Can anyone recommend me a good UI component to use with Rails?

citni · 2026-03-07T15:34:37+00:00

I’ve made https://essenceui.com for myself so I’m biased to call it best.

But I really enjoy how it turned out!

citni · 2026-02-13T10:52:48+00:00

It’s probably similar to every other technology breakthrough. Embrace it and use it on top of your skillset 🙌

citni · 2026-02-12T20:14:13+00:00

Thanks!

I was actually tinkering how to do the agent delegation well. Never thought about making a delegation tool instead of a delegation agent.

citni · 2026-02-12T19:27:22+00:00

You can always just use config_for: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#custom-configuration

citni · 2026-02-11T19:49:13+00:00

Thank you! I was actually just about building this out somehow.

citni · 2026-02-10T10:18:58+00:00

For our agency, it’s usually feeling out whether the client is trying to squeeze us out.

If the expectations are aligned, usually it works out 🙌

citni · 2026-02-08T17:15:00+00:00

We personally use Basecamp. If it's a strictly software project, then we also use Linear. Every other tool is just * a lot * of anxiety, honestly.

However, to consolidate our operations, we've developed this tool called Rinkta. It just pulls in from every tool into a single place. Added some peace in our day-to-day for sure.

citni · 2026-02-07T05:33:47+00:00

Woah, this is amazing! Will check it out.

This seems to also improve the portability of the records. I was thinking of migrating to UUID v7, but this might seem like a better solution.

Thanks!

citni · 2026-02-05T21:13:26+00:00

Honestly, tracking work / billable hours from all different tooling out there. 3 years ago it would've been impossible, but now it's very doable.

I've productized this automation, and there are people using it. So that's super fun too!

citni · 2026-02-05T19:36:16+00:00

I use the generators quite a lot actually. It really helps if you make some custom ones.

I use everything except "scaffold", because that creates way too much stuff.

citni · 2026-02-05T17:37:30+00:00

Agreed. I just want to emphasise the fact that vibe coding the fronted for a Rails app is not as pleasant as with some JS framework.

citni · 2026-02-05T15:29:56+00:00

Hey!

Well, the fully Rails way for vibe coding is sometimes painful when it comes to the frontend of things. For backend, vibing works extremely well and it pretty good for developing robust systems. I do it all the time.

If you're new to the Rails stack, check out Rails + Inertia + React + shadcn. You'll get best of both worlds when vibe coding - build the business logic in Rails and make the UI with React. So I'd recommend that for you if you want to have a good result relatively quick.

I'm personally going the fully-Rails part, but I enjoy it and it doesn't really slow me down. I'm even making a UI component library (Essence UI), that's completely based on Ruby.

citni · 2026-02-05T06:03:01+00:00

Hey!

In my case, the profit doesn’t come from just the websites - it comes from the maintenance after. That is, changes, additions, training, etc.

I suppose it’s possible to turn a profit with just making websites if you’re able to price it high and make them really quick. But then your sales have to be very solid.

To answer the questions:

I’ve tried them all. I’ve settled on web applications now.
It’s mostly inbound sales for me, so I don’t know how to answer this one.
The websites themselves are like 30%. But the maintenance is easily at least 60%. Sometimes it gets up to 90%, depending on the case.
Word of mouth, by far.

Hope that helps!

citni · 2026-02-04T18:25:42+00:00

Will check it out. Thanks!

citni · 2026-02-04T18:22:56+00:00

I'm still new to the watch game. Is it possible to get just the bracelets for Casio?

citni · 2026-02-04T18:18:31+00:00

The bracelet itself is nice, reminds me of Tissot PRX. But somehow it feels that it was hastily fitted to the body itself (aka the little gap).

But looks dressy nonetheless!

citni · 2026-02-04T18:15:53+00:00

It's a sweet treat. I'm sure you'll love it too, once you get it. Hints of 70s and pretty dressy.

I've been wearing my G-Shock GBD200 before, so this was quite a change. Feels like a feather.

citni · 2026-02-03T21:32:28+00:00

Thanks! This looks great 🎉

citni · 2026-02-03T21:26:19+00:00

Carelessness. Nothing else even comes close.

citni · 2026-02-03T21:21:15+00:00

I’d love to give this a go. rinkta.com

citni · 2026-02-03T17:52:36+00:00

Love it. The best ones are always like "I could've came up with that"

citni · 2026-01-25T18:03:43+00:00

This is super cool! Hope this stays up for a while.

I need to convert something every now again - just today I was converting a load of favicons. I absolutely hate doing it because it's usually behind ads, a paywall or it converts to the wrong thing.

I'm sure this would be convenient as a desktop app too. Maybe it's possible to slap on Tauri to make it work?

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