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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Need something to stare at while your agent works? We made our @dotruby.com logo spin in 3D in your favorite terminal 💎 curl -fsSL dotruby.com/dotruby.sh | bash

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tiny Rails papercut that kept bothering me: Sometimes I want pluralize to pick "person" vs "people" without the count. So I opened a PR for: pluralize(2, "person", count: false) → "people" Just me, or have you needed this too? 😅 github.com/rails/rails/...

[actionview]: Add count option to Action View pluralize helper by elalemanyo · Pull Request #58583 · rails/rails

Motivation / Background This Pull Request has been created because pluralize is sometimes useful in views only for selecting the singular or plural word, without rendering the numeric count. For ex...

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Am I the only one who finds sending a Quick Tunnel URL to my phone just to test something incredibly annoying? 😅 So I opened a PR to cloudflared to print a QR code right in the terminal → github.com/cloudflare/c... Scan → open → test 📱 @cloudflaredev.bsky.social, can we get this one merged? 👀

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

TIL: write less shell 🐚 kill any process running on a port in one command 💀 (alias in screenshot 👇)

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

AI-generated code comments keep reminding me of WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get. If the comment only repeats what the next line of code already says, it’s not documentation — it’s a subtitle. 😅 The best comments explain why, not what.

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

TIL: Rendering multiple form_with forms on the same page can generate duplicate input IDs 😬 That led to a confusing Turbo behaviour: after an autosubmit, focus was restored to the first matching element, causing page jump to the top. Fix: add a namespace to generate unique IDs.

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Tiny detail. Huge delight. Saw this from @jhey.dev and had to try it myself 🙂 Every pointer deserves a pointerdown.

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Saw this beautiful toggle switch from jonkanter and couldn’t resist rebuilding it. CSS only. No JavaScript. Just a fun little challenge. ✨ codepen.io/elalemanyo/f...

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Nice little Rails tip from @andycroll.bsky.social 👌 I learned that helpers like tag.*, link_to and form builders already process class: values, so you can pass arrays directly without wrapping them in class_names. Worth the read 👇 andycroll.com/ruby/use-cla...

Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Cardinal Directions Select UI using pure CSS 🧭 The user still gets a <select> for choosing N, S, E, W, etc. — but the compass gives animated visual feedback based on the selected option. No js. Just :has(), option:checked, SVG, and CSS transforms 👇 codepen.io/elalemanyo/p...

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

we used to have dreams... now we have 47 todo apps syncing tasks we’ll never do “save for later” is just procrastination with better UX

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

TIL: write less shell 🐚 serve your current folder via HTTP (locally or with Docker) ⚡️

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I built csspin-rails — like importmap-rails, but for CSS. Pin CSS packages from npm, vendor them into vendor/assets/stylesheets, and use them. No Node.js needed. Not sure if I’m the only one who needed this 😄 Feedback welcome 👇 github.com/elalemanyo/c...

GitHub - elalemanyo/csspin-rails: Importmap-style CSS dependency management for Rails. Pin, vendor, and manage styles without Node.

Importmap-style CSS dependency management for Rails. Pin, vendor, and manage styles without Node. - elalemanyo/csspin-rails

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

CSS doesn't natively handle truncating text from the middle. Inspired by @wesbos.com , I built a Stimulus controller for it. Super useful for long URLs & filenames. Also using Cheng Lou pretext for smarter truncation 🙏 Super useful for long URLs & filenames 👇 github.com/elalemanyo/s...

GitHub - elalemanyo/stimulus-truncate-text-from-middle: Stimulus controller for middle text truncation, powered by @chenglou/pretext

Stimulus controller for middle text truncation, powered by @chenglou/pretext - elalemanyo/stimulus-truncate-text-from-middle

Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I know there are a ton of aspect ratio calculators out there… …but I still wanted to build our own 😄 Simple, fast, no distractions. Sometimes it’s just nice to have exactly the tool you want 👇 www.dotruby.com/tools/aspect...

Aspect Ratio Calculator | DotRuby

Calculate matching dimensions from a fixed aspect ratio.

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Just read “The Too Early Breakpoint” by @ishadeed.com — and once again, super inspiring to read. Such a clear way of explaining a subtle responsive design problem, with practical takeaways you can apply immediately. Always a pleasure to read your posts 👏🙏 ishadeed.com/article/too-...

ishadeed.com

The Too Early Breakpoint

An opinion on why we shouldn't switch to the smallest design too early.

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Needed a helper to find the next occurrence of a date (birthdays, holidays, etc.), so I built it. Now it’s an open @rubyonrails.org.web.brid.gy PR: Date.upcoming_date(month, day) 🎉 Proud to give back to the open-source community that gives us so much ❤️ Hope it gets merged 🤞 t.co/XD0hlDYenB

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Just launched a little side tool 🚀 Test XPath expressions against HTML snippets right in the browser. Built with Rails + Nokogiri, CodeMirror, and Catppuccin ✨ Perfect for experimenting with XPath expressions 🧪 👉 www.dotruby.com/tools/xpath-...

XPath Playground | DotRuby

Test XPath expressions against HTML snippets.

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Inspired by @donnfelker.bsky.social’s Stimulus controllers for Lexxy, I built one that adds file type and size validation directly in the editor. Big thanks to @jorgemanru and the @basecamp team 🙌 Full write-up 👉 www.dotruby.com/articles/add...

Adding File Validation to Lexxy Editor with Stimulus

A simple Stimulus controller to validate attachments in the Lexxy editor — restricting file types and sizes before they get uploaded.

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

You don't actually need Ruby installed to work with Rails locally 🤯 I wrote about this odd idea: “Rails without Ruby” 👉 dotruby.com/articles/rai...

Yes, you can run Rails without installing Ruby. With VS Code devcontainers, your whole Rails setup lives inside Docker — no version managers, no sy...

Rails Without Ruby

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Need an extra email address but don't want to create a new account? Most providers support plus addressing → just add +something before the @. All emails still arrive in your inbox, and you can filter them easily. Example: bob+needanothermail@gmail.com 📬

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Redesigning a Rails app? 🚀 We discovered an underrated feature: :variants. With just one magic suffix you can run old & new layouts in parallel — no JS, no cookies, just Rails ✨ Full write-up 👉 dotruby.com/articles/eas...

Easy Redesign in Rails: Run Old and New Side by Side with :variants

Rails variants are usually used to serve different views for devices — but you can use them for much more, like running a redesign side by side.

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Discovered a neat trick in the turbo_power gem by @marcoroth.dev 💡 turbo_stream.toggle_css_class supports force:, just like the DOM API. No need for manual logic — may the force: be with you 🛸✨

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

HexaPDF gem from @gettalong.bsky.social made it super easy to add PDF form filling to our rails app 🙌 The hardest part? Finding the PDF form field names 🤯 We wanted to give back, so we built a tool to list them all: dotruby.com/tools/hexapd... Drag a PDF → see all field names → done ✅

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🚨 Rails tip: Appending query params with concat or + "?..." can break your URLs — especially if the URL already includes parameters. Instead of risking invalid or double ?s, use a proper helper that merges params safely. 👇

Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

💡 I needed to check if a string is a valid app path in my Rails app — surprisingly, couldn’t find a built-in way. So I wrote a small helper method. Sharing in case it helps someone — or if there’s a better way? 🤔👇

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I remembered today and thought I'd share: You can use .many? instead of count > 1 — more readable and sometimes faster! 💡 On relations: uses LIMIT 2 ⚠️ On associations: loads all records

Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Anchor links not scrolling correctly in your Rails app? Turbo Drive intercepts clicks and replaces page content via fetch (not a full page reload) — and that breaks native #anchor scrolling. Fix it with data-turbo="false" Tamed the Turbo — anchor away! ⚓

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Just discovered you can add an if after a content_tag block in Rails views — way cleaner than wrapping the whole thing! Always finding little gems in ERB 💎😍

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Pluralizing model names in Rails with proper i18n — there's a helper for that. I wrote a small helper that uses model_name.human(count: ...) to do it the right way — fully i18n-ready. Simple, readable, and it works with any model as long as it's been translated 😉

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

💡 Clean Rails views with conditional wrapping? Use conditional_tag to wrap content in a tag only if a condition is true. No more messy if blocks in ERB. Just clean, readable templates. Discovered this gem thanks to @scarfacedeb 🙌

Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Nobody likes to pack — not IRL, not on GitHub. 🧳 So I built github-repo-manager: For when you're leaving a GitHub org and want to take all your repos without the manual drag-n-drop drama. One script. No cardboard boxes. 🐙💼 github.com/elalemanyo/g...

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

💡 Want your Rails app to teach you something new every time it boots? Check out get-smart by igorkasyanchuk — it shows handy Ruby & Rails tips during startup. A clever gem with a thoughtful touch 💎✨ github.com/igorkasyanch...

GitHub - igorkasyanchuk/get-smart: Learn Ruby/Rails topics during your app’s boot time.

Learn Ruby/Rails topics during your app’s boot time. - igorkasyanchuk/get-smart

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alexis.bernard.io @alexis.bernard.io · 16/05/2025

I released version 0.4.0 of active_hashcash. Thanks to @ivanverges.bsky.social and @elalemanyo.bsky.social for their contributions. ActiveHashcash protects Rails applications against bots and brute force attacks without annoying humans. github.com/BaseSecrete/...

Release v0.4.0 · BaseSecrete/active_hashcash

What's Changed Prevent from password managers to submit the form before the stamp has been computed Added support for the "button" submit form tag Added Catalan language Added base_controller_clas...

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

💡 Turbo Tip: Preserve search state and update the browser's URL when paginating within a <turbo-frame> by adding data-turbo-action="advance". This promotes frame navigation to a full page visit, enhancing user experience. 📖 Learn more: turbo.hotwired.dev/handbook/fra...

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

make any ssh server feel like home 🏡 add this to your VS Code settings: "remote.SSH.defaultExtensions" now it auto-installs your favorite extensions when you connect no more bare-bones VS Code sessions 🫠

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Need a quick user icon but don't use an icon set? Just write Do and rotate it 90° Boom 💥 You've got a minimalist one Genius idea from @lopezcodes.bsky.social 👏

Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Just discovered CodeSwing — 🔥 VS Code extension for building live HTML/CSS/JS demos right inside the editor. Made by github.com/lostintangent, who's behind lots of awesome dev tools. Definitely worth a follow! github.com/lostintangen...

GitHub - lostintangent/codeswing: VS Code extension for building web applications ("swings") using a interactive and editor-integrated coding environment

VS Code extension for building web applications ("swings") using a interactive and editor-integrated coding environment - lostintangent/codeswing

Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 07/04/2025

Reposted by Alemaño

Here are just some highlights from All About Code and Ruby section from: @andycroll.bsky.social @coolprobn.bsky.social @hansschnedlitz.com @RubyCademy @elalemanyo.bsky.social @David Heinemeier Hansson But there are much more code samples to be inspired and write beautiful #Ruby

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"👉 All about Code and Ruby
There a lot of code samples included; here are just some of them:

Andy Croll shared his Ruby solution to a Cassidoo coding challenge, using Rails' Active Support for time manipulation to find the longest time gap between a series of times.
Prabin Poudel shared a useful Ruby tip about Array.wrap
Hans Schnedlitz shared a tip about speeding up Rails migrations by using bulk migrations with the bulk: true option in change_table
Ruby Cademy highlighted String#scrub as an underappreciated Ruby method that helps clean up problematic character encodings
Victor Cobos shared a useful technique for detecting newly attached files in Rails with Active Storage, using before_save callbacks
David Heinemeier Hansson shared a code sample from Basecamp’s diff feature, unchanged since 2016, highlighting Ruby’s readability and longevity."

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Ever forget how @github.com-flavored markdown does callouts? Same 😅 Now I just type :note, :tip, :warning, etc. and espanso.org fills it in for me ✨ Thanks terzi_federico for making this possible 🙌

Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Found a good way to check if a file was newly attached in Rails For has_one_attached or has_many_attached Hope this helps someone save time! 👇

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I was getting tired of my logs being flooded with Sass deprecation warnings when compiling bootstrap in my rails app 😩 Turns out, you can silence them by just adding this: --quiet-deps --silence-deprecation=import,global-builtin No more noise! 🚀 sass-lang.com/documentatio...

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🚀 Keeping your JavaScript dependencies up to date is easier than ever! Just add a simple script to your package.json and update everything with one command. Check out npm-check-updates → github.com/raineorshine...

Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Just discovered a neat @vscode.dev setting: "debug.allowBreakpointsEverywhere": true Turns out, you can set breakpoints literally anywhere — *.html.erb, *.turbo_stream.erb, you name it. No more “breakpoints can't be set here” nonsense. Feels like cheating, but it works. 😎

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

✨ Conditional form fields with pure HTML & Tailwind! Want to show/hide fields based on selected option? No JS! Just use group-has-* from Tailwind. #1: Show input when selected. #2: Show a different <select> for each option. 🔥 Works great for forms with dynamic inputs!

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Want to add Picture-in-Picture (PiP) to your Rails app using Hotwire? 🎥🚀 Check out this great guide by @nicogaldamez.bsky.social on making it work seamlessly with Turbo! unagisoftware.com/articles/pic...

unagisoftware.com

Picture-in-Picture with Hotwire in Ruby on Rails - Unagi

Learn how to keep your video player persistent while browsing in Rails using Turbo and Stimulus. Improve the user experience!

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Alemaño @elalemanyo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Want to hide scrollbars without breaking scrolling? 🎨✨ I put together a clean CSS approach + the Tailwind way, and even included a demo so you can test it yourself! 🚀 www.dotruby.com/articles/hid...