Drifting Ruby

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.

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Seed like a Pro

#284 Feb 21, 2021 pro

Seeding your database is often an overlooked part of development and it has a lot of benefits that can help uncover issues within your application. However, maintaining the seeds.rb can be difficult and things can get out of hand quickly. In this episode, learn how to manage and maintain the seeds file.

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Feature Rollout

#283 Feb 14, 2021 pro

Using feature flags based on Redis, we can enable and disable access to certain areas of our application. In this episode, learn how to set up this functionality.

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Purge Orphaned Active Storage Records

#281 Jan 31, 2021 pro

Over time, orphaned records can build up within Active Storage. In this episode, we look at a few approaches to clean up these orphaned records.

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Cropping Active Storage Uploads

#280 Jan 24, 2021 pro

Cropping images can be hard and there can be quite a few complications. In this episode, we have a look at using StimulusJS to crop images uploaded through Active Storage.

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Direct Upload Instantly

#279 Jan 17, 2021 pro

Learn how to select files and trigger them to upload to Active Storage instantly.

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Creating and Reading QR Codes

#278 Jan 10, 2021 pro

Reading QR Codes can be a tricky task. We look at being able to generate QR Codes on our Ruby on Rails backend and read them on the client side using a couple of libraries and Stimulus JS.

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Avatars

#276 Dec 27, 2020 pro

Learn how to build avatars with initials and conditionally prefer Gravatar images if they exist.

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Cache Warming

#273 Dec 13, 2020 pro

Caching is a great way to speed up your applications. However, when a cache becomes stale, there could be a user experience degradation until the cache is rebuilt. In this episode, we look at implementing a background job to rebuild the cache.

background processing performance rails

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.

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Cache Warming

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