Ruby on Rails, Claude Code and Worktrees
Here’s how I use Claude Code to develop Ruby on Rails applications. Mostly medium sized ones that have been around for a while. No green-field, everything-is...
Writing
Multi Select with Hotwire Combobox
Recently, I put some work into lowering the barrier to contributing talks to RubyEvents. Not entirely out of the kindness of my heart, I might add. As the or...
Customizing Solr Highlighting with Sunspot
Need full-text text search in your web app? You don’t have to use Elasticsearch. There are alternatives. Even in 2025, some will refuse to switch to Elastics...
Porting a Ruby Gem to the browser with ruby.wasm
When I built a small Ruby command-line tool - Tints ‘N Shades - I wondered: What does it take to run this library in the browser? Can it be done? Should it b...
Using Jekyll with Esbuild
I know. What an unholy union. Why would anyone do this? Why would anyone want that?
Continuous Deployment with GitHub Actions and Kamal
Kamal is a wonderfully simple way to deploy your applications anywhere. It will also be included by default in Rails 8. Kamal is trivial, but I don’t recomme...
The Simplest Static Site Generator
Sometimes, you want to build a simple HTML page and populate it with some data. You may have some JSON lying around and want to make a simple website to visu...
(Ab)Using Single Table Inheritance to Refactor Fat Models
How to deal with a model that tries to do too much? Consider something like this:
Real-Time Command Line Applications with Action Cable and Thor
If you build a Rails application that has any kind of real-time feature, chances are you use Action Cable.
Processing images with ActiveStorage and Imgproxy
ActiveStorage has a nifty feature that allows you to serve variants of uploaded images. Think of a user uploading a profile image. You won’t need the full-si...