Rails Designer

I help teams around the world make their Rails apps a bit nicer to maintain and look at. 🎨 Also kickstart SaaS' in a month. 👷 And built a Rails UI Components library, used by 1000+ developers. 🚀

Amsterdam, The Netherlands Joined on Sep 29, 2023 support@railsdesigner.com https://railsdesigner.com/

Rails Designer

Jul 17

Add newsletter subscriptions to Rails 8 signups

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

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Rails Designer

Jul 10

Permission UI the Rails way

#rails #ruby #hotwire #webdev

2 min read

Rails Designer

Jul 6

Build a changelog widget (with Perron)

#rails #ruby #webdev #marketing

3 min read

Rails Designer

Jun 29

Beam Up: CLI to deploy static sites

#showdev #cli #ruby #tooling

2 min read

Rails Designer

Jun 29

Build a reusable before/after image slider with Stimulus

#ruby #rails #hotwire #webdev

2 min read

Rails Designer

Jun 13

Building a quiz with Stimulus

#ruby #rails #hotwire #webdev

4 min read

Rails Designer

Jun 4

Meet Mata: live reload for Rack Apps

#webdev #ruby #rails #hotwire

1 min read

Rails Designer

May 28

Building user-customizable themes with Tailwind CSS

#ruby #rails #tailwindcss #webdev

4 min read

Rails Designer

May 22

Inbound email in Rails apps with Fuik

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

Rails Designer

May 19

Thoughts, notes and what I read

#ruby #rails #hotwire #webdev

1 min read

Rails Designer

May 15

Reusable drag-and-drop image preview in Rails

#ruby #rails #javascript

4 min read

Rails Designer

May 15

Adding edit, delete and reposition for nested forms in Rails with Stimulus

#ruby #rails #webdev #hotwire

3 min read

Rails Designer

May 1

Perron 1.0 here is here

#ruby #rails #webdev

3 min read

Rails Designer

Apr 23

Catch JavaScript errors with user-friendly error feedback

#ruby #rails #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Rails Designer

Apr 16

Level up CSS transitions with cubic-bezier

#ruby #rails #hotwire #css

3 min read

Rails Designer

Apr 10

Announcing Fuik: a webhook engine for Rails

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

Rails Designer

Apr 9

Form Objects vs Service Objects in Rails

#ruby #rails #webdev

4 min read

Rails Designer

Apr 2

Refactoring a JavaScript class

#ruby #rails #hotwire #javascript

3 min read

Rails Designer

Mar 30

Everyone, say “hi” again to Rails Icons 👋

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

Rails Designer

Mar 19

Build custom emojis with Stimulus

#ruby #rails #webdev #hotwire

5 min read

Rails Designer

Mar 12

Video Preview on Hover with Stimulus

#ruby #rails #hotwire #javascript

3 min read

Rails Designer

Mar 5

Welcome to a new Rails Designer

#ruby #rails #webdev #hotwire

6 min read

Rails Designer

Feb 26

Understanding importmap-rails

#ruby #rails #webdev #hotwire

4 min read

Rails Designer

Feb 24

Simplifying timestamp toggles in Rails

#ruby #rails #webdev

1 min read

Rails Designer

Feb 19

Record video in Rails with Stimulus

#rails #ruby #hotwire #javascript

6 min read

Rails Designer

Feb 12

Introducing Icons: Add any icon library to your Ruby app

#ruby #rails #webdev #design

2 min read

Rails Designer

Feb 5

Replace Turbo confirm with native dialog

#ruby #rails #hotwire #webdev

3 min read

Rails Designer

Feb 4

Adding user impersonation to Rails 8 authentication

#ruby #rails #webdev

3 min read

Rails Designer

Jan 29

Creating a link-icon custom element

#rails #webdev #javascript #hotwire

4 min read

Rails Designer

Jan 26

CSS Counters: auto-update list numbers without JavaScript

#css #tailwindcss #webdev #rails

2 min read

Rails Designer

Jan 22

Building optimistic UI in Rails powered by Turbo

#ruby #rails #webdev #hotwire

5 min read

Rails Designer

Jan 15

Nested forms without `accepts_nested_attributes_for` in Rails

#ruby #rails #webdev #hotwire

4 min read

Rails Designer

Jan 8

Use native dialog with Turbo (and no extra JavaScript)

#ruby #rails #hotwire #webdev

4 min read

Rails Designer

Dec 25 '25

The Best of 2025 from Rails Designer

#ruby #rails #hotwire #webdev

6 min read

Rails Designer

Dec 18 '25

Add snow to your app with Stimulus

#ruby #rails #hotwire #webdev

7 min read

Rails Designer

Dec 11 '25

New: Test and send webhooks and API requests in development

#webdev #tooling #ruby #rails

2 min read

Rails Designer

Dec 10 '25

Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)

#ruby #rails #hotwire #javascript

6 min read

Rails Designer

Nov 26 '25

Rails Designer's Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal

#ruby #rails #hotwire #webdev

2 min read

Rails Designer

Nov 20 '25

Update favicon with badge using custom turbo streams in Rails

#rails #ruby #hotwire #webdev

3 min read

Rails Designer

Nov 13 '25

Inline editing with custom elements in Rails

#rails #ruby #javascript #hotwire

4 min read

Rails Designer

Nov 6 '25

Update page title counter with custom turbo streams in Rails

#ruby #rails #hotwire #webdev

4 min read

Rails Designer

Nov 5 '25

Two products, one Rails codebase

#ruby #rails #webdev

5 min read

Rails Designer

Oct 30 '25

Extending the Kanban board (using Rails and Hotwire)

#ruby #rails #hotwire #javascript

8 min read

Rails Designer

Oct 23 '25

Announcing Attractive.js, a new JavaScript-free JavaScript library

#rails #ruby #webdev #hotwire

6 min read

Rails Designer

Oct 16 '25

Introducing Perron: Rails-based static site generator

#webdev #rails #ruby #hotwire

5 min read

Rails Designer

Oct 9 '25

Create a Kanban board with Rails and Hotwire

#ruby #rails #webdev #hotwire

6 min read

Rails Designer

Oct 7 '25

Announcing Forge — self-hosted community software

#ruby #rails #webdev

1 min read

Rails Designer

Oct 2 '25

Visual loading states for Turbo Frames with CSS only

#ruby #rails #webdev #hotwire

4 min read

Rails Designer

Sep 25 '25

Components in Rails without gems

#ruby #rails #webdev

5 min read

Rails Designer

Sep 24 '25

Features your SaaS MVP Don't Need

#saas #webdev #rails #ruby

4 min read

Rails Designer

Sep 18 '25

Stimulus basics: what is a Stimulus controller?

#ruby #rails #hotwire #webdev

4 min read

Rails Designer

Sep 11 '25

Typography for Rails developers

#rails #design #ruby #webdev

5 min read

Rails Designer

Sep 10 '25

Flexible Feature Access in Rails SaaS Apps

#ruby #rails #saas #webdev

4 min read

Rails Designer

Sep 4 '25

Modern CSS organization (in Rails)

#webdev #css #rails #ruby

5 min read

Rails Designer

Aug 28 '25

Shift+Click Selection for Bulk Actions with Stimulus

#ruby #rails #hotwire #webdev

2 min read

Rails Designer

Aug 27 '25

Organized Configuration in Rails

#ruby #rails #webdev

3 min read

Rails Designer

Aug 21 '25

User-Specific Content in Turbo Stream Partials

#rails #ruby #webdev #hotwire

4 min read

Rails Designer

Aug 14 '25

String Inflectors: bring a bit of Rails into JavaScript

#ruby #rails #javascript #hotwire

4 min read

Rails Designer

Aug 7 '25

Create a macOS-inspired stack UI with Stimulus and Tailwind CSS

#rails #ruby #hotwire #tailwindcss

6 min read