Drifting Ruby

Optical Character Recognition

#405 Jun 11, 2023 pro

Make your Active Storage uploads searchable with Optical Character Recognition (OCR). In this episode, we'll look at uploading documents with Active Storage and then using a gem to perform the optical character recognition on the uploaded files.

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Active Storage Validators

#399 Apr 30, 2023 pro

Validation of files that are uploaded can provide a better user experience as it sets the expectations of what kinds of files, their sizes and if they're even required. In this episode, we'll look at creating different types of validators for Active Storage.

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Text to Image with Machine Learning

#398 Apr 23, 2023 pro

In this episode, we take a new approach to the python service that our Rails background jobs will be calling. This is a more stable and thread safe approach and more simple to implement. We'll look at creating a Text to Image generation service that our Rails application will interact with.

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Zipping Files

#385 Jan 22, 2023 pro

In this episode, we have a look at three different methods of zipping Active Storage files and sending the zipped file to the end user. Each approach has its own benefits and the best approach will depend on your use case.

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Active Storage Variants

#376 Nov 20, 2022 pro

In this episode, we look at cleaning up our Active Storage variants and also look at several different use cases to manipulate the images with resizes, watermarks, format and quality.

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File Uploads and Cloud Storage

#356 Jul 3, 2022 free

AWS S3 has been a reliable service over the years and for a long time it was the only option. However, in the past few years, there has been more cloud storage options that have popped up with compatible S3 APIs. These services can sometimes offer better pricing and speeds.

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Securing Downloads with Global ID

#315 Sep 19, 2021 pro

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.

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Purge Orphaned Active Storage Records

#281 Jan 31, 2021 pro

Over time, orphaned records can build up within Active Storage. In this episode, we look at a few approaches to clean up these orphaned records.

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Direct Upload Instantly

#279 Jan 17, 2021 pro

Learn how to select files and trigger them to upload to Active Storage instantly.

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StimulusJS, Active Storage and DropzoneJS

#263 Oct 11, 2020 pro

DropzoneJS is an open source library that provides drag’n’drop file uploads with image previews. It's lightweight, highly customizable and doesn't have any dependencies.

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