When you render a nested form for a Movie which has_many :actors, you want to render the right number of blank Actor forms. The right number means:

• A minimum number of blank forms so the user can add more Actors to an existing Movie, ...

Any form fields where users enter numbers should be an <input type="number">.

Numeric inputs have several benefits over <input type="text">:

• On mobile or tablet devices, number fields show a special virtual keyboard that shows mostly digit...

In rare cases you might need something like form_for (for using form builder methods on the resulting block element) but without the surrounding form. One such case would be upda...

While upgrading CarrierWave from version 0.11.x to 3.x, we encountered some very nasty fails. Below are the basic changes you need to perform and some behavior you may eventually run into when upgrading your application. This aims to save you some...

Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra.

This talk will be in German with English slides.

Introduction

As web developers we work with JavaScript every day, even when our backend code uses anothe...

Be careful!
The following solution will delete files on a volume. If you don't know exactly what you're doing, you can run into big trouble with your computer.

I play mp3 files on my car stereo that are stored on a SD-C...

When building a web application, one is tempted to claim it "done" too early. Make sure you check this list.

Different screen sizes and browsers

Desktops, tablets and mobile devices have all different screen resolutions. Does your design wor...

Let's say we have posts with an attribute title that is mandatory.

Our example feature request is to tag these posts with a limited number of tags. The following chapters explain different approaches in Rails, how you can assign such a...