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Building a Rails Admin Dashboard to Manage Your Users

Every SaaS app needs an admin dashboard. In this video, I’ll show you how I build them in Ruby on Rails, powered by Instrumental Components to make setup fast and flexible. You’ll see how to manage...

1,447 views • 46 likes • 11 comments • March 28, 2025

Team Accounts in Rails: Don’t Overcomplicate it!

Managing team accounts in Ruby on Rails 8 can be complex, but I’ve streamlined the process using my Instrumental Components library. I’ll walk you through handling user authentication, invitations,...

699 views • 28 likes • 10 comments • March 21, 2025

Better Navigations in Rails Applications

Navigation is a core part of any Rails app, and I have a few key elements I include in every project. I’ll walk you through my approach to designing and maintaining primary navs, user menus, breadc...

505 views • 17 likes • 4 comments • March 14, 2025

My Tailwind CSS Philosophy #tailwind #tailwindcss #css

https://instrumental.dev 👉 Join our community and get access to the Instrumental Components library for rapidly building great products with Ruby on Rails and TailwindCSS. https://instrumentalprod...

152 views • 2 likes • 0 comments • March 14, 2025

Keyboard Shortcuts #cursorai #cursor

https://instrumental.dev 👉 Join our community and get access to the Instrumental Components library for rapidly building great products with Ruby on Rails and TailwindCSS. https://instrumentalprod...

500 views • 3 likes • 0 comments • March 12, 2025

AI Hesitation #cursorai #coding

https://instrumental.dev 👉 Join our community and get access to the Instrumental Components library for rapidly building great products with Ruby on Rails and TailwindCSS. https://instrumentalprod...

513 views • 9 likes • 0 comments • March 10, 2025

Rails GET requests with Hotwire Gotchas!

When building with Ruby on Rails and using Hotwire & Turbo, you probably come across many “gotchas”. One of those gotchas is handling (seemingly) simple GET requests using a turbo_stream response....

646 views • 36 likes • 11 comments • March 07, 2025

Coding a Block Editor #rails8

You can see updates for this project here 👉 https://instrumentaleditor.com/ https://instrumental.dev 👉 Join our community and get access to the Instrumental Components library for rapidly buildin...

490 views • 15 likes • 0 comments • March 05, 2025

Block Editor for #rails8

You can see updates for this project here 👉 https://instrumentaleditor.com/ https://instrumental.dev 👉 Join our community and get access to the Instrumental Components library for rapidly buildin...

349 views • 13 likes • 1 comments • March 03, 2025

Am I building a block editor for Rails?

I'm building a block editor for Ruby on Rails. It’s still a work in progress, so follow along as I refine and expand its capabilities. So far, it supports keyboard shortcuts and markdown, and I’ll ...

437 views • 25 likes • 10 comments • February 28, 2025