A blog about Laravel & Rails, written by Dwight Watson.
Caching variants with ActiveStorage
ActiveStorage is new in Rails 5.2 and it provides an integrated way to handle file uploads. It can store files on a cloud provider of your…
Laravel recently introduced a number of query builder helpers for writing where clauses that act upon dates. There's a whole host of them…
Accessing Rails routes helpers from anywhere in your app
Sometimes it makes sense that you'll want to generate links back to your app from components of your app that don't have access to Rails…
Set a global reply-to email address in Laravel
Simple post today, but turns out Laravel has a simple feature that lets you configure the reply-to email address at a high level. Take a…
.gitignore for Laravel Mix build artifacts
Many Laravel developers will build their front-end assets locally before deploying a new release and the framework ships out-of-the-box to…
Laravel auth routes without registration
Laravel's authentication scaffold is a great way to get your app off the ground quickly - both because of the time it saves you from the get…
Autologin with Laravel 5.6
Automatically logging in your users when they come back to your app is a great way to keep them engaged. If you can prevent distracting them…
Using multiple actions on a single element with Stimulus
Sometimes it makes sense to want to fire an event from an element off to multiple controllers (if the element is a child of both controller…
Hooking up a CDN with Laravel cloud storage (Flysystem)
I've recently finished converting all our legacy S3 storage code into leveraging Laravel's out-of-the-box Flysystem integration. I was able…
Environment variables in assets with Heroku Pipelines
I’ve been using Heroku Pipelines for a bit on a new project which has been great at helping us take code from staging and push it to…