
Chris, would you build Simple_Discussion differently today using Rails 7 and Hotwire?
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I'm curious to hear how Chris would approach building simple_discussion if he had to start from scratch using Ruby 3.2, Rails 7 and Hotwire. Cheers! -Dan H
DanInBC replied
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Considering jumpstart pro for a react native backend, is this a good idea?
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Hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone had any advice on whether jumpstart pro would be a good place to start for me?
I want to create an API for my react native expo app. Does jumpstart pro mak...
William Kennedy replied

Asset Pipeline
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What are some excellent resources to get a good foundational understanding of asset pipeline, esbuild, import maps, js bundling. I have a decent knowledge of Rails, but I have trouble understanding...
Kentastic replied

New website design!
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It took me several weeks to redesign everything and it was a TON of work. The main chunk of work was moving from Bootstrap to TailwindCSS and that's quite a lot of effort because you have to rewrit...
Dhairya Majmudar replied

Should I rewrite my app?
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Before you shout "NO!!" hear me out. I think this may be one of the those cases where a rewrite is reasonable.
Our current application:
* is 6 years old
* is currently on Rails 3.2.14 and Ruby 2.0...
Daniel Weaver replied

Tabs with Stimulus
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Hi Chris - I've been following your guide on adding tabs with Stimulus here: https://github.com/excid3/tailwindcss-stimulus-components
I am not using Tailwind but everything is working. However, w...
Chuck replied
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Webpacker Javascript Embed Code Snippet & Scoped Styles Discussion
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@Chris Oliver, Nice series tutorial. I really enjoy this series of tutorial.
If you have time and If you will convert this embeddable series with React JS then it would be nice. I like your tutoria...
David GEISMAR replied

Building AnimatedGif.me Part 1 Discussion
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This is awesome Chris! Thanks so much! This will help me and my team better understand rails coding from start to finish!
brobles replied

How do you make a tab stay "active" after a page reload
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I have a version of your [Tabs tailwindcss-stimulus component](https://github.com/excid3/tailwindcss-stimulus-components/blob/master/src/tabs.js) up and running. However, I'm struggling to figure o...
Christian Whitesides replied
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How to Deploy Rails to Fly.io Discussion
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Great. Sets up Docker which I didn't want to get into, so that's a great help. Trying it. Looks like $7/month with a Postgres db.
Stéphane Paquet replied

How to use Bootstrap with Webpack & Rails Discussion
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Thanks for posting this and the previous video on using tailwindcss. It's helpful to see the main themes reinforced in each of the videos. One thing that I'm struggling with is what seems like a vi...
bradley replied

Iterating using css grid
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Hi Chris - I am using CSS grid for a three-column blog layout. Unfortunately, when I run the do bock it creates three instances of the same post. I guess this is to be expected.
Not sure how to ge...
Brian Gilbank replied
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How to Add Pagination for Blog Posts in Rails Discussion
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I like the manual approach of looking inside the `pagy` object and finding your way to get what you want! That is what I usually do instead of searching the doc :)
A simpler approach that I recomm...
D john replied

Rich Text Blog Posts with ActionText Discussion
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Hi Chris, thanks for the video. I was wondering how do I truncate the text on the index.html page? I only want to show 130 characters of the content (previously body).
<%= truncate(blog_post.c...

Rails for Beginners Part 17: Login Form Discussion
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It would be great to show how to do login with both username and email as well.

How to display checkbox and string fields like this image in a form?
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I have a `spectrum` boolean column and a `spectrum_color` string column and I'd like to display the options to user as shown in this image. I'm using Tailwind CSS and the Jumpstart Pro Rails templa...
Daniel Weaver replied
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Hatchbox deployment questions
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Im launching my app and using your Hatchbox service to help. I was planning on using digitaloceans managed database and wondering how that works with hatchbox and if I need to change anything in m...
Alex Deering replied

Migrating from Rails UJS to Hotwire: Data Method, Confirm, and Disable With Discussion
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Small comment about those delete links (I really dislike using links for delete requests): when you need to put a delete button inside form, consider moving the submit button outside of the form in...
Colin Ambler replied

I get error when deploy to heroku
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I get error when deploy to heroku
Here is the log file:
-----> Building on the Heroku-20 stack
-----> Determining which buildpack to use for this app
! Warning: Multiple default buildpa...
Alan Reid replied

Deploying our Rails Blog to Production Discussion
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Hello Chris, thank you very much for you do to help us... I'm trying to deploy the blog but when building it on render I'm getting an error... Your RubyGems version (3.0.3.1) has a bug that preven...
Patrick replied