Drifting Ruby

Partial Inserts

#360 Jul 31, 2022 pro

Parsing through the Ruby on Rails CHANGELOG can reveal some interesting features and changes in the framework. In this episode, we look at one of those changes around inserting records into our database.

rails model activerecord

Liquid Templates

#358 Jul 17, 2022 pro

Using Stimulus and Liquid, we can create real time previews of the Liquid Template Renderer. Liquid provides a markup language that is a safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.

rails view stimulusjs

Current Attributes

#357 Jul 10, 2022 pro

Abstract super class that provides a thread-isolated attributes singleton, which resets automatically before and after each request. This allows you to keep all the per-request attributes easily available to the whole system.

rails model

Easy Infrastructure

#355 Jun 26, 2022 pro

Continuing on from the previous episode, we look at creating a Docker Swarm cluster and using Traefik to load balance and route requests to various applications. Using this and CloudFlare proxies, we're able to create and deploy hobby applications in minutes.

rails infrastructure deployment docker

Easy Deployments

#354 Jun 19, 2022 pro

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.

rails deployment docker

Multiple Databases

#353 Jun 12, 2022 pro

As an application grows in popularity and usage you'll need to scale the application to support your new users and their data. One way in which your application may need to scale is on the database level. In this episode, we look at reading from a replica database while writing to a primary database. We also look at structuring our application top support multiple databases; each containing their own schema.

rails database infrastructure

PDFs with Prawn

#351 May 29, 2022 pro

Prawn is a pure Ruby PDF generation library that provides a lot of great functionality while trying to remain simple and reasonably performant. In this episode, we look at the styling our code and generating PDFs.

rails pdf poro

Limiting Text Input

#350 May 22, 2022 pro

User experience is important and there are little things that we can do to help improve this experience. By giving real time feedback on text inputs to approaching limits on fields, the user can modify and update their text accordingly before they submit the form. In this episode, we look at database level, model validations and limiting text input on the client side.

rails validations database stimulusjs

Secure User Passwords

#349 May 15, 2022 pro

We have a look at integrating the HaveIBeenPwned service with Devise so that our users will some awareness of their password being potentially compromised.

rails security authentication

Discussing Race Conditions

#348 May 8, 2022 pro

In this episode, we have a look at some causes of race conditions and go about some ways to troubleshoot and mitigate them.

rails model database background processing

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