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Recent Episodes
#215 Creating a Rack Middleware 11-10-2019
Rack provides a minimal, modular, and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. In this episode, we create and insert our own Rack Middleware into a Rails 6 application.
#214 Plugging in AnyCable 11-3-2019
ActionCable can handle quite a bit of traffic, but it gets to a point where it can become a burden on the server. With AnyCable, we can not only handle more traffic, but it is also lighter on the resources.
#213 Website Accessibility 10-27-2019
In this episode, we add Bootstrap into a Rails 6 application and look at various aspects of website accessibility.
Popular Episodes
#167 Using Action Text in a Rails 5.2 Application 1-6-2019
With Rails 6.0 is around the corner, Action Text has been merged into the Rails repository. However, it can still be used on a Rails 5.2 application while we wait for its official release.
#52 Rails API - Throttling with Rack::Attack 10-30-2016
Save expensive calculation time using Rack::Attack, we will learn how to limit requests coming into our application. This gem not only limits requests, but can be used to blacklist or whitelist users as well.
#65 Searchkick and Elasticsearch 1-29-2017
Add full text searching using Searchkick and Elasticsearch. Here I will show the steps involved in adding this search to an existing application and a sample of autocomplete functionality.
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