Changelog

The new update of the pay gem was breaking our current Stripe integration setup. Therefore I added persistancy to the gem for ti to stay at 7.0 until we update the code.

Creating a custom theme with daisyUI CDN was a bit of a nightmare, now that they updated their CDN integration it's super easy to create your own theme on your next Lightning Rails project!

Easily add AI to your Lightning Rails app and connect to 4 different AI models with the same code, just change the AI APi. All thanks to the RubyLLM gem ❤️

Lightning Rails new branding is now by default in the source repo. The boilerplate now comes with a dark mode controller available by default in the navbar.

Launching an app with a nice front-end is not only html and css. So I added a section where I share all the free resources I use to build my own apps (Free illustrations, logo/assets generators, cheasheets etc...). Enjoy!

We have updated our branding to match our core values of speed, reliability, and developer-first simplicity.

We've added a new Security section to our documentation! 🚀 This section will feature practical guides based on real-world experience to help you better protect your Rails app. The first guide covers Rack attack limits, showing you how to prevent bots from overwhelming your app with automated requests by enforcing IP-based rate limiting. Stay tuned for more security insights and best practices! 🔒✨

This update includes a step-by-step guide to using the OpenAI API, along with instructions on seamlessly switching to DeepSeek while keeping the same OpenAI wrapper—big thanks to the DeepSeek developers for this brilliant approach! 🙏 Additionally, we've added a master prompt for your first API call, straight from the director of OpenAI himself.

Thanks to our top contributor @Conor McDonald , we now have a setup script so we can start our Rails apps in 1 min and 3 simple steps: gh repo clone LightningRails/lightning-rails mysupercoolapp -> bash setup.sh -> Enjoy your app! On top of saving time for the setup and creating the private repo for you, it also pre-fills your legal pages with your project info and setup the config files with the proper domains.

I have added a new guide in the docs of Lightning Rails. You can now choose to ditch Postmark for your Emails along with its annoying transactional-emails-only restriction and install Resend instead. Resend allows you to also send marketing emails so good if you have a Newsletter for instance.

Creating several LightningRails apps in a row could create conflicts between Database files. Now it is automatically updates on setup.

I have done extensive testing to make sure nothing breaks but please don't hesitate to report if you stumble upon any compatibility issues. You all have access to the repo so you can create an issue or contact me directly on Slack.

If you are looking to test your idea with a landing page but don't want to pay hosting for it, you can use Lightning Landing and publish it directly on Github pages.

Lightning Rails is now on ruby version 3.3.5 from 3.3.1 previously

If you are building an app where the target is developers, you must add this feature to your project, and save your users the password headache by letting them sign up with one click. In just 5mins you can set up GitHub authentication in your next Rails project thanks to Lightning Rails.