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Learn about the boring tools and practices used by Basecamp, GitHub, and Shopify to keep you as happy and productive as the day you typed rails new

Beautiful Rails confirmation dialogs (with zero JavaScript)
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Hotwire components that refresh themselves
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Event sourcing for smooth brains: building a basic event-driven system in Rails
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Writing better Action Mailers: Revisiting a core Rails concept
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Sorting ActiveRecord results by enum values (in SQL)
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Thinking in Hotwire: Progressive Enhancement
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Galaxy brain CSS tricks with Hotwire and Rails
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Adding keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys to StimulusJS
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The most underrated Rails helper: dom_id
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Self-destructing StimulusJS controllers
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Tailwind style CSS transitions with StimulusJS
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Dynamic user content in Rails with Liquid tags
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Accessing Rails environment variables from a StimulusJS Controller
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Rails validations: database level check constraints
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Debugging slow Heroku builds
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Quickly explore your data with `uniq` and `tally`
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Improving your Rails mailers with `email_address_with_name`
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Building lightweight components with Rails Helpers and Stimulus
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Combine `redirect_to` and the `anchor` option
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Lazy-loading content with Turbo Frames and skeleton loader
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