Recently I had reason to add dark mode to a Ruby on Rails 8 app. After a few iterations, I landed on the following implementation which I thought I would share. This implementation persists the dark mode setting across page loads using local storage, so it is pretty ideal for most applications. I am making...

It occurred to me today that when working in a Rails 7+ codebase, it might occasionally be helpful to see exactly where the turboframes are on any given web page, since turboframes are invisible to the human eye. This highlighting would be a great option to have in development where only we can see it,...

If you are reading this blog post, chances are that a search engine brought you here. You probably created a new stimulus controller for your Rails 7+ app, the system is not recognizing this new file, and you are searching the web for ideas on what might have went wrong. I recently went through the...

What is a RubyGem? (This blog post is a port over from a blog post on my now decommissioned previous website) A Rubygem is a bit of code that a ruby developer wrote, made available in a portable format and posted to a public server, so that bit of code can be used on other...