Xray
A development tool that reveals the Rails views, partials, and templates behind your UI with an overlay.
What is Xray?
Xray-rails is a Ruby gem that provides a visual development tool for Rails applications. It overlays your UI with information about which Rails views, partials, and JavaScript templates rendered each component, allowing developers to quickly understand the structure of their UI and navigate to source files.
Rails developers working on applications with complex view hierarchies who need to quickly understand which templates and partials are rendering specific UI elements during development.
Developers choose Xray-rails because it provides immediate visual feedback about UI composition directly in the browser, eliminating the need to trace through controller actions and view files manually to understand what's rendering each part of the interface.
Overview
☠️ A development tool that reveals your UI's bones
Use Cases
Best For
- Debugging complex view hierarchies in Rails applications
- Understanding which partials render specific UI components
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