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Turbolinks 5

#125 Mar 18, 2018 pro

Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster. Get the performance benefits of a single-page application without the added complexity of a client-side JavaScript framework. Use HTML to render your views on the server side and link to pages as usual.

rails javascript

SimpleMDE and ActiveStorage

#124 Mar 11, 2018 pro

SimpleMDE is a great WYSIWYG Markdown Editor, but lacks the ability to handle image uploads. In this episode, we look at adding ActiveStorage and some JavaScript to handle image uploading.

rails upload uploads wysiwyg

More on GraphQL - Organizing and Refactoring

#122 Feb 25, 2018 pro

In this episode, we take a look at our GraphQL API that we created from Episode 119 and refactor the mutations and queries so that we keep the structure and API manageable.

rails api graphql

Ruby Objects and Memoization

#120 Feb 18, 2018 pro

In this episode, we look at creating ruby objects. Then we look at different ways of implementing memoization and how it can be used to speed up our classes.

ruby performance

Introduction to GraphQL

#119 Feb 11, 2018 pro

GraphQL is a query language for your API. In this episode, we will look at adding GraphQL to our Ruby on Rails application and seeing how we can pull down data and create records.

rails api graphql

Upgrading Ruby on Rails Versions

#117 Jan 28, 2018 pro

In this episode, we look at updating a Ruby on Rails application from v4.2.10 to v5.0.6. The overall steps taken will vary from every application, but the concepts applied will relatively be the same.

rails upgrade

More on Stripe and Webhooks

#116 Jan 21, 2018 pro

Continuing from Episode 114 and Episode 115, we look into adding listeners to Stripe's webhooks for tracking events occurring with customers, subscriptions and charges.

payments rails webhooks

More on Stripe and Subscriptions

#115 Jan 21, 2018 pro

In our previous episode, we looked at setting up our application to create Stripe Subscriptions. In this episode, we will look at managing the Subscriptions and working with cancelling and resubscribing to a subscription.

payments rails

Payment Gateway Basics with Stripe

#114 Jan 14, 2018 pro

Learn how to add a merchant services to your Ruby on Rails application in the first part of this series. We will be looking at adding a subscription service using Stripe Elements.

rails payments

Stimulus Javascript Framework

#112 Dec 31, 2017 pro

Used at Basecamp for some time, and recently open sourced to the public, Stimulus is a small Javascript Framework used to manipulate existing DOM elements on the page. This episode, we will dive into interacting with Stimulus and setting it up in a new Ruby on Rails application.

rails javascript javascript framework stimulusjs

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