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Good Job

#333 Jan 23, 2022 pro

GoodJob is a multithreaded, Postgres-based, ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails.

background processing rails

Local Mail Delivery

#329 Dec 26, 2021 pro

Sending out emails is an important for of communication in our Rails applications. In this episode, we look at creating a local smtp relay with a web frontend to view the emails sent from our Rails application.

docker rails mail smtp

Creating Command Line Applications

#309 Aug 15, 2021 pro

As developers, chances are we are in the terminal often. Command Line Interfaces (CLI), are very helpful in streamlining our work. Ruby is a very powerful language and can make some powerful CLIs. Thor is a powerful option, but in this episode, we look at some alternatives from basic to more advanced scenarios.

ruby command line

bin/functions

#271 Nov 29, 2020 pro

We look into the way I streamline the management of my deployments, SSH and status of applications. This makes it easier to switch between projects without having to refer to notes of how each application should deploy.

deployment rails

Database Encoding

#264 Oct 18, 2020 pro

In this episode, we look at the encoding and some problems that an older Ruby on Rails application may face when it comes to storing emojis and how to fix them.

database rails

HAProxy

#484 Nov 24, 2024 pro

In this episode, we explore deploying HAProxy, a high performant load balancer, with Kamal. We'll look at various scenarios where it is a great fit and other scenarios where you'd want to avoid HAProxy.

rails kamal infrastructure

Dev Containers

#454 Apr 28, 2024 pro

In a later Rails release, dev container configurations will be provided by default. In this episode, we will explore how to use dev containers as well as modifying them to fit our application's needs.

rails development docker

Solid Queue

#438 Jan 21, 2024 pro

Solid Queue is a DB-based queuing backend for Active Job, designed with simplicity and performance in mind. In this episode, we'll look at exploring Solid Queue and and option for a graphical interface to view the jobs.

rails background processing activejob

Text to Image with Machine Learning

#398 Apr 23, 2023 pro

In this episode, we take a new approach to the python service that our Rails background jobs will be calling. This is a more stable and thread safe approach and more simple to implement. We'll look at creating a Text to Image generation service that our Rails application will interact with.

rails artificial intelligence ai active storage

Zipping Files

#385 Jan 22, 2023 pro

In this episode, we have a look at three different methods of zipping Active Storage files and sending the zipped file to the end user. Each approach has its own benefits and the best approach will depend on your use case.

rails model active storage

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