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Embedding Stripe Checkout

#422 Oct 1, 2023 free

Stripe Checkout is one of my favorite ways to handle payments in Ruby on Rails applications. Stripe Checkouts will soon have an option to embed the Checkout into your web application. In this episode, we'll look at implementing this feature with a StimulusJS controller.

rails stripe stimulusjs hotwire

PDF Reader

#413 Aug 6, 2023 free

When previewing PDF files that were uploaded through Active Storage, we can only get a simple image of the first page. In this episode, we'll look at taking the uploaded PDFs and interacting with them.

rails uploads hotwire stimulusjs

Intervals and Timeouts

#412 Jul 30, 2023 pro

In this episode, we create two different stimulus controllers for handling refresh intervals and timeouts. Using Turbo, with these stimulus controllers, we are able to create a simple solution refreshes on an interval or timeout.

rails hotwire turbo

Broadcasting Progress from Background Jobs

#408 Jul 2, 2023 free

In a previous episode, we had created a custom ActionCable channel to assist in broadcasting updates from a background job. With the introduction of Turbo, we can simplify this process as we look at a few different approaches in displaying a progress bar with real time updates from background jobs.

rails hotwire background processing

TailwindUI Calendar

#383 Jan 8, 2023 pro

The TailwindUI library provides static styled HTML examples, but this can be difficult to translate into a Rails application. In this episode, we take a look at one of the calendar examples and make it interactive with displaying days that have events as well as returning events on selected days.

rails tailwind turbo stimulusjs hotwire

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.

rails turbo javascript hotwire

Saving Attributes with Hotwire

#373 Oct 30, 2022 pro

With Hotwire, we can create form where each input field is saved once a user has changed its value. We look at some of the common issues that you could run into when using Hotwire and some ways to mitigate those problems.

rails hotwire javascript turbo form

Mapbox Geolocation

#372 Oct 23, 2022 pro

Using Hotwire and the Mapbox API, we can track the location of a user and playback their recorded GPS coordinates.

rails hotwire javascript maps

Hotwire Introduction

#369 Oct 2, 2022 free

Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. With Rails 7, we get Hotwire added in by default. In this episode, we look at some of the features with Hotwire and how to use them.

rails hotwire javascript turbo stimulusjs

Booking System Live Updates

#366 Sep 11, 2022 pro

Continuing on from Episode 364, we look at a few different approaches to getting live updates on Full Calendar. We look at a few attempts which seems to work, but introduce unfavorable bugs and finally a workaround to get things working nicely.

rails hotwire calendar

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