Rails Credentials
1/ Be sure to use the EDITOR= flag. Choose vi, emacs, or nano Get comfortable with nano, emacs or vi.…
How the Rails Procfile Works, Foreman, Overmind, Hivemind
The Basic Rails Server New Rails 7 apps come into two basic flavors: (1) By default, using Importmaps, and (2)…
Rails 7 Crash Course
Intermediate Rails
See the Browser’s Console Messages in Rspec
In your rails_helper.rb file, in the Rspec.configure block (of course), add this little magic: Now anything you print out to…
Foreman and the Procfile.dev
Here’s a solution that gives you error messages if ANY of your Foreman services crash on launch (in my case,…
Jason Fleetwood-Boldt’s Rails Cookbook
Now updated for Rails 7.2 Here is my unique Rails cookbook for bootstrapping any Rails project on Rails 7. While…
Using Rails with SSL on Localhost
Although most simple apps will operate just fine running on http://localhost:3000 (the default for Rails), it is often advantageous to…
Why Don’t My Assets Reload Correctly in Rails 6 or 7 (Sprockets, Webpacker, JS Bundling, & Shakapacker)
Webpacker was historically the tool used to connect Rails 6 apps to Webpack, the build tool for managing Node dependencies.…
Rails 7: ImportMap-Rails with Bootstrap, Stimulus, Turbo (Quick Setup)
Here we will do a manual setup for ImportMap-Rails starting from rails new --skip-javascript. Please note that these are the…