Drifting Ruby

Friend Requests From Scratch

#155 Oct 14, 2018 pro

Part I - In this episode, we create our authentication for users, default view for authenticated users, friendship model, associations and scopes for our social media application.

rails model security series - social media

Persistent Referral Links with Devise

#192 Jun 9, 2019 pro

In this episode we create a referral system with permanent links. Users can sign up with referral links which tracks the relationship between the referer and the person referred.

rails model associations

Null Object Pattern

#345 Apr 17, 2022 pro

The Null Object Pattern is an old but good pattern that can help reduce complexity in our applications. In this episode, we'll look at a few different examples.

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Search Encrypted Attributes with Blind Index

#139 Jun 24, 2018 pro

Keeping client data protected is important, but once an attribute is encrypted, it becomes difficult to work with it. With Blind Index, we regain functionality on searching and validations.

rails model security

Activity Feed with Public Activity

#159 Nov 11, 2018 pro

Add an activity feed to your application with Public Activity.

rails model series - social media

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.

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Friend Requests Views, Controllers, and Model Methods

#156 Oct 21, 2018 pro

Part II - In this episode, we create performant links for adding, accepting/rejecting and removing friends for our social media application.

view rails model series - social media controller

Active Record Encryption

#346 Apr 24, 2022 pro

Active Record supports application-level encryption. The encryption layer sits between the database and the application. The application will access unencrypted data, but the database will store it encrypted. In this episode, we look at implementing encryption for a model's attribute and Action Text.

rails model encryption

Partial Inserts

#360 Jul 31, 2022 pro

Parsing through the Ruby on Rails CHANGELOG can reveal some interesting features and changes in the framework. In this episode, we look at one of those changes around inserting records into our database.

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Inviting Collaborators from Scratch

#238 Apr 19, 2020 pro

In this episode, we continue the Trello clone by adding a collaborator invitation mechanism to join working on lists. We look at some tricky ActiveRecord relationships and various solutions.

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Friend Requests Views, Controllers, and Model Methods

Active Record Encryption

Partial Inserts

Inviting Collaborators from Scratch