Transcribing with Artificial Intelligence
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Transcribing with Artificial Intelligence

#395 Apr 2, 2023 free
In this episode, we look at creating an audio transcription service which allows files uploaded from Active Storage to be transcribed with Artificial Intelligence. However, there are a lot of considerations around the approach from both a performance and thread safety perspectives.

Deploying with MRSK
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Deploying with MRSK

#391 Mar 5, 2023 free
Kamal (MRSK) deploys web apps anywhere from bare metal to cloud VMs using Docker with zero downtime. In this episode, we will set up a Digital Ocean infrastructure with a Load Balancer, Virtual Machines, and a PostgreSQL database. We'll use Kamal (MRSK) to provision and deploy our Rails application to the Virtual Machines.

Demystifying the Asset Pipeline
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Demystifying the Asset Pipeline

#387 Feb 5, 2023 free
The asset pipeline can be confusing. So, in this episode, we explore Sprockets and the movement towards Propshaft, a new Rails library for managing assets. We'll also have a look at some nuances with jsbundling and how to overcome them.

Custom Turbo Stream Actions
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Custom Turbo Stream Actions

#382 Jan 1, 2023 free
With the release of Turbo 7.2, we gained the ability to create custom actions in Turbo. This allows us to trigger functions on the client side that would have been difficult or cumbersome to do in the past. In this episode, we look at setting up custom actions and how to use them.

Stimulus Outlets API
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Stimulus Outlets API

#378 Dec 4, 2022 free
Outlets let you reference Stimulus controller instances and their controller element from within another Stimulus Controller by using CSS selectors. In this episode, we look at a simple example and then refactoring some older code where we used some workarounds to communicate with other stimulus controllers.