I was writing an app that had a post model. The post model belongs to a “type.” In order to create my form for my post model, I needed to create a dynamic select field with my options coming from my type model.
Here’s how I did that.
First, in…
So you’ve been writing Ruby for a while. Maybe you’re familiar with control flow, data types, and the overall way to work with Ruby.
Before you start writing large programs or before working with others, it’s important that your code is consistent and sticks to a single style.
In this…
Welcome to part 3 of my React on Ruby on Rails (React on Rails?, RX3?, RoRoR?). Today, we’re going to add CRUD functions to our app. We already have it set up on the backend, now we just need to connect our frontend. This should be relatively easy.
Here is…
Hey, Josh here again. Lately, I’ve been showing you how to build projects with Ruby on Rails and React.js. Today, I’m going to show you something a little bit different — how to easily make your website responsive.
If you’ve written any CSS for responsive websites, then you know how…
Forms are the backbone of the Internet. Without them, it would be pretty difficult to make pass information between web pages. Luckily, working with forms in React.js is pretty easy.
Let’s build a basic form today using a functional component and using the useState hook.
First, let’s make a simple…
Previously, we set up our Ruby on Rails app to use React.
Now, we need to do a few more things to make sure our app is really functional. We still have to
- Set up our model in rails
- Have our frontend connect to our backend
- Integrate Redux so React…
Working with strings is one of the most common things you’ll do when working with Ruby or Ruby on Rails. Luckily, Ruby has all sorts of great built-in methods that help us work with strings.
I put together this guide so you know what methods are available to you when…
If you’re like most developers, you probably have a lot of work to do. Because of this, smart developers like to take advantage of tools that let them write less code.
And Bootstrap is a tool that does just that. …
Ruby on Rails is such a wonderful framework to work with. However, using Embedded Ruby (.erb) and ajax to build apps with dynamic frontends can be painful.
And that’s where front-end frameworks like React, Angular, and Ember come in. …
Pretty much any application that you want to make will include some portions that need to be restricted.
Maybe you have certain pages you want to block, or maybe you just want to make sure users can log in to your site and post items.
Whatever it is, making sure…
