Sometimes the best product ideas come from small annoyances. I was writing in a blog app and realized that copying and pasting a link to another article felt clumsy. The URL sat there in the editor, […]
Over 80% of developers prefer dark interfaces, and studies show that dark mode can reduce eye strain by up to 60% in low-light conditions. Yet many Rails applications still lack proper dark mode support, often due […]
We recently built a quiz feature that needed to celebrate correct answers with confetti animations. The challenge wasn’t the confetti itself but coordinating between our Rails controller and the frontend JavaScript without mixing concerns or adding […]
Notifications are everywhere in modern web applications. Users expect to be notified when someone comments on their post, shares their content, or invites them to collaborate in a post. But as your Rails application grows, managing […]
Imagine we’re building a web application to organize our personal trip albums. We could have a list of albums, and when you click on each album, a grid of photos would be displayed. The HTML layout […]
When we have an object with a belongs_to relationship, we often use a select tag to list the data of the related entity. For example, we might have a select with all the available categories for a product […]
