rails/tailwindcss-rails

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1588 stars · 190 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Ruby gem that integrates the Tailwind CSS utility-first framework into Rails applications, bundling the standalone tailwindcss executable and providing Rails tasks for building and watching styles. It supports Rails 7+ installation generators, live rebuilds, production asset precompilation, and Tailwind v4 upgrades.

Use cases

• add tailwind css to a rails app
• build tailwind styles in rails asset pipeline
• watch and rebuild css during rails development
• precompile tailwind css for production in rails
• upgrade rails app from tailwind v3 to v4
• use tailwind with rails engines

When to choose

• you're building a Rails 7+ app and want Tailwind CSS without a Node toolchain
• you want an officially maintained Rails integration with install generators and rake tasks
• you need live CSS rebuilding during development and simple production precompilation

When to avoid

• you're not using Ruby on Rails
• you need heavy customization via PostCSS plugins or a full Node-based build pipeline
• you use a different CSS framework or prefer plain CSS/Sass

Facets

library · maturity active

css-framework build-tool cli web-development frontend developer-tools ruby cross-platform tailwindcss rails gem asset-pipeline ruby-on-rails nodejs

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