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Extracting Logic into a Gem

#525 Aug 31, 2025 pro

In this episode, we look at some of the hurdles when extracting business logic out of an application into a gem.

rails gem llm

LLM Usage

#524 Aug 24, 2025 pro

In this episode, we track our prompt and completion tokens that are called from our application. This is a small feature, but can raise important insights to the usage of LLMs in our application as well as some user behavior.

rails model ai machine learning

Multitenant Conversion

#523 Aug 17, 2025 pro

In this episode, we will look at taking an existing application and set it up for multitenancy. This kind of functionality is often thought of during the initial development, but can later become a requirement and then tough decisions have to be made.

rails model

Tailwind Plus

#522 Aug 10, 2025 pro

In this episode, we look at Tailwind Plus and how to integrate it into our Rails application. We will explore some of the necessary setup and what Tailwind Plus is not.

rails ui

Worker Limits

#520 Jul 27, 2025 pro

In this episode, we look at situations when an external API does not have a normal rate limit, but instead has concurrency limits. This can also apply to situations where you have limited resources on the API that you're calling. This can also work well in other situations where the background job is accessing limited resources.

rails background processing

Database Constraints

#519 Jul 20, 2025 pro

In this episode, we have a look at two different scenarios where database level constraints are used to ensure the data integrity of our Rails application. The first scenario is more simple and the second one deals with associated records.

rails database validations

Password Managers

#518 Jul 13, 2025 pro

In this episode, we're going to look at using password managers (1Password and Bitwarden) to pass secrets into Kamal for deploying our applications.

rails deploy kamal

Database Replica

#516 Jun 29, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll look at database connection switching within a Rails application to switch between a primary and replica database. This has many benefits on applications which many many read and write transactions.

rails database docker

Log Bench

#515 Jun 22, 2025 pro

Tailing logs can be rather annoying in a development environment when looking for a specific request. In this episode, we're going to explore the Log Bench gem and the value it adds to our development experience.

rails development

System Tests in Docker

#514 Jun 15, 2025 pro

Setting up system tests to run heedlessly in a docker container can be rather difficult. In this episode, we'll dockerize a Rails application and set up the application to run the system tests in the docker environment.

rails development docker tests

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