Adding Tailwind UI to Ruby on Rails

[@andrewbroad6109]

I could relate to this episode as I went through the same experience for my most recent rails app. Tailwindui is a fantastic investment for those of us that aren’t css experts. You’ll get the hang of it in no time.

[@jazhar1111]

Great content. Thanks for showing your trouble shooting process. It's incredibly helpful for a 3rd year developer, like myself, to see a seasoned developer work through build errors.

[@cjav_dev]

Thanks, Jason! So happy to hear that.

[@BenAitcheson-z9t]

I added tailwind with my rails new (--css=tailwind) and just needed bin/dev to start everything up 😅 great video though. I love that you kept the debugging steps in.

[@kwhandy]

now I need someone with Tailwind UI Philanthropy-title in their linkedin in order to get those things

[@JonathanValentimFerreira]

Great and fun vídeo! Kkk Congrats man!

[@adelalahmed1722]

Hi, Thanks for the video! I wanted to know how could I get the dropdown work properly? Regards

[@gamgam1308]

Hi, dropdown doesn't work for me either did you manage to get it working?

[@PcHabitat]

Great video sir. WHat do you feel is the future of Rails? Is it still worth learning in 2022 for a career? Please advise, thank you.

[@cjav_dev]

I do think Rails worth learning in 2022. Many companies want to optimize for developer happiness to keep morale and retention high. I have written applications in many many programming languages and ruby remains my favorite and most fun to work with lang. Assuming ruby will last decades more, there aren’t any other ruby frameworks that come close to the rails ecosystem in terms of supported gems, plug-ins, third party integration support, hosting platforms etc. Rails is also still one of the only true (batteries included) full stack frameworks, only really competing with Django, Laravel, .NET Core, Phoenix and maybe Wordpress? The industry trends towards next.js, go lang, rust, serverless and the like, are promising, but those all require you to make choices about: ORM, background jobs, emailing, view template frameworks, build pipelines, etc. It comes down to happiness and productivity for me. How fast can I get v0.0.1 published? How fast can I add a feature? If I loved PHP, I would go with Laravel. The tooling for Laravel is newer and IMO a little better in many cases than rails. You’ll also note that the pendulum is swinging back from handling most logic on the client to handling most logic on the server again. Server rendered JavaScript frameworks are in vogue (look at next.js ssr and remix run). At the end of the day, if it’s 100% about the progression of a career in web dev, mastering the fundamentals of JavaScript and how browsers work will likely pay the highest dividends. Then, deeply learning any full stack batteries included framework like rails. I’ve been hired to work on applications written in languages and frameworks I wasn’t familiar with, but because I understood the system and how things fit together, companies trusted I would pick it up. (E.g. I worked on a python Django + angular app for 4+ years 2015-2019, but hadn’t written python before getting that job.) Sorry this is long! :) hard to edit on phone.

[@PcHabitat]

@@cjav_dev Thank you so much for all of your input. So it wont be a hinderence if I focus on rails and then maye on node a little later?? Also I noticed you're using Vim. How is that compared to VSCode???

[@cjav_dev]

@@PcHabitat yeah i think learning rails is a good bet. Node is also very popular, but not as many conventions are settled so every node app varies pretty widely in how it’s implemented. Eventually, node is also good to learn. I enjoy vim a lot, but I recommend against trying to learn vim at the same time as learning a new language or framework. Once you’re feeling comfortable in a framework and working with a big app day-to-day, I do think vim can potentially make you faster. Modal editing is great for code. I’d say it takes about 4-6 weeks of working full time in Vim to get back to your same speed as VS Code. With deliberate practice you can get much faster.

[@PcHabitat]

@@cjav_dev Thanks a lot sir

[@alainmordaunt3466]

Thanks CJ..

[@louis.blythe]

Thank you!

[@udonwadon]

hold up. why are you paying for tailwind again?

[@cjav_dev]

Tailwind.css is free, but the UI tool kit, Tailwind UI is a paid set of pre-built components.