Articles about Rails, the framework
vite_rails is a fantastic gem that completely drop the need for jsbundling, Webpacker, importmaps and/or Sprockets. 0. Motivation We are building BootrAils on top of the last Rails version. When Rails 7 came out, it was (kind of) a relief to see a replacement for Webpacker. Whereas the new assets pipeline looks better, it seemed that room …
Rodauth is a wonderful Ruby gem that helps to handle authentication problems. Let’s see how to integrate it into a Rails application. 0. Motivation At BootrAils, until recently, we were uncomfortable about what could be a decent default authentication in any new Rails app – until Rodauth appeared under the radar. There are no “Active Auth” …
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This article explains why, and how to quickly create as much Rails applications as you need, using any desired version of Rails. 1. Motivation At BootrAils, we are using this script every (working !) day. It allows you to : … without any side effect. Side note for beginners : It’s also an excellent way to improve …
Rails 7 has a very opinionated way to handle the front-end assets. Let’s see how it works for Bootstrap 5. 0. A big warning At BootrAils, we are very excited that Rails 7 is out since mid-december, 2021. The frontend assets management is once again completely different. Rails 6 almost dropped Sprockets in favor of Webpack …
How to add a database column with Ruby-on-Rails ? Here is the short, and the long answer. Introduction Let’s say you have a table named “books”, and an associated model named “Book”. You want to add the column “author”. Tools used in this tutorial : Rails 6.1.3, Ruby 3 Note that this article should work …
How to add a database column with Ruby-on-Rails ? Here is the short, and the long answer. Introduction Let’s say you have a table named “books”, and an associated model named “Book”. You want to add the column “author”. Tools used in this tutorial : Rails 6.1.3, Ruby 3 Note that this article should work …
Form is an old standard from the web, and handling form with Rails is almost as old as Rails itself. But submission tend to be a lot more complex nowadays making the UX and data-flow not so easy to understand, so sometimes it’s good to go back to basics Requirements Tools used : Rails 6.1.3, …
Webpacker is a wrapper around Webpack, but is not fully used in a default new Rails application. Let’s see how to set up Rails with Webpacker, in order to use any kind of frontend assets. Create a new Rails application without Webpacker Minimal application The minimal flag means “please install a default Rails app with …
I’m not part of the Rails team, I’m just a daily Rails developer. So this list comes only from my imagination. Let’s dream. Hot reloading just works™ Hot reloading means “auto-refreshing the browser when the developer modifies a file”. It’s 2021, now all web frameworks (at least in the JavaScript space) have hot-reloading that just …
Tailwind and Bootstrap are the most used CSS framework by now. Let’s see how they compare – with the bias of a Ruby-on-Rails developer point of view. Is it related to Rails anyway ? Tailwind and Bootstrap are both CSS frameworks, so one could argue that they have nothing to do with Rails itself. Which …
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