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Debounce

#550 Feb 22, 2026 pro

Demonstrate how to implement a debounced live search in a Rails application using Stimulus and Turbo, improving UX by reducing unnecessary server requests.

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Turbo Permanent

#546 Jan 25, 2026 pro

In this episode, we'll look at common problems with broadcasting refreshes and page morphs as well as some paths to a solution to provide a good user experience.

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RequestJS

#544 Jan 11, 2026 pro

In this episode, we'll have a look at a few different examples of how to make AJAX requests in a modern Rails application. We'll also explore some of the different things to be aware of and patterns that I feel make for maintainable applications.

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Fizzy JS Patterns

#540 Dec 14, 2025 pro

In this episode, we look at the open source project Fizzy and the Javascript patterns used. We will look at various patterns used and some thoughts of improvement.

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Pull to Refresh

#532 Oct 19, 2025 pro

When PWA websites are installed (specifically on iOS) there is some functionality lost to refresh the page. In this episode, we explore in how to restore this functionality.

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Chat Agent

#501 Mar 23, 2025 pro

In this episode, we lay down the ground work to have a chat agent in our Rails application. We'll be creating this from complete scratch and set it up in a way that you can have responses generated however you want.

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Confetti

#500 Mar 16, 2025 pro

In celebration of Episode #500, we'll be looking at adding confetti to our Rails application. While seemingly a bit silly, this can add a bit of flare to your application when used properly.

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Password Strength

#493 Jan 26, 2025 pro

In this episode, we will use the Rails 8 authentication generator and add a stimulus controller to show the strength of a password when signing up for an account. This functionality will work with Devise, ActionAuth and other authentication solutions as well.

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Refreshing Turbo Frames

#492 Jan 19, 2025 pro

In this episode, we discuss several different approaches to refreshing data within Turbo Frame Tags and pick the approach that will be most universal. We'll also look at some of the downsides of other approaches.

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Hotwire Spark

#489 Dec 29, 2024 pro

A new library has been released for hot reloading Ruby on Rails applications. This isn't a new idea, but one that is designed to work natively and unobtrusively with Importmaps based Rails apps. In this episode, we'll look at both a Importmap application and one using Jsbundling.

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