Sending out emails is an important for of communication in our Rails applications. In this episode, we look at creating a local smtp relay with a web frontend to view the emails sent from our Rails application.

In this episode, we add Bootstrap into a Rails 6 application and look at various aspects of website accessibility.

Even fast websites can seem slow if it takes a while for the content to get to them. This can be partially solved with a Content Delivery Network (CDN). However, most resources usually only shows how to set up static assets and not uploaded content. Learn how to use Amazon CloudFront to cache and serve uploaded content from Active Storage.

Using feature flags based on Redis, we can enable and disable access to certain areas of our application. In this episode, learn how to set up this functionality.

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.