With custom controllers and Global ID, we can lock down Active Storage files to provide a link which expires after a duration of time. At the beginning of the video, I tour the new Rails 7 template and configuration that will be used for episodes going forward.

With Rails 7 coming out soon, it's a good time to look at what it could take to upgrade our existing applications to esbuild. In this episode, we start with a Rails 6 application and begin the upgrade process by removing Webpacker and switching over to esbuild.

We look at recreating the popular Wordle game with StimulusJS. By exploring the mechanics of the game, we build our own approach.

We may come across a need to run shell commands and Ruby has some built in methods which appear safe, but can introduce major security risks.

In this episode, we look at some lesser known bundler commands including binstubs.