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Sweet Streams One of the gifts and challenges of working at a consultancy like Flagrant is that we sometimes find ourselves in between projects with time on our hands. This can be a good opportunity to slow down a bit and catch up on some personal projects away from the computer. For me, that...
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September 4, 2024
I have known about Ruby’s Module#prepend method since it was introduced in Ruby 2.0 over a decade ago but never quite found a need for it. Module#include is prepend’s older and more famous sibling similarly useful for decoration and composition. I suspect that other developers, like me, naturally
March 7, 2024
At some point everyone bumps into the age old problem of unintentional multiple form submissions usually caused by repeated pressing of submit buttons. Fortunately, if you are using Turbo you get the automatic disabling of buttons for free right out of the box. While Turbo is great at
January 25, 2024
Turbo has a knack for adding cool, little-but-useful features, resulting in a smoother experience for the user and developer alike. One lesser known capability within Turbo is the ability to easily customize the confirm process for a button. Although documented briefly in the Turbo Handbook, in
December 12, 2023
One cool feature that comes with Turbo are Eager Loaded Frames. By simply adding a src attributes to your turbo frame Turbo will make an asynchronous request to the given url when the turbo frame is rendered on the page. This simple feature while powerful in itself can be the jumping off point
November 15, 2022
This is the sixth and final post in a series on things we explored while “Revamping the Ruby Central Conference Websites”. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4: Planning
November 15, 2022
This is the fifth post in a series on things we explored while “Revamping the Ruby Central Conference Websites”. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4: Planning HTTP/Proxy
November 15, 2022
This is the fourth post in a series on things we explored while “Revamping the Ruby Central Conference Websites”. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4: Planning HTTP/Proxy
November 15, 2022
This is the third post in a series on things we explored while “Revamping the Ruby Central Conference Websites”. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind ⬅︎ Lesson 4: Planning
November 15, 2022
This is the second post in a series on things we explored while “Revamping the Ruby Central Conference Websites”. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS ⬅︎ Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4: Planning
November 15, 2022
This is the first post in a multi-part series on things we explored while “Revamping the Ruby Central Conference Websites”. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig ⬅︎ Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4:
September 23, 2021
Pagination With Hotwire In the pantheon of classic user stories over the years of modern web development, pagination is certainly well represented. The first release of the long lived will_paginate gem goes all the way back to 2008 and the early years of Rails. Amazingly, newer gems like
March 19, 2021
We have been building a Responsive Web Chat application. In order to provide users with a look and feel similar to a native app we decided to include page transition animations using the CSS and Javascript frameworks in our application, TailwindCSS and StimulusReflex. At the same time a visual
February 2, 2021
A Brief Study of StimulusReflex This post continues our exploration of Reactive Rails tools with StimulusReflex(SR) and its underlying libraries CableReady(CR) and Stimulus. This is the third post in the series–if you need to catch up you can: Reactive Rails In Context Reactive
October 27, 2020
ActionMailbox is a great new feature shipped with Rails 6.0 that allows you to receive emails in your website; a sort of counterpart to sending emails with ActionMailer. ActionMailbox handles the complexities of catching and storing emails and exposes a simple configuration pattern and routing
