Rails Designer Blog

I wrote a JavaScript library.

A while back I wrote about organizing configuration in Rails.

A table with 200 rows and 5 action icons per row.

Ever wondered how to build those interactive product tours that spotlight elements and walk users through your app?

The eleven-shade color scale from Tailwind CSS is one of those ideas I keep stealing.

This is part 2 of a two-part series.

Every transactional email provider ships a Ruby SDK.

This is part 1 of a two-part series.

Users are creating accounts on your new Saas.

I’ve built many a SaaS.

Changelog widgets, like those from Headway and Beamer, are still a popular way to tell your users about updates to your product.

Beam Up is a command-line tool I wanted for some time.

Before and after (image) sliders are great for product showcases, before/after transformations, renovation projects or photo editing results.

Quizzes are a fun!

I build quite a few sites.

A little while ago I was asked to to build a “white-label” feature into an existing app.

Fuik is a Rails engine for handling webhooks that I launched recently.

I’ve never used “social” media.

Custom elements have been covered here berfore.

In a previous article, I explored building nested forms with Stimulus.

Nine months ago, I introduced Perron, an OSS Rails-based static site generator. 190 commits and 18 releases later, lots of bugfixes and many new features—by yours truly and a few others—have been added.

JavaScript errors (either vanilla or with Stimulus controllers) often happen silently in the browser, leaving your users confused about what went wrong.

If you’ve ever noticed that your CSS transitions feel a bit… flat, you’re not alone (I seem them a lot!

Webhooks are one of those super simple but really powerful tools that almost every developer has needed to use at least once.

When building a SaaS with Rails, I often have more complex logic that spans multiple models and actions.