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If you've worked with Rails forms, you've likely encountered the infamous .field_with_errors wrapper. While it's designed to help highlight invalid fields, it can wreak havoc on your HTML structure and CSS styles. Fear not — there's an easy way to disable it!

Don't let error pages break your brand's flow. Learn how to create custom error pages in Rails that match your design, keeping the user experience smooth—even when things go wrong.

Simplify your Git workflow with an interactive branch switcher. Learn to use fzf, the fuzzy finder, alongside Git commands to effortlessly navigate and switch between branches, enhancing your development efficiency.

Learn how to easily cleanup your Rails log and tmp files.

We released a new product: RailsbootUI - it's our take on providing a simple yet professional view component collection for Rails with Bootstrap as the CSS framework under the hood.

Learn how to seamlessly integrate private gems from GitHub into your Ruby projects. This guide covers setting up your Gemfile, configuring local credentials, and using GitHub Actions for authentication. Perfect for developers looking to enhance their workflow with private repositories.

Discover how to use CSS Grid to stack items efficiently without relying on absolute positioning. This guide explains how to position elements within the same column and row, using both CSS and TailwindCSS, to create flexible and responsive layouts.

Optimize your zsh setup by profiling with zprof. This guide shows you how to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in your .zshrc file, ensuring faster startup times and a smoother shell experience.

Keep your storage clean by purging unattached ActiveStorage::Blobs. This guide walks you through setting up a rake task to automatically remove blobs that are no longer linked to records, saving space and reducing costs.

Unlock the full potential of Visual Studio Code with regular expressions in Find and Replace. This guide shows you how to use regex for precise text modifications, making complex tasks simple and efficient. Learn about capturing groups, replacement patterns, and practical examples like date format transformation.

Discover how to leverage ActionController::Rendering for rendering specific component variants outside the current view context with ease.

Bridge the gap between design and logic by accessing TailwindCSS configurations directly from JavaScript. This guide explains how to use the resolveConfig helper to dynamically apply themes, spacing, and breakpoints, ensuring a cohesive and efficient user experience across your web projects.

Simplify your monolithic Rails application by splitting your routes into logical namespaces using Rails' internal draw method. Instead of a cluttered routes.rb file, organize your routes into clear, manageable units like admin, api, etc. for improved clarity and maintainability.

Zeitwerk is Rails powerful code loader, handling all autoloading of ruby files with ease. While it requires specific filenames for classes, potential issues can be preemptively caught using the easy-to-use zeitwerk:check rake task, ensuring your Rails application boots properly in production.

Learn how to leverage the universal tally method for easy counting.

RaspberryPi ARMed with Docker and Docker-Compose. Dive into containerization on your Raspberry Pi with this straightforward guide to installing Docker and Docker Compose.

Whether you're setting up your first Pi or looking to refine your existing setup, our upcoming post will provide all the tips and tricks you need. From initial software installation to hardware configuration, we'll walk you through every essential step to get your Raspberry Pi up and running smoothly.

Almost every non-trivial Rails application needs to handle email. While in development mode, the setup for actually viewing the raw email in HTML or Text is very tedious. It's even dangrous with the current Rails defaults. So follow this guide to use the tool Mailhog to catch all mails locally.

Ever wondered how to use Tailwind CSS AND Bootstrap within the same Rails application? Maybe you have different parts of the app where you want to take advantage of the better suited CSS framework. It's actually pretty easy to do in Rails and our go to approach in monolithic Rails apps.