Drifting Ruby

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.

deployment rails

Record Audio to Active Storage

#269 Nov 22, 2020 pro

Learn how to use the MediaRecorder API and StimulusJS for uploading and storing audio files to Active Storage.

javascript rails stimulusjs

Tracking Javascript Errors

#268 Nov 15, 2020 pro

Tracking errors on our server side is important, but we often forget about our client side errors. These can often be even more difficult to troubleshoot as there are many more variables at play. In this episode, we look at tracking the Javascript errors so that we can be notified of any issues our users experience.

javascript rails stimulusjs

Organizing Stimulus Controllers

#267 Nov 8, 2020 pro

StimulusJS is great and works great with Ruby on Rails. However, through developer habits, we can complicate our controllers and make them hard to manage. In this episode, we look at making our Stimulus controllers more manageable.

javascript rails stimulusjs

Deferred Content Loading

#265 Oct 25, 2020 pro

Learn to load slow content in the background so that your application still responds quickly while the heavy calculations are being done. Give quick responsiveness and optional polling to partials.

rails stimulusjs

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

StimulusJS, Active Storage and DropzoneJS

#263 Oct 11, 2020 pro

DropzoneJS is an open source library that provides drag’n’drop file uploads with image previews. It's lightweight, highly customizable and doesn't have any dependencies.

active storage rails stimulusjs uploads

Testing Stripe Payments

#261 Sep 27, 2020 pro

Continuing from the previous episode, we add testing to the Stripe Payments without adding any additional dependencies.

payments rails tests

Stripe Payments

#260 Sep 20, 2020 pro

The past tutorials look at creating subscriptions with Stripe, but in this episode, we look at using Stripe for a cart-like checkout system where nonrecurring orders can be placed.

payments rails stripe

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