Show users live progress on long-running background jobs using Rails 8.1's structured event reporter and Active Job Continuations, with no polling and no per-job broadcast wiring.
Build a copy-paste custom element for image uploads that works anywhere in your Rails app. Drag-and-drop, previews and form integration without any framework overhead.
AI-assisted code generation is not free. It comes with a hidden cost: burnout. Are we dangerously ignorant to this problem? And how can we cope with it? In this post, we discuss this question.
Progressive enhancement hasn’t caught on nearly as much as it should. It’s likely related to folks not being able to envision it working in their real world contexts. This post attempts to alleviate that and reignite the conversation.
Create dynamic, white-label themes using Tailwind CSS color palettes and OKLCH color space. Change your app's entire color scheme with a single CSS variable.
Ruby Stack News — by Germán Silva There's a quiet revolution happening in developer tooling, and it doesn't require a cloud subscription, an API key, or sending your proprietary code to someone else's server. Over the past few months I've been experimenting with running large language models entirel
Most supply-chain attacks against RubyGems exploit a narrow window: an account is compromised, a malicious version ships, and any bundle install in the minutes that follow resolves straight to it. ...
How to decide whether to add a Ruby gem dependency or build it yourself: five factors to check for sustainable, maintainable, and secure Rails applications.
A designer and an engineer shipped a production MVP in four weeks on Rails + Inertia. In this post, we share our agentic coding stack, the skills we built, and why it clicked.
Large Rails apps often ship CSS bloated with unused framework classes. Learn how to add PurgeCSS to your asset pipeline to strip dead styles and speed up page loads.
Earlier this year, we were in conversations with a potential client about a vehicle history lookup tool- a web app where dealers and buyers could enter a VIN...
Practical workflows for Ruby on Rails developers: model selection, RSpec/Minitest, debugging, and CLAUDE.md conventions. From Planet Argon's real experiments.
