Benchmarking and Refactoring the content_for View Helper
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Benchmarking and Refactoring the content_for View Helper

#90 Jul 23, 2017 free
In a recent blog post, we looked into the content_for view helper to render breadcrumbs. Once we got the feature working, it's time to refactor the feature to lower technical debt.

Creating Custom Ruby on Rails Generators
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Creating Custom Ruby on Rails Generators

#89 Jul 16, 2017 free
Simplify your workflow by using custom generators to streamline the creation of files and templates that you use often.

Virtual Columns with JSON Data Types
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Virtual Columns with JSON Data Types

#88 Jul 9, 2017 free
Continuing from Episode #87, we take a deeper dive into virtual columns in Rails 5.1 and use them to parse JSON Data Types with adding indexes to the virtual column.

Virtual Columns in MySQL
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Virtual Columns in MySQL

#87 Jul 2, 2017 free
In Ruby on Rails 5.1.0, generated virtual column support was added for MySQL and MariaDB. Using generated and stored columns can leverage heavy calculations to the SQL side.

Plotting Points on a Map from Scratch
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Plotting Points on a Map from Scratch

#86 Jun 25, 2017 free
Using the Google Maps Javascript API, learn how to plot markers onto a map. Load markers and info windows through AJAX calls to your Rails JSON API.