A Ruby Timeout that works
TCP_USER_TIMEOUT, exposed to Ruby
Beautiful Ruby
Learn Ruby the Beautiful Way
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HLS
Shipping video should be as easy as shipping a model.
Put the timeout on the connection
Timeout.timeout wraps your code. The syscall doesn't care.
Give Your Agents a REPL
Expose IRB over a Unix socket so coding agents can introspect and control a running Rails app
Hotswap
Replace a SQLite database on a running Rails server without restarting
Enclave
An MRuby sandbox for running arbitrary Ruby code from LLMs
Framework Detection
Using Ruby modules as singleton objects without extend self
Don't throw the specs out with the factories
FixtureBot gives you the speed of fixtures with the syntax of factories
Superfeature Plan
A Ruby DSL for defining SaaS pricing plans and features
Superfeature Price
A Ruby object for working with prices and discounts
Adding form errors to Superform fields
Display validation errors with any CSS framework
Fizzy SaaS & the mysterious Queen Bee
I walk through the source code of the latest Rails application open-sourced by 37 Signals
37 Signals Fizzy Kanban board
I walk through the source code of the latest Rails application open-sourced by 37 Signals
2025 Ruby Cyber Monday & Black Friday Deals
Save money on Ruby books, courses, licenses, & software
Beautiful Ruby: The First Update
Pre-sold $13,000 of Phlex on Rails video course
Introducing Phlex on Rails
Officially launching a video course for building component-based UIs in Rails
Markdown Image Tags as YouTube and Embed Blocks
Abuse markdown image tags to easily embed YouTube videos and embedded resources in documents
How I created the Phlex on Rails video course outside
An off-the-grid dev setup & recording studio that fits in a backpack
Phlex on Rails: Week Twelve Update
Videos have been shot & registration is live
Supermail mailto links
Start more conversations with your users over email
Introducing Supermail
An easier way to work with emails in Rails.
Phlex on Rails: Week Eleven Update
Hotwire, Stimulus, Turbo, and Rails World
Superform 0.6.x released
Field Kits, Concise ERB rendering, Strong Parameters, Phlex 2.0, and HTML5 inputs
Phlex HTML Elements
How elements are defined in the Phlex library
Phlex on Rails: Week Ten Update
Superform updates & videos released, Github talk, and mechanical keyboards
Phlex on Rails: Week Nine Update
Existing Rails Apps unit complete and gem updates
Render Phlex Components from Rails Console
A handy way to render & debug basic components in isolation
Phlex on Rails: Week Eight Update
Finished Existing Rails app unit and published course source code
Phlex on Rails: Week Seven Update
One unit complete, six more to go, and the end of summer
Service Objects
Not your average method masquerading as a class behind a #call method
Phlex on Rails: Week Six Update
Video quality, a Rails 8 upgrade, and HTTP Live Streaming
Simple Phlex Class Variants
Create 10's of components with slight variations in their class names
Phlex Kits in Erb
Write less code to render Phlex components from Erb templates
Superform vs Rails form helpers: complex select tags with groups
Get precise control over select and option tags with Superform
Superform vs Rails form helpers: simple select tags
More control over select and option tags with Superform
Phlex on Rails: Week Five Update
Getting started with videos, workflow, and finalizing scripts
Phlex on Rails: Week Four Update
Rough draft complete, demo apps, and videos are coming soon
Phlex Turbo Layouts
Turbo Layouts in Phlex
Phlex appends strings
Understanding how Phlex handles string concatenation
Phlex on Rails: Week Three Update
More content updates, a toy project, and an upcoming holiday week
How I "Service Object"
Where I put business logic in a Rails application
PhlexML
Build content pages with Phlex
Phlex on Rails: Week Two Update
Packages for companies, scholarships, and a few more sections are drafted
Don't blame your users' browser
Restricting websites to modern browsers can cause headaches
Phlex on Rails: Week One Update
Drafting the beginning, ending, a few things in the middle and working on plumbing
Content Paywall
A stack of components and parsers to protect locked content
Turbo SwiftUI
A dream that might be coming true
A Phlex table abstraction
HTML table and hyperlink abstractions built with Phlex, Superview, and Superlink
Markdown Referral Code
Automatically inject referral codes into markdown content
Phlex Kits
A collection of Phlex components and utilities