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Recover Form Data

#571 Jul 12, 2026 pro

In this episode, we look at creating a reusable Stimulus Controller that will allow us to recover a filled out form from out local storage.

rails stimulusjs form javascript

Claude Skills

#570 Jul 5, 2026 free

In this episode, we look at creating Claude slash commands. These can be useful when dealing with a complicated task or trying to extract certain information from the application.

rails ai

Schedule Emails

#569 Jun 28, 2026 pro

In this episode, we look at how we can schedule an email blast to be received at a certain time in the user's time zone.

rails background processing

Analyze Active Storage

#568 Jun 21, 2026 pro

In this episode, we look at filling in form data based on the contents of a PDF that is uploaded through Active Storage. We will implement a mechanism to fill out the form data without having to first persist the record.

rails active storage stimulusjs ai

Polling for New Records - Advanced

#567 Jun 14, 2026 pro

Continuing from the previous episode, we look at evolving the polling stimulus controller to handle pausing when the user navigates to a different tab, handle network errors, properly construct the URL and handle inserting new records differently. These small changes creates a much stronger polling mechanism.

rails stimulusjs polling

Polling for New Records

#566 Jun 7, 2026 free

Websockets are great, but they are not always the right approach. In this episode, we will look at implementing a long polling for new records.

rails polling stimulusjs

Custom Turbo Stream Action Animation

#565 May 31, 2026 pro

In this episode, we'll look at improving our UX by adding a custom Turbo Stream action to give some animation to deleted records.

rails turbo hotwire javascript

.gitignore globally

#564 May 24, 2026 pro

In this episode, we look at setting up a global .gitignore file that would apply to all projects.

git

Broadcasting Shell Output

#563 May 17, 2026 pro

In this episode, we will have a look at a shell command that runs in a background job, but broadcast its output in real time to the browser.

rails background processing turbo

Tone Check

#562 May 10, 2026 pro

In this episode, we use a small AI model to check the tone of a message in real time on the client's browser. There's no need to send messages back to the server or to an API because it's all done on the client's browser with the Web GPU. It is small enough to work on mobile devices and desktop computers.