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Searching Multiple Models

#370 Oct 9, 2022 pro

In this episode, we look at creating a simple and maintainable way to search multiple models. As our application grows and the needs change, other avenues can be explored, but it's important to not prematurely optimize things before they're actually required.

rails search database model

Downloading Cloud Database

#368 Sep 25, 2022 pro

Sometimes we need to pull down our staging database that is hosted in the cloud. This can be a tedious task as there could be many blockers that add complications in pulling down this data.

rails database cloud

Tailwind CSS

#367 Sep 18, 2022 pro

In this episode, we look at adding Tailwind CSS to our Rails 7 application as well as applying a component library on top to add simplicity and consistency to our views.

rails view css

Booking System Live Updates

#366 Sep 11, 2022 pro

Continuing on from Episode 364, we look at a few different approaches to getting live updates on Full Calendar. We look at a few attempts which seems to work, but introduce unfavorable bugs and finally a workaround to get things working nicely.

rails hotwire calendar

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

Hotwire Question and Answer Feature

#363 Aug 21, 2022 pro

In this episode, we create a highly interactive question and answer feature using Ruby on Rails and Hotwire. We also look at handling contextual actions based on the user when broadcasting the answers, all without writing any javascript.

rails hotwire turbo

Stripe Donations

#362 Aug 14, 2022 pro

In this episode, we look at two different ways to handle donations with Stripe. The first method is a "no code" way that would work on any website that may not have a backend. The second method, we use the Stripe gem and their API to create a Checkout session for handling donations.

rails payments stripe

Partial Inserts

#360 Jul 31, 2022 pro

Parsing through the Ruby on Rails CHANGELOG can reveal some interesting features and changes in the framework. In this episode, we look at one of those changes around inserting records into our database.

rails model activerecord

Testing External Sites

#359 Jul 24, 2022 pro

Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation where we are handling the releases for an important application in our organization, but with each release, a regression/happy path testing must occur. We can use Ruby and Capybara to test these external sites.

tests ruby

Liquid Templates

#358 Jul 17, 2022 pro

Using Stimulus and Liquid, we can create real time previews of the Liquid Template Renderer. Liquid provides a markup language that is a safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.

rails view stimulusjs

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