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Solid Queue

#438 Jan 21, 2024 pro

Solid Queue is a DB-based queuing backend for Active Job, designed with simplicity and performance in mind. In this episode, we'll look at exploring Solid Queue and and option for a graphical interface to view the jobs.

rails background processing activejob

Action Auth

#437 Jan 14, 2024 pro

With Rails 7.1 came a bunch of new features around token generation and with this release, I've been working on a new authentication solution that provides the basic requirements of authentication out of the box, but also has advanced features like Passkeys that are easy to implement and use.

rails 7.1 authentication

Counter Culture

#435 Dec 31, 2023 pro

The provided ActiveRecord counter caching mechanism provides some great basic functionality, but quickly becomes insufficient if you need more complex totaling or summing of records. In this episode, we'll look at implementing the counter_culture gem to gain extra functionality.

rails model

Digital Ocean App Platform

#434 Dec 24, 2023 pro

Fly, AWS App Runner, Render and Heroku are great choices for Platform as a Service solutions, but there's Digital Ocean's App Platform. In this episode we'll look at deploying a Rails 7.1 application to this Digital Ocean PaaS.

rails deployment

Custom Dashboard - Part 2

#433 Dec 17, 2023 pro

In this episode, we continue on from the previous episode where we finish up the dashboard and configure the views with Turbo Frame Tags.

rails hotwire stimulusjs turbo

Custom Dashboard - Part 1

#432 Dec 10, 2023 pro

In this episode, we'll look at creating the initial management for a customizable dashboard. Users can add and arrange widgets to their dashboard.

rails hotwire stimulusjs

Rails Organization

#430 Nov 26, 2023 pro

In this episode, we look at refactoring a model with a few different approaches; modules, classes and concerns. We'll explore each implementation and when I'd use one over the other.

rails organization model

Working with YAML

#429 Nov 19, 2023 pro

In this episode, we look at a few different ways that we can interact with YAML files in our Ruby on Rails application; using them for loading configurations and also seeding data.

rails data

Form Input UX

#428 Nov 12, 2023 pro

In this episode, we'll focus on the user experience (UX) of form inputs by adding formatting of the text as the user inputs the data.

rails form ux stimulusjs

readonly?

#426 Oct 29, 2023 pro

In this episode, we look at making records read-only and also creating an override functionality where we can force the record to save. We'll also look at error handling when a record update is made to a read-only record.