Let me show you how I create beautiful email templates in just a few minutes and how I use them in my Rails projects.

How to Send Tailwindcss-Styled Emails With Ruby on Rails 7

With the introduction of the Ruby on Rails 7 asset pipeline, there are a lot of new tools available for you to use. But installing Bootstrap might not be as straightforward as you think.

How to Install Bootstrap in Rails 7

Rails 7 ships with a new way of handling assets, which seems so confusing that you might wonder if it's a feature.

A Quick and Easy Guide to the Asset Pipeline in Rails 7

What is a Ruby on Rails Component, and how is it different than a React Component

Is ViewComponent the Future of Rails?

Let's go over the differences between Turbo Frames and Turbo Streams.

Turbo Frames Vs. Turbo Streams

Learn the difference about the many different types of tests in Ruby on Rails and when to use each one.

Feature Tests vs. Integration Tests vs. Unit Tests

Trying to write a Cucumer test for a Google Maps related feature is a bit trickier than you might expect. It involves tweaking the Google Map on the testing environment and using a javascript capable driver like Selelnium. Check out the article to see how you can do it.

How to write a Cucumber test for Google Maps

Helpers in rails are meant to clean up view code by allowing you to extract data processing logic from your markup code. By moving the logic out, you get an added benefit, you can test your 'view logic' easier. At least that’s the most common use case you’ll see in Rails.

Understanding and extending Rails form helpers

Did you ever needed to get the children's children of a newsted tree like structure? Well it turns out, in Rails, that stuff is pretty easy to do. You can use the awesome_nested_set gem and you're all set, everything is right there for you to use.

Nested trees with Ruby on Rails

For a long time, I've been bothered by the problem of using CSS selectors to target DOM elements in my tests (with Capybara). In this short article, I'm going to try Eduardo Gutierrez's suggestion of using data attributes for targeting DOM elements instead of CSS selectors.

Decoupling CSS Selectors From Your Tests

When you are starting out with rails testing there are so many things you need to learn about and thus it’s very hard to have a clear picture of what goes where and what’s the best way of writing unit tests and view specs and integration tests etc.

7 Steps To Better Cucumber Tests

Accessing APIs seems to be pretty straight forward, until you actually do it. There are a few gotchas that I'd like to talk about to make your experience in working with external APIs a little bit more pleasant.

What You Need to Know When Working With External APIs in Rails

Helpers in Rails are used to extract complex logic out of the view so that you can organize our code better.

The Beginner’s Guide to Rails Helpers

Even after 7 years of using Ruby on Rails I still have trouble remembering how to properly use all those options available for the link_to helper. Three out of five times I have to fire up the docs and search for the examples (cause that's how I like to read the docs).

How to Use link_to in Rails

Here's a topic that pops up often especially when faced with the common task of testing controllers in Rails. We have some logic inside a private method and we want to test it somehow. And of course, like most things in ruby, there are a few ways to do it which we’ll look at next.

3 Ways of Testing Private Methods In Rails

These days it seems like everyone is looking for faster tests and for good reason since loading the entire Rails framework on every test run makes the process way to slow.

How to Test Controllers in Rails

This is the process I use to create a new Ruby on Rails project. I usually use the latest stable version of Ruby/Rails and it’s companion gems.

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