Digital Ocean App Platform
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Digital Ocean App Platform

#434 Dec 24, 2023 pro
Fly, AWS App Runner, Render and Heroku are great choices for Platform as a Service solutions, but there's Digital Ocean's App Platform. In this episode we'll look at deploying a Rails 7.1 application to this Digital Ocean PaaS.

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.

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.

Previous/Next Record
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Previous/Next Record

#449 Mar 31, 2024 pro
In this episode, we'll explore the process of creating Previous and Next links for a record, but then refactor it to be more maintainable.

Tags from Scratch
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Tags from Scratch

#452 Apr 14, 2024 pro
In this episode, we create a tagging system for models that is highly reusable. We'll explore creating the tagging system, filtering on tags and persisting the tags in an unobtrusive way.