I often create Rails projects and while some of these applications are fairly simple, deployment to a production environment still requires a lot of infrastructure setup. In this episode, we take a look at creating a Rails project template and being able to deploy it to a production environment within minutes.

We look into the way I streamline the management of my deployments, SSH and status of applications. This makes it easier to switch between projects without having to refer to notes of how each application should deploy.

In this episode, we look at the encoding and some problems that an older Ruby on Rails application may face when it comes to storing emojis and how to fix them.

We can create a small python service that uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to detect if a message is spam or not. Using this service, we can tie it into our Rails application so that any comment created will be evaluated for being spam or not. We explore a few different routes on handling any messages flagged as spam.

Dot files are important for customizing our development experience and in this episode, we'll have a look at the .zshrc, .gemrc, .railsrc, and .irbrc dot files and how we can customize them to make our development life easier.