In this episode, we take a look at some tips and tricks around the database schema and model scopes.

Seeding your database is often an overlooked part of development and it has a lot of benefits that can help uncover issues within your application. However, maintaining the seeds.rb can be difficult and things can get out of hand quickly. In this episode, learn how to manage and maintain the seeds file.

In this episode, we look at database migrations and different ways to generate the schema.

User experience is important and there are little things that we can do to help improve this experience. By giving real time feedback on text inputs to approaching limits on fields, the user can modify and update their text accordingly before they submit the form. In this episode, we look at database level, model validations and limiting text input on the client side.

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