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Recent Episodes
#129 Preparing for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 4-15-2018
In this episode, we look adding in some of the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation into our Ruby on Rails application. Disclaimer: this episode is not legal advice and you should consult a lawyer.
#128 Blockchain in Ruby on Rails 4-8-2018
In this episode, we look into creating a blockchain as well as proof of work for car maintenance tracker application. Blockchain is used to establish a trust that records have not been tampered with.
#127 ActiveRecord Tricks 4-1-2018
In this episode, we look at what would seemingly be simple queries, but are more complex once you start looking into them. Using built in ActiveRecord functions, we can make the queries readable and easy to work with.
Popular Episodes
#77 Cropping Images with JCrop 4-23-2017
Extend your image upload functionality with JCrop. Learn to redirect the user to a crop page once they have uploaded their image and save versions of the cropped images.
#27 WYSIWYG Editor with Summernote 5-2-2016
Integrate Summernote WYSIWYG Editor into your application. Learn how to use AJAX callbacks to filestore your images instead of database Base64.
#58 Mail Previews and Templates 12-11-2016
Using ActionMailer::Preview preview email samples without sending them. Using Zurb's Foundation for Emails, learn how to use email templates with the Ink framework.
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