Coupdoeil - a Ruby gem for popovers

I have released a new Ruby (on Rails) gem: coupdoeil

This gem makes it easy to add powerful interactive popovers to your application, with good performances and modularity in mind. Be it a card to display details about a resource, interactive or not, or even a menu or a form.

Let me take a quick look at that

I’m a big fan of Wikipedia popups when you hover over a link to another article. I find this feature so useful to grasp the essence of a resource without having to navigate to another view and losing the current context (or creating a hidden todo by opening it in another tab!). To me, it’s the web equivalent of the bottom page note in a book. It takes just a short moment to look at it without losing focus on what you’re actually reading. With the glimpse of an eye, you get a bonus info to better apprehend what you are looking at.

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