CSS and JS in Rails Engines
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CSS and JS in Rails Engines

#442 Feb 11, 2024 pro
Setting up a Rails Engine with the TailwindCSS and Hotwire via Importmaps can be rather difficult. There's a lot of undocumented steps to take and it can be overwhelming to approach these problems. In this episode, we look at a step by step approach to both adding TailwindCSS and Turbo & Stimulus into a Rails Engine.

Campfire Deploy with Kamal
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Campfire Deploy with Kamal

#440 Jan 28, 2024 pro
In this episode, we look at setting up our Campfire instance to be deployable with Kamal instead of the Once CLI. This has a few benefits over the standard deployment mechanism if you are going to be tweaking and making your own changes to the Campfire code. We'll also look at taking in the incoming changes from Once to rebase into our Kamal setup.

Solid Queue
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Solid Queue

#438 Jan 21, 2024 pro
Solid Queue is a DB-based queuing backend for Active Job, designed with simplicity and performance in mind. In this episode, we'll look at exploring Solid Queue and and option for a graphical interface to view the jobs.

Action Auth
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Action Auth

#437 Jan 14, 2024 pro
With Rails 7.1 came a bunch of new features around token generation and with this release, I've been working on a new authentication solution that provides the basic requirements of authentication out of the box, but also has advanced features like Passkeys that are easy to implement and use.

Counter Culture
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Counter Culture

#435 Dec 31, 2023 pro
The provided ActiveRecord counter caching mechanism provides some great basic functionality, but quickly becomes insufficient if you need more complex totaling or summing of records. In this episode, we'll look at implementing the counter_culture gem to gain extra functionality.