CafeCar guide
The reference for working with CafeCar, page by page. Each page covers one layer —
the cafe_car macro, the override system, the policy, and the pieces around them —
with the code you’d actually write.
- Controllers
- Views and the override system
- Policies — the source of truth
- Presenters — how values render
- Forms
- Filtering, sorting, search
- Navigation and the dashboard
- Components, CSS, theming
- Locales — all UI copy lives here
- Turbo Streams and live sync
Reading the source directly? It lives at
skills/cafe_car/references/ —
the same files an agent skill and GitMCP read. There is one copy.