Merit adds reputation behavior to Rails apps in the form of Badges, Points, and Rankings.

We look at consistency in a Rails API structure and handling errors.

Amazon's newest hosting service, App Runner, makes it fairly easy to deploy web services. In this episode, we take a look at some of the issues with App Runner as well as how we can deploy a Docker container image to the service. We also dive into building Docker images from an Apple M1 computer and pushing to Elastic Container Registry.

The past tutorials look at creating subscriptions with Stripe, but in this episode, we look at using Stripe for a cart-like checkout system where nonrecurring orders can be placed.

Creating attachments with Action Text can be difficult, but in this episode, we look at how we can create embedded attachments into Trix without needing a persisting the data on a separate model on our database.