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Delegated Types

#553 Mar 15, 2026 pro

In this episode, we'll explore the Delegated Types pattern and how to use it. We'll discuss different scenarios where it would be a good fit and where it would also be a bad fit.

rails model

LLM Usage

#524 Aug 24, 2025 pro

In this episode, we track our prompt and completion tokens that are called from our application. This is a small feature, but can raise important insights to the usage of LLMs in our application as well as some user behavior.

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Multitenant Conversion

#523 Aug 17, 2025 pro

In this episode, we will look at taking an existing application and set it up for multitenancy. This kind of functionality is often thought of during the initial development, but can later become a requirement and then tough decisions have to be made.

rails model

Embeddings

#499 Mar 9, 2025 pro

In this episode, we explore embeddings and how they improve search and recommendations by converting text into numerical vectors. We'll set up a Rails 8 app with PostgreSQL + PG Vector, generate embeddings, and perform similarity searches.

rails model ai machine learning search

Normalizes

#495 Feb 9, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll have a look at various approaches to data consistency and why it could be important to normalize the data. We'll look at and old approach and a more current one along with the caveats associated with each of them.

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