Keith Schacht on Rails

7 items tagged “Rails”

🔗 Campsite Rails codebase (#). There are not a lot of great open source rails projects to learn from, but lately I’ve seen some notable discussion about this one. I’m bookmarking it so I remember to dig in at some point and see what I learn.

#permalink 01/20/25, 10:38 pm / Rails

🔗 Avo—Rails Admin (#). There are a few different gems for building Rails internal admin dashboards. Next time I build one I want to do a deep dive and see if I like any of them. This is a new one I came across that looks interesting.

#permalink 01/20/25, 10:36 pm / Rails

💡 TIL: pick is the single-value version of pluck in Rails #

Instead of doing

Messages.pluck(:user_id).first

you can do

Messages.pick(:user_id)

#permalink 11/26/24, 11:24 pm / Rails

💡 TIL: Rails ActiveRecord has a .sole method #

I just learned about `sole` and `find_sole_by`. They ensure that only a single record is returned and will raise if there is something other than one. It’s the equivalent of:

api_keys = user.api_keys.where(key: key)

if api_keys.length == 1
  api_key = api_keys.first
elsif api_keys.length == 0
  raise "No records found!"
else
  raise "More than one matching record found!"
end

#permalink 11/26/24, 11:15 pm / Rails

🔗 Rails web-based database admin (#). A rails gem that gives you a web-based interface to your database.

#permalink 11/26/24, 4:15 pm / Rails

💡 TIL: Rails migrations can include an up_only part #

When writing a migration in Rails and you need to do one thing which can’t be automatically reversed, I always convert a def change to up and down. It turns out you can slip in an up_only block:

class AddFieldsToUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration[7.1]
  def change
    add_column :users, :first_name, :string
    add_column :users, :last_name, :string

    up_only do
      User.delete_all
    end
  end
end

from RubyCademy

#permalink 10/29/24, 8:29 pm / Rails

📝 Using Hotwire it was simple to build inline title editing #

After generating the Rails scaffolding for my “Conversation” model, it was just a few steps to do inline editing:

Modify conversations/_conversation.html.erb to wrap it in a turbo-frame
Modify conversations/_form.html.erb partial to wrap it in the same turbo-frame so that the form will replace the displayed title
Add a tiny bit of stimulus to enable submit on enter/blur and to enable discard with Escape

After generating the Rails scaffolding for my “Conversation” model, it was just a few steps to do inline editing:

Modify conversations/_conversation.html.erb to wrap it in a turbo-frame
Modify conversations/_form.html.erb partial to wrap it in the same turbo-frame so that the form will replace the displayed title
Add a tiny bit of stimulus to enable submit on enter/blur and to enable discard with Escape

Check out this short demo and walk-through!

This part of my rails open-source ChatGPT app called HostedGPT. You can find the project on GitHub if you want to use it or help contribute to making it better!

Questions? Comment on this Reddit thread.

And this is my full inline_edit_controller.js for reference:

import { Controller } from "@hotwired/stimulus"

export default class extends Controller {
  static targets = [ "input" ]

  connect() {
    this.originalText = this.inputTarget.value
    this.focusInput()
    this.cursorToEnd()
  }

  focusInput() {
    this.inputTarget.focus()
  }

  cursorToEnd() {
    this.inputTarget.selectionStart =
      this.inputTarget.selectionEnd =
        this.inputTarget.value.length
  }

  submitForm() {
    if (this.inputTarget.disabled) return

    this.element.requestSubmit()
    this.inputTarget.disabled = true
  }

  abort() {
    this.inputTarget.value = this.originalText
    this.submitForm()
  }
}

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