I was tempted to add Sign-in with Google & Apple, but left it as email.

There’s something simple and straight forward about it that I like. You’ll sense that when I talk about Supermail.

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Did you know there's a project called Opal that makes it possible to write JavaScript in Ruby? I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not, but it won a Ruby award so I decided to dive in and Read the Friendly Source Code.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtRO...

Official launch article for the Phlex on Rails video course.

Huge thanks to @joel.drapper.me for creating @phlex.fun. It was fun making the course for it.

I hope this inspires more people to use Phlex so we can all benefit from building UIs with components without React JS bloat.

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Made this video to celebrate finishing the @phlex.fun on Rails video course!

Going deeper down @ioquatix.bsky.social's async Ruby rabbit hole: I RTSFC async-http, a gem that implements http for the Falcon web server that Shopify recently deployed to production.

Turns out it's a few different repos & I tried my best to read 1 in under 10 min.
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I made the Phlex on Rails video course off-the-grid with Starlink internet, solar power, and a MacBook Air. Everything fit in a 35 lb backpack.

This video shows how I built the portable dev setup & recording studio.

I have a list of all the gear at beautifulruby.com/articles/por...

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Shopify deployed Falcon, an async IO Ruby web server that’s been a labor of love by @ioquatix.bsky.social, to a production Rails app.

I’ve been using it for a while in my Rails app and love it, so of course I had to RTFSC.

It’s very beautifully written code, and fast too.

Enjoy! ✌️

Week 12 update: last video is done!

I still have to finish editing, encoding, and uploading, then finish the copy.

Prices are still $289 and will go up to $329 when that's all done.

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An RTSFC of the 37signals ONCE Basecamp Rails app.

In this RTFSC I walk through rack, an http request/response abstraction that sits between Ruby web frameworks like Rails & @hanamirb.org and web servers like Falcon & Puma.

If you haven’t encountered it yet building Ruby web apps, it’s good to know about it because you will.

Hotwire Rails gem source code RTFSC in under 10 minutes.

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I dive into the source for the @phlex.fun gem and rails integration and try to make sense of it in the latest Read The Friendly Source Code, aka: RTFSC.

I probably should have busted this apart into two videos because it spans a lot!

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I did a deep dive on @jamie.schembri.me's new Strong Service gem and was impressed with how powerful the gem is for the amount of source is in it, but I was disappointed I couldn't use it in any of my projects because I'm not sure how to procure it.

github.com/shkm/strong_...

I did a deep dive into ActiveRecord Tented source code to answer a few questions:

1. How much of Rails does it touch
2. What databases does it support
3. How does it run migrations?

Turns out it touches a lot of Rails. Check it out!

Next week I'm going to start publishing videos for the Phlex on Rails course, which means prices will increase from $249 to $289!

Great way to soak up any remaining training budget after #RailsConf2025 🤣

This week I'm finishing the last chapter about using Phlex with Turbo.

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My latest @beautifulruby.com code snippet shows how you can abuse Markdown to quickly drop YouTube embeds, etc. into your blog posts via overriding the image tag.

I used it in my first post at beautifulruby.com/articles/phl... to share a video update from YouTube.

beautifulruby.com/code/embed-y...

What kind of website would I be if I didn't sure beautiful ruby code?

Here's the first snippet I ran into building out the markdown parser for what will eventually be the first article: how to inject referral codes straight into Markdown links.

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