AlexandruGlv

I built Rails Blocks (https://railsblocks.com), a growing library of Tailwind and Stimulus UI components for Rails. I first released it this summer with 20 component sets with 120+ examples and it now includes 48 sets with 260+ examples, all battle-tested in production SaaS apps.

The goal is to give us Rails devs a modern and reusable component library similar to what exists in the React ecosystem but built natively for Rails with Stimulus.

Note that most sets are free (≈80%) and some are paid (≈20%) to keep the project sustainable.

In early November, I added four new component sets: Banner, Loading Indicator, Scroll Area, and Stepper.

(The banner component set includes a free Black Friday banner component for next week!)

You can see the changelog here to see the latest ones: https://railsblocks.com/changelog

Thank you for the feedback Lio! The file upload widget is already in the roadmap :)

There are currently 128 component examples in total for 20 types of components:

- accordion (11 examples)

- animated_number (11 examples)

- buttons (10 examples)

- carousel (6 examples)

- clipboard (7 examples)

- color_picker (6 examples)

- combobox (8 examples)

- context_menu (4 examples)

- date_picker (10 examples)

- dropdown (7 examples)

- emoji_picker (2 examples)

- forms (2 examples)

- modal (9 examples)

- popover (6 examples)

- select (5 examples)

- slideover (7 examples)

- tabs (8 examples)

- tooltip (7 examples)

- two_factor (1 examples)

- tree_view (1 examples)

To see all the examples & docs, you can go to each individual component type page

Thanks! It seems to be because Tailwind CSS v4.0 is designed for Safari 16.4+, Chrome 111+, and Firefox 128+.

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/upgrade-guide

Fixing this on old browsers would require refactoring everything to an earlier version of Tailwind, I'll investigate this.

Hi potato-peeler! It should normally work with older browsers, but I haven't tested all browsers on all versions on all devices.

Did you encounter issues with older browsers on your side? If yes let me know and I'll look into it!

Thank you Lio! :)

I had also came across this which could be useful: https://store.afomera.dev/learn-hotwire

I tried to work in the UX and make it easy to navigate, while still promoting the company I work for without making it too intrusive but I’m open to feedback.

Could you please tell me what did you find looked scammy specifically?

I've spent a lot of time on the project so that's probably why I took it a bit personally, but you're right I shouldn't fall in the trap of getting into internet fights.

Are you insinuating that I created fake accounts to give myself pats on the back?

Let's look at the profiles of the 2 accounts that used this totally normal word:

1. @shantnutiwari, with an account that is over 1-year-old, who has 2 websites that he seems to still maintain.

2. @chrisrickard, who directly linked his Twitter account, and to me seems like a pretty real human being.

Would be a lot of effort creating all of this for some engagement on a post don't you think?

If you don't like the guide it's completely fine; I don't expect everyone to like it, but don't make false accusations.

Funny you mention it, reading his book "write useful books" is what initially inspired me to create this guide :p

Great book, I highly recommend it!

Thank you! Hope you'll find it useful :)

Dude I literally wrote on the landing page, and said in the trailer video that the guide was to:

1. Help people build great courses (which is 99% of the content, took me 5 months to research and write, and is totally free)

2. Promote our software (1% of the content, and any course creator can still apply the guide, even if they don't use our software)

What are you talking about :')

Thank you!

We're aware of this and a revamp of our pricing is planned to have cheaper tiers or a freemium model in the future.

But yes, the product itself is more on the premium side because we're mainly targeting already established course and content creators who want a really advanced course platform for their students, not just an all-in-one tool like Kajabi or Podia that doesn't go in depth on the education side.

I really tried to create something useful without fluff because I hate it as well, glad you liked it and thank you Chris! :)

At SchoolMaker, we used our French audience at first to get PMF and a lot of feedback to improve the app.

And now that the app is translated in English, I'll start doing more SEO and content on social media, as well as creating useful resources like the guide to market it!

It's a completely free guide teaching content creators how to make courses. For some context, the company I made this for is a course creation plateform like Teachable or Podia, so we want to make the best resources for our customers and potential customers :)

Let me know if you have any feedback or questions about it! :)

Hey, I've been collecting a few tools on Notion, and just thought it was cool to share them :)

Thank you! :)

I understand your point of view, and I know that it may be risky to create long form videos like these in such a niche, but here are my 2 main reasons for doing it:

- The youtube channel Marketing Mania talks about these kind of issues, and it is the most popular business channel in France with 350k subs, and he also has the most successful french business podcast.

- It's also fun to me :)

As an example, for the idea I gave about Bill Gates & the Covid-19. The Bill Gates part would just be a hook to the more interesting theme: How do conspiracy theories spread.

And from that, I can talk about How a conspiracy theory is built by going deep into a few related topics:

- How the most effective conspiracy theories allegedly happened in front of all while most are oblivious to them, this could be called the "grandeur" effect

- How rumors spread:

1. People Spread Rumors When There’s Uncertainty

2. People Spread Rumors When They Feel Anxiety

3. People Spread Rumors When the Information is Important

4. People Spread Rumors When it Helps Their Self-Image and Social Status

-How confirmation bias leads people to not even accept opposite opinions (and the help of news & social media algorithms, which encourage this bias)

-How the "mille feuille argumentatif" (french term, the MFA is used by politicians, people who debate, and conspiracy theorists), which consists in flooding someone with data and information, which is an influence tactic.

- A sort of collective Persecutory delusion, because of the common thinking that "the rich always harm the poor for profit"

And I could still do more research about the topic, hope the kind of content I'm striving to make is more clear :)

For the moment I made 2 short videos which do not go as in depth, this is because I had no editing and filming experience beforehand, and I want to ship a few projects before making more longform videos. :)

This is what I thought, I think that striving to create content about current and well mediatized issues or more obscure but still helpful marketing examples may also help with having fresh content :)

I'm thinking of creating blog posts versions variants of the videos that would be more concise and actionnable, and Youtube would be more entertaining. What do you think ?

I see, I really see the value in the examples you just gave and the goal behind the channel is to go deeer into similar issues.

For the moment I think the content can still be improved, and I will try to do so incrementally over the next few months by doing longer form essays that go deeper into marketing issues.

Thank you for your message, I appreciate it a lot! :)

Yes, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d63Q0oID8S8&t