off the course with an $80 coupon. To claim the deal, use the normal Stripe checkout flow at beautifulruby.com/phlex#invest

Today's phree @beautifulruby.com Phlex on Rails video reviews the most fundamental concept of @phlex.fun, creating HTML tags & attributes. One of the most powerful things about Phlex is how certain attributes, like class, style, and data, handle hashes & arrays, making Phlex great for components.

What are some good Ruby podcasts that would want their audience to hear me talk about Phlex, Superform, Supermail, etc?

If you're wondering how I packaged up Ruby code into binaries people can run on Linux and macOS, Tebako is it. In this RTSFC I walk through the internals of Tebako, which is a lot of scripts that compile ruby, download gems into a package, and set entry points for your code.

Today's free Phlex on Rails video is all about rendering, which is very polymorphic in Phlex. Partials, strings, values, components, component classes, and collections all Just Work™ when passed into the `render` method.

Today's free Phlex on Rails video kicks off Unit 2, starting with the basics of a Phlex component!💪 If you're a Rails developer that's never heard of Phlex, you'll want to follow along this week as I premiere Unit 2.

Today's free Phlex on Rails video is the last in the introduction unit, "Why Components?" If you've got some training budget remaining this year, here's a $50 off checkout link beautifulruby.com/courses/phle...

Today’s free @beautifulruby.com Phlex on Rails video covers how the trio of Rails, Phlex, & Hotwire makes a productive framework for quickly building and shipping web apps. 💪🚞🔌 It’s geared more for people who are less familiar with the Rails stack. beautifulruby.com/phlex/overvi...

There's 50 days until Christmas and I have 45 Phlex videos. How about a Phlex on Rails video advent calendar? I'll do my best to post some videos from the Phlex course starting with "Why Phlex?" since the intro video is free. This one compares to ViewComponent if you're curious. Follow along!

I wrote about how pre-sold $13,000 worth of Phlex on Rails video course, some surprises I had along the way, open questions I have around the entire concept, and where I'd like to take @beautifulruby.com now that the first video course has been fully launched. 🚀

Has anybody used this? I'd personally be reluctant to use it in a project, which sounds crazy given how I'm a big fan of Phlex. For me the difference is @phlex.fun is barely an abstraction and stays "close the the HTML". Opal had a lot going on, but I couldn't tell that's because of JS or Opal.

I wrote about the designing the perfect type signature syntax in Ruby.

Official launch article for the Phlex on Rails video course. Huge thanks to @joel.drapper.me for creating @phlex.fun. It was fun making the course for it. I hope this inspires more people to use Phlex so we can all benefit from building UIs with components without React JS bloat. 💪🚀

Also testing out a new video format.

I think @joel.drapper.me gets enjoyment out of the names he chooses for his gems 😂

This is about half way down the 🕳️🐇 for async Ruby. These repos are incredibly understandable if you know the HTTP specs and are prepared to clone a bunch of repos and open them in the same editor workspace. It's really good stuff.

In retrospect, it was kind of ridiculous that I shoot my first paid video course outside, but it was so much fun. 🤣 I highly recommend coding outside if you can swing it. You'll feel way better at the end of the day and the glare isn't really that bad. Go outside and touch grass! 🌱

I’ve been looking forward to showing off this source code because it’s so well written. Last week Shopify announced they deployed Falcon to production, which gave me an excuse to dive into it and RTFSC. 🤿

Finished the last videos and I have a registration system in place. The old paywall was a 🔓 in the URL, like this `https://beautifulruby.com/🔓/phlex` 🤣 Now the browser has to be activated via email, and I'm using SQLite on the server to store course & registration data.

Check it out, SF Ruby Conf got Wes Anderson to shoot their intro video. 😏

Also: leave because of the confusing SF weather, but come first.

Every time I have to do this, I think about @indirect.io's `rv` presentations at the @sfruby.bsky.social meetups.

Remember when I launched Supermail last week as an easier way to work with emails in Rails? Turns out the simplified abstraction made it easy for me to generate mailto: links. I also forgot to mention it works alongside ActionMailer for those with existing Rails apps. Video & code 👇

Could somebody explain why its a bad idea or mis-aligns incentives if a mature OSS infrastructure org uses a funding model where the top 20% of for-profit users pay a service fee that supports operations? Assume if there's "profits", prices are cut, and if there's not, they're raised.

Sharing my toolkit for how I debug my computer in the morning before I get to work on @beautifulruby.com. youtu.be/tv3BTKgz2uY

I got 🤬 at ActionMailer in Rails and cranked out a way to do email in Rails with better ergonomics calls Supermail. There's not much to it other than its a much more intuitive way of creating, managing, and sending emails in Rails. beautifulruby.com/code/superma...

I was surprised to see structure.sql instead of schema.rb in this project. Anybody know if that decisions was made because of SQLite? Or is it because it might run on different databases?

My daughter’s Friday folder in tonight’s earthquake. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Every time I deploy I think about the insane number of humans who touched my project through Ruby Gems, Linux, the physical cables called the Internet, & the grid that powers it all. I don’t know who they are, but they all do the right thing and my software boots. It’s really a miracle.

It’s fun discovering rack, then building a toy web framework on top of it.

Today has been... intense. Thank you everyone who's discussed this with me and offered kind words or support. I don't know the intent behind what happened. The people involved aren't villains, and they aren't evil.

Having met with both sides on the current RubyCentral/RubyGems situation, here's my take: - RubyCentral have managed this exceptionally poorly in many ways including removing literally the most active member of the RubyGems organisation by mistake who has declined to return

I was struggling with the docs for this gem when I was working on the Hotwire and Phlex unit of the Phlex on Rails video course. Was fun to read through the source and see how Hotwire.dev integrates with Rails.

I could have easily spent 30-40 minutes between the Phlex and Phlex on Rails gem. Will be interesting to see where this goes. 🤠

The Phlex on Rails week 11 update! I got to enjoy this view on Monday, then got to work from Tuesday on to crank out the Hotwire unit of Phlex. I'm surprised "Rails" doesn't really appear on the Hotwire site and there's no Hotwire docs in the official Rails guides. Had to dig through lots of code.

Trying out a new format where I review interesting Ruby libraries. I've been intrigued by multi-tenant multi-database solutions, particularly how migrations are run, and dove into the newly announced ActiveRecord Tenanted gem from #railsworld.

Yesterday I launched Superform 0.6, a better way to create forms in Rails. Today I'm launching the Superform unit of the Phlex on Rails course @beautifulruby.com and sharing the "Why Superform?" video for free. I pop out of the woods and explain why Superform is better than Rails form helpers. 🧙

Behold Superform 0.6! If you struggle customizing forms in Rails or forget to update strong parameters when building web apps, check out my rewrite of Rails form helpers. Built on @phlex.fun, but works great with ERB. I'm going to dive into each feature this week 🕳️🐇 For now, read the tl;dr 👇

This week I wrapped up the Superform section of the Phlex on Rails video course, released Superform 0.6.x, and was interviewed for my use of.... a mechanical keyboard 🤠⌨️

Talked about Superform, a library I've been working on built with @phlex.fun, at the @sfruby.bsky.social meetup @github.com HQ in SF. The next version will include "Field Kits" and automatic strong parameters. Also wtf, only 50% of the people in the room claim to work with forms? 🤣

I stole the Phlex::Kit idea from @joel.drapper.me, dropped it into Superform, and this is what it looks like rendered from Erb. Notice how Superform doesn't have <%%> soup? On the right is one of the best Rails form helpers, simple_form. Pretty sure this means I built the best Rails form lib. 💪😎

Me, outside, extracting an Erb snippet into a Phlex component. 💪🌿🦋 youtu.be/BrzdEuTIU5U

Did you know that all the entities in the HTML spec are listed in a few files inside the Phlex gem? These files are also what make links to the docs for each tag in Zed with Ruby LSP, and other IDEs that work with LSPs. Pop the hood and see what lies beneath! beautifulruby.com/code/phlex-e...

I find it a bit odd when people put lots of work into a gem for something that already exists & they don't include prior art or comparisons in the README. github.com/basecamp/act... was released and github.com/rpush/rpush has been around for years with 2.2k stars. Comparisons are insanely helpful!

Week 8 Phlex on Rails update on the books! 🙌 Got back from hanging with the fam for a week at Pismo beach and finished most of the "Existing Rails Apps" unit. While I'm close to half way finished with the number of videos, I feel over half way since I found a groove for video production.

Playing with the beautifulruby.com/articles page. I include a photograph I took for each article so I'm trying to prominently feature it in hopes that it stands out in a good way. Thoughts? I'm going to add an RSS feed, email sub, and the beautifulruby.com/code pages next.

I can see how professionals who use macOS are going to be much more eager to try Linux distributions when Apple inexplicably does stuff like ship an operating system where windows all have different radii. It's unbelievable to see a software company seriously push something like this in a beta. 🤷