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Ecommerce Store with Solidus

#176 Mar 10, 2019 pro

Overview of Solidus, a maintained fork of Spree, showing how to configure and work with this Rails Engine.

Web Interactions with Mechanize

#131 Apr 29, 2018 pro

The Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects, and can follow links and submit forms. Form fields can be populated and submitted.

ruby web scraping

Drag and Drop with Hotwire

#311 Aug 29, 2021 pro

Acts as List provides the capabilities for sorting and reordering a number of objects in a list. In combination with SortableJS and Hotwire (Stimulus), we can create a positionable list with ease.

hotwire javascript rails stimulusjs

Streaming Videos with Active Storage

#230 Feb 23, 2020 pro

Video.js is a web video player built from the ground up for an HTML5 world. Learn how to use it with StimulusJS and Active Storage to deliver video content from your Ruby on Rails application.

rails active storage stimulusjs javascript

Getting Started with VueJS

#168 Jan 13, 2019 pro

VueJS is a library for building web interfaces. In this episode, we look at adding VueJS to a Rails Application and working with javascript components.

rails javascript framework vuejs

Database, Model and Scopes

#150 Sep 9, 2018 pro

In this episode, we take a look at some tips and tricks around the database schema and model scopes.

rails model database

Additional Dependencies in Beanstalk

#107 Nov 26, 2017 pro

Sometimes your AWS Beanstalk environment may require configuration changes from your app to properly deploy and get everything working.

rails production deployment

Realtime Client Updates from Background Jobs with Stimulus

#190 May 26, 2019 pro

Using RailsUJS, ActiveJob, ActionCable and Stimulus, we create a realtime feedback for background jobs running to provide a better user experience.

rails javascript websockets stimulusjs

Booking System

#364 Aug 28, 2022 pro

In this episode, we use Hotwire and FullCalendar to create an appointment scheduling program. We will look at blocking appointments outside of business hours as well as preventing overlapping appointments.

rails hotwire calendar

Deploying to Amazon Linux 2

#285 Feb 28, 2021 pro

I recently upgraded Drifting Ruby's site from Ruby 2.6 to Ruby 2.7 as part of some general maintenance. The Beanstalk instance was using an older version of Amazon Linux. During the upgrade process, I discovered that it wasn't a simple transition. In this episode, we look at the discovery path and how to successfully deploy your Ruby on Rails application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Amazon Linux 2 and Ruby 2.7.

aws deployment production rails

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Booking System

Deploying to Amazon Linux 2