Rails's webpacker gem makes it super easy to load both Bootstrap's CSS and JS into your Rails app using webpack

CSS frameworks like Tailwind, Bootstrap, Foundation, etc all come with many CSS classes you probably aren't using. This creates huge CSS files unless we use a tool like PurgeCSS to look through our code and remove the unused classes.

With TailwindCSS 1.0 just around the corner and some changes in Rails 6 to Webpacker, we take a look at how to install and setup the latest version of TailwindCSS with Rails 6.0

Rails 6 defaults to using Webpacker for Javascript instead of the asset pipeline. We'll learn how everything is structured and laid out and see how to add Flatpickr to Rails 6 including both the Javascript and CSS for it.

Changing the database adapter for a Rails app has always been an annoying, manual change to make. Rails 6.0 introduces the "rails db:system:change" command to make this easier using all the built-in generators for database.yml and more.

Mentioning Users with an @mention is a super common feature. Trix and ActionText are now part of Rails 6 which means we can very easily add support for tagging users with @mentions and other custom attachments in your applications.

A quick introduction to using ActionText in your Rails apps for editing and displaying rich text plus uploading files

Deploying Rails to production for the first time can be confusing and daunting. We'll walk through every step of the process and show you how to setup a production Rails server from scratch.

Ever wondered what the difference between Symbols and Strings were? Why would we use one over the other when most languages only have strings?

Linux server administration can be a pain. You can use cockpit to monitor your servers and keep an eye on long running processes like Sidekiq and Puma without having to SSH into your servers.