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Kamal in GitHub Actions

#425 Oct 22, 2023 pro

Kamal is a great utility for deploying your application to a server. It can handle many different kinds of use cases. However, there is some disconnect on how to use it within a CI/CD pipeline. In this episode, we'll look at deploying a Rails 7.1 application with SQLite to a virtual machine using Kamal within GitHub Actions.

rails 7.1 deploy deployment ci/cd

Solid Cache

#424 Oct 15, 2023 pro

Solid Cache is a database-backed Active Support cache store implementation. Using SQL databases backed by SSDs we can have caches that are much larger and cheaper than traditional memory only Redis or Memcached backed caches. In this episode, we'll explore adding Solid Cache into our application and some things to be aware of.

rails 7.1 cache caching

Unsaved Changes

#423 Oct 8, 2023 pro

In this episode, we'll look at creating a stimulus controller that will alert the user if there are unsaved changes on a form before they navigate away from the page or reload the site.

rails stimulusjs form

Parent Relationships and Turbo Frames

#421 Sep 24, 2023 pro

Without writing any javascript, we create a highly interactive parent navigation. We will use Turbo Frames to provide the highly interactive experience and build a parent-child relationship from scratch.

rails turbo model

Shopping Cart Checkout

#420 Sep 17, 2023 pro

Continuing on from Episode 334, we look at creating the rest of the functionality of our shopping cart. We look at creating the checkout page with Stripe and handling the webhooks when a checkout session has been completed.

rails stripe checkout

Time Zones

#419 Sep 10, 2023 pro

Working with time zones can be difficult and lead to the inaccurate display of data. In this episode, we explore how to display dates & times and query records based on a user's time zone.

rails time zones view

Forecasting Data

#416 Aug 27, 2023 pro

In this episode, we will look at a date range of data and build predictions of what future values will be. However, we won't be reaching for any 3rd party APIs, but instead use statistical models to learn from our data to predict the future dates. We'll also display out our data on a table and plot it to a graph.

rails chart stimulusjs javascript

Dot Files

#415 Aug 20, 2023 pro

Dot files are important for customizing our development experience and in this episode, we'll have a look at the .zshrc, .gemrc, .railsrc, and .irbrc dot files and how we can customize them to make our development life easier.

ruby rails development terminal

Developing in Docker

#414 Aug 13, 2023 pro

I use Docker every day and it has make my development workflow much simpler. I don't have to deal with conflicts or issues with macOS since everything is containerized. Before, I would fight my host operating system with mismatched dependencies and configuration problems, but using Docker during my development workflow has simplified things. In this episode, we'll run through how I use Docker on Rails applications and some of the tricks I use to solve the nuances of this approach.

rails development docker

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

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