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HotTable

This application was built during the Rails Hackathon 2022. A remote hackathon for Rails developers. We had 48 hours to build a Ruby on Rails application with the theme: Hotwire powered Rails apps.

Team

On the Rails Hackathon site: https://railshackathon.com/teams/18

Description

This is an (minimal) Airtable clone. We left out any of the schema-building functionality and focused squarely on the data management functionality. Moreover, we pushed hard on using semantic HTML, so the table is an actual <table>. Within the space of data management, there are a surprising number of features however:

  • Manage which fields are displayed
  • Sort by any field in either direction (with multi-column sorting supported as well)
  • Filter by any complex query you can imagine (nested ANDs and ORs supported with a full range of predicates)
  • Group by any field (sorting in either direction, collapsing or expanding the grouped rows)
  • Select rows (with clear visual indication of selected rows)
  • Select all rows in the dataset (with clear visual indication of how many records are selected)
  • Bulk export selected rows (with whatever display/sort/filter conditions are set on the view)
  • Full pagination functionality (select number of items displayed per page, jump to a specific page, see the details of the pagination window)
  • Column summaries (see information about the dataset for particular columns, with calculations based on the data-type of the column)
  • X- and Y-axis scrollable table on overflow, with fixed headers, footers, and primary columns
  • Quick sort, group, hide options for each column in a column header dropdown
  • Inline editing of all table cells
  • CRUD of views, saving your configuration of a particular combination of fields, sorts, filters, grouping, and pagination

Built with

  • Ransack drives the filtering and sorting. We extended Ransack to drive the fields and grouping.
  • Pagy drives the pagination. We applied Tailwind styling to the generated HTML.
  • Stimulus drives the "details set" (only one <details> element open at a time), automatic form submission of pagination items, building complex sorts/filters, etc.
  • Turbo Drive allows all of the "searching" to run without a mess of updating dozens of parts of the page on any change.
  • Turbo Streams drive the column calculations and inline editing to allow for atomic updates of individual table cells.
  • TurboPower adds a bunch of additional Turbo Stream actions and drives key parts of the inline editing flow.
  • Phlex replaces ActionView for the HTML rendering, allowing us to build layouts, pages, and components all in pure Ruby.
  • TailwindCSS for styling

Demo

A demo application is running at http://hottable-rails-hackathon.herokuapp.com

Entry

Our entry on the Rails Hackathon site: https://railshackathon.com/entries/6

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