In this episode, we look at the encoding and some problems that an older Ruby on Rails application may face when it comes to storing emojis and how to fix them.

Resque is a Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later.

Puma-dev combined with Remote Pry is a strong combo for debugging and ease of development.

The hstore data type is very useful in many cases, such as semi-structured data or rows with many attributes.

Markdown is a great, but unfortunately ActionText doesn't support it. In this episode, we'll look at implementing a simple markdown parser with Stimulus.