Let’s say your majestic monolith is looking for more interactivity, and you’ve picked up Turbo. What aspects of a Rails app change that may cause some headaches? Add Turbo, and then follow along! Forms First, you need to test all your forms. Turbo dramatically changes the behavior of each form. The biggest change you will […]
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Lazy Loading Lots of Comments HOTWire Tutorial #5
As we continue in building out the HOTWire Hacker News Progressive Web App, it’s time to look at loading the comments. This is an interesting data problem, because each item has comments, and each comment has comments, and you can go recursively until you run out. The original HNWPA pushed all the comment loading into […]
Russian Doll Caching – Building HOTWire HNPWA #4
What if we can increase page load the speed by not duplicating work in the server rendering process?
Paginating Top Items – HOTWire HNPWA #3
If you look at the number of TopItems coming back from the API, you’ll see it’s much more than 30. How do you display all these items? Pagination! ActiveRecord has an offset method that tells the database where to start in the records it returns. If you don’t specify an offset, the database starts counting […]
Turbo Streaming Top Items – HOTWire HNPWA #2
Turbo Streaming is going to work best with ActiveRecord Models. The Hacker News model uses Item models, which can be stories, comments, jobs, polls, or poll options. In the first implementation, the Item was modeled to be as generic as the API dispensed. This time, stories and jobs will continue to be modeled as Item […]
HOTWire HNPWA #1: Setting up for Top Stories
Follow along as we build the HOTWire Hacker News Progressive Webapp, or HHNPWA. This will build on the lessons from the Hacker News Progressive Web App, and will leverage all the enhancements that come from Turbo. In the end, you can compare the two, and decide for yourself what works.
Protecting ActiveStorage Uploads
ActiveStorage is a great addition to Rails. However, if need to protect uploads through a means more secure than the security by obscurity provided by the redirect service, you need to write your own controller. Setup a demo If you don’t have an existing app using Rails 6.1, you can follow these steps. Otherwise skip […]
Updated Tutorial: How Do I Drag and Drop Items in a List?
How do you configure a more complicated Stimulus controller that manages dragging items around in a list? Let’s start with our simple ordered Todo table in html: The todo order comes from a priority associated with each item, so that we’ll be able to keep track of which item needs to be moved. We also […]
Display your Progressive Web App’s Offline Ability
Your progressive web app works offline, but do your users know that? You can use a Stimulus controller to manage your service worker, show the caching status, and hint to your user that the webpage will work offline.
Introducing Mailbox Tester
Do you send lots of emails with your Rails app, and wish you had a way to spot check them? Fix those typos, and make sure the dynamic content looks correct? It’s easy to verify there are no code bugs with Rail’s builtin Mailer preview. But how do you prevent sending someone’s wrong order or […]