Storybook on Finnian Anderson

From Paperclip to Active Storage at scale

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 21:54:47 +0000

I was until recently working on a Ruby on Rails project as part of my day job, which used Paperclip for attaching files within the application. With Paperclip being deprecated in May 2018, it was high time we moved to an alternative.

Active Storage was added to Rails 5.2 in April 2018 and having used it in other projects, I was confident it was the right choice for us.

These articles really helped us out with the migration, read them a few times:

Hotwire in the real world.

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 07:08:15 +0000

I’ve recently been working on a new project at work which utilises Rails and Hotwire.

There’s lots of articles out there about getting started with Hotwire in Rails but I couldn’t find much in the way of how to architect a Rails app in this way or how to run it in production, so this is a bit of a brain dump on how we’ve done things, what we learnt along the way, plus some things we don’t like.

View Components, Storybook and Tailwind: The Holy Trinity?

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 03:38:15 +0000

In this post, I’m going to cover the use of some popular open-source technologies, that when combined together provide an extremely powerful developer experience. This will be orientated towards Rails, but it should be possible to swap out View Components with something else for your stack.

Introduction

Before we get started, it may be useful to note that I’ve annotated the sections with their relevant commits in this project’s repository where applicable.