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CSS and JS in Rails Engines

#442 Feb 11, 2024 pro

Setting up a Rails Engine with the TailwindCSS and Hotwire via Importmaps can be rather difficult. There's a lot of undocumented steps to take and it can be overwhelming to approach these problems. In this episode, we look at a step by step approach to both adding TailwindCSS and Turbo & Stimulus into a Rails Engine.

rails engine hotwire stimulusjs turbo tailwind

Custom Dashboard - Part 2

#433 Dec 17, 2023 pro

In this episode, we continue on from the previous episode where we finish up the dashboard and configure the views with Turbo Frame Tags.

rails hotwire stimulusjs turbo

Custom Dashboard - Part 1

#432 Dec 10, 2023 pro

In this episode, we'll look at creating the initial management for a customizable dashboard. Users can add and arrange widgets to their dashboard.

rails hotwire stimulusjs

Hotkeys

#431 Dec 3, 2023 free

Keyboard shortcuts, or Hotkeys, can provide a great experience to users of an application. In this episode, we will use a stimulus wrapper around this library to use within our Ruby on Rails application.

rails stimulusjs javascript

Form Input UX

#428 Nov 12, 2023 pro

In this episode, we'll focus on the user experience (UX) of form inputs by adding formatting of the text as the user inputs the data.

rails form ux stimulusjs

Unsaved Changes

#423 Oct 8, 2023 pro

In this episode, we'll look at creating a stimulus controller that will alert the user if there are unsaved changes on a form before they navigate away from the page or reload the site.

rails stimulusjs form

Embedding Stripe Checkout

#422 Oct 1, 2023 free

Stripe Checkout is one of my favorite ways to handle payments in Ruby on Rails applications. Stripe Checkouts will soon have an option to embed the Checkout into your web application. In this episode, we'll look at implementing this feature with a StimulusJS controller.

rails stripe stimulusjs hotwire

System Tests

#417 Sep 3, 2023 free

In this episode, we look at adding system tests in our application to test our Stimulus Controllers. We'll also look at how to DRY up some of the tests and how to run them in a headless environment.

rails tests stimulusjs

Forecasting Data

#416 Aug 27, 2023 pro

In this episode, we will look at a date range of data and build predictions of what future values will be. However, we won't be reaching for any 3rd party APIs, but instead use statistical models to learn from our data to predict the future dates. We'll also display out our data on a table and plot it to a graph.

rails chart stimulusjs javascript

PDF Reader

#413 Aug 6, 2023 free

When previewing PDF files that were uploaded through Active Storage, we can only get a simple image of the first page. In this episode, we'll look at taking the uploaded PDFs and interacting with them.

rails uploads hotwire stimulusjs

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