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Hotwire Native for Rails Developers
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Hotwire Native for Rails Developers

by Joe Masilotti
August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
6h 16m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Chapter 2Control Your Apps with Rails

The biggest benefit of using Hotwire Native to build mobile apps is that you are rendering content directly from the Rails server. Make a change to your Rails code, and boom—the iOS and Android apps get that update automatically. But it can be hard to appreciate that magic until you see it for yourself.

This chapter covers different techniques and approaches to drive content and behavior in the apps directly from the server. Everything in this chapter will be Ruby on Rails code.

Specifically, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  1. Dynamically set a native title via HTML.
  2. Hide the navigation bar with conditional Ruby.
  3. Hide the navigation bar with CSS.
  4. Add back in missing elements.
  5. Keep users signed in between ...
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