🏝 Living in Paraside

How an enum with associated values can conform to the Identifiable protocol

Here I'll show you how you can easily make an enum conform to the Identifiable protocol and how you can use this in your SwiftUI views. In my app No Meat Today, I show the Paywall when the user tries to change some settings limited to premium users (or Naomists,

Localizing your App Store marketing content with Localazy and Fastlane

I briefly talked about my setup in https://paraside.in/translating-your-ios-app-with-localazy/, but I think it deserves its own article given how annyoing dealing with this is (to me, at least). With a combination of fastlane.tools and localazy.com, you can simplify your life a lot already. Let's see how

swift

Translating your iOS app with Localazy

A couple of people have asked me to translate No Meat Today in their language, but the last time I tried to tackle that, none of the solutions I found were satisfying or in my price range. I just found Localazy and I'm sold. And not just because there’s

Capybara: 2 ways to click links in emails

If you want to write system tests you'll probably want to cover a use-case involving an email sent to a user (for instance, a sign up confirmation link). There are at least 2 ways to do that: with nokogiri if you want to keep things leanwith capybara-email if you appreciate

Replacing Selenium with Cuprite for Rails system tests

In the world of tests, system tests are as close to real users as it gets: you control a browser and make it use your app as you expect humans to. To do so, you need two things: a browser : you will see it (safari, chrome…) run on its own

Auto-linking URLs with Trix Editor and StimulusJS

The https://trix-editor.org is fantastic, but there's one simple thing I expected to be built-in that isn't: copy/pasting a URL should create a link automatically instead of inserting the link as plain text. Thinking of it, it's not so surprising because there are many things one could want

Multiple YAML defaults in Rails fixtures

You know that you can use YAML defaults in your fixtures to extract common attributes values and make your fixtures more readable. DEFAULTS: &DEFAULTS created_on: <%= 3.weeks.ago.to_s(:db) %> first: name: Smurf <<: *DEFAULTS second: name: Fraggle <<: *DEFAULTS What if you

Emoji picker controller with StimulusJS and Emoji Button

I needed an emoji picker for my latest Rails app and found Emoji Button by @joeattardi that he introduced here. Since he already did the heavy-lifting required to provide a vanilla JavaScript emoji picker component, I just needed to add it to my app and create a Stimulus controller. And

rails

Rails+TailwindCSS: adding "required" to form labels (and how to find the solution by yourself)

This post addresses a simple need: adding a "required" text next to any form field label that is… required.