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Real-time Comments and Voting

#331 Jan 9, 2022 pro

Using Hotwire we'll create a comment and voting system from scratch without any javascript. With the help of Turbo, we enable real-time updates and broadcasts of comments and votes.

7.0 hotwire rails turbo

Local Mail Delivery

#329 Dec 26, 2021 pro

Sending out emails is an important for of communication in our Rails applications. In this episode, we look at creating a local smtp relay with a web frontend to view the emails sent from our Rails application.

docker rails mail smtp

Rails Routes

#328 Dec 19, 2021 pro

Routing in Rails is small but an important part of our applications. The Rails router recognizes URLs and dispatches them to a controller's action, or to a Rack application. It can also generate paths and URLs, avoiding the need to hardcode strings in your views.

rails routes

Optimistic Locking

#327 Dec 12, 2021 pro

Optimistic Locking is a feature to prevent collision when two users are editing the same record. In this episode, we look at adding this feature into a Rails 7 application that is using Turbo.

form model rails

Dynamic Select Forms with Hotwire

#325 Nov 28, 2021 pro

Using StimulusJS and Turbo, we are able to dynamically update select input with content based on another select input. This allows for a seamless user experience while having a configurable and maintainable backend.

7.0 form hotwire rails turbo

Materialized Views in PostgreSQL

#324 Nov 21, 2021 pro

Using Scenic, you can bring the power of SQL views to your Rails application without having to switch your schema format to SQL. Scenic provides a convention for versioning views that keeps your migration history consistent and reversible and avoids having to duplicate SQL strings across migrations.

database rails postgresql query

Fixing Assets in CSS Bundling for Rails

#323 Nov 14, 2021 pro

CSS Bundling for Rails provides a new way for importing and managing our CSS assets in Rails Applications, but it does have some challenges around a few libraries (specifically font awesome and a few others) which we'll look at in this episode.

7.0 assets css rails

Authentication with Sorcery

#321 Oct 31, 2021 pro

Sorcery is a stripped-down, bare-bones authentication library, with which you can write your own authentication flow. In this episode we look at creating the controllers and views for a simple authentication solution.

authentication rails security

Docker on Rails 7

#320 Oct 24, 2021 pro

In this episode, we look at changing the default Rails 7 development environment over to a Docker based environment.

7.0 docker rails

From Webpacker to esbuild

#319 Oct 17, 2021 pro

With Rails 7 coming out soon, it's a good time to look at what it could take to upgrade our existing applications to esbuild. In this episode, we start with a Rails 6 application and begin the upgrade process by removing Webpacker and switching over to esbuild.

7.0 esbuild javascript rails upgrade webpacker

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