Drifting Ruby

View

Episodes

Sort

Rails Version

Counter Culture

#435 Dec 31, 2023 pro

The provided ActiveRecord counter caching mechanism provides some great basic functionality, but quickly becomes insufficient if you need more complex totaling or summing of records. In this episode, we'll look at implementing the counter_culture gem to gain extra functionality.

rails model

Digital Ocean App Platform

#434 Dec 24, 2023 pro

Fly, AWS App Runner, Render and Heroku are great choices for Platform as a Service solutions, but there's Digital Ocean's App Platform. In this episode we'll look at deploying a Rails 7.1 application to this Digital Ocean PaaS.

rails deployment

Custom Dashboard - Part 2

#433 Dec 17, 2023 pro

In this episode, we continue on from the previous episode where we finish up the dashboard and configure the views with Turbo Frame Tags.

rails hotwire stimulusjs turbo

Custom Dashboard - Part 1

#432 Dec 10, 2023 pro

In this episode, we'll look at creating the initial management for a customizable dashboard. Users can add and arrange widgets to their dashboard.

rails hotwire stimulusjs

Rails Organization

#430 Nov 26, 2023 pro

In this episode, we look at refactoring a model with a few different approaches; modules, classes and concerns. We'll explore each implementation and when I'd use one over the other.

rails organization model

Working with YAML

#429 Nov 19, 2023 pro

In this episode, we look at a few different ways that we can interact with YAML files in our Ruby on Rails application; using them for loading configurations and also seeding data.

rails data

Form Input UX

#428 Nov 12, 2023 pro

In this episode, we'll focus on the user experience (UX) of form inputs by adding formatting of the text as the user inputs the data.

rails form ux stimulusjs

readonly?

#426 Oct 29, 2023 pro

In this episode, we look at making records read-only and also creating an override functionality where we can force the record to save. We'll also look at error handling when a record update is made to a read-only record.

rails model

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

Learning Paths

Video Logs new

Blog

Merchandise

Forums new