Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. With Rails 7, we get Hotwire added in by default. In this episode, we look at some of the features with Hotwire and how to use them.

Sometimes we need to pull down our staging database that is hosted in the cloud. This can be a tedious task as there could be many blockers that add complications in pulling down this data.

In this episode, we look at adding Tailwind CSS to our Rails 7 application as well as applying a component library on top to add simplicity and consistency to our views.

Continuing on from Episode 364, we look at a few different approaches to getting live updates on Full Calendar. We look at a few attempts which seems to work, but introduce unfavorable bugs and finally a workaround to get things working nicely.

When rake tasks need to be part of a deployment, you could find yourself in a situation where the rake task was forgotten about or have to go through the process of shelling into the environment to execute the tasks. In this episode, we look at addressing these issues by creating a way to have rake tasks execute automatically.