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Session Hijacking

#400 May 7, 2023 free

In this episode, we explore session hijacking and an approach that we can take to limit the risk. There are some user experience and functionality caveats to this approach so they must be taken into consideration as well.

rails security

Page Not Found

#404 Jun 4, 2023 free

In this episode, we take a few different approaches in how we display error pages in our Rails application. We'll also look at a few potential problems with each approach that we need to be aware of.

rails error view

PDF Reader

#413 Aug 6, 2023 free

When previewing PDF files that were uploaded through Active Storage, we can only get a simple image of the first page. In this episode, we'll look at taking the uploaded PDFs and interacting with them.

rails uploads hotwire stimulusjs

I'm a teapot

#418 Sep 6, 2023 free

A special release to celebrate 418 episodes. I talk about different HTTP response codes.

rails meta

Exploring Campfire

#439 Jan 24, 2024 free

In this episode, we explore the Campfire code from 37signals' Once product line. We'll install the product and grab the code base to get it up and running on our development environment.

rails campfire development

Drifting Ruby Gource

#121 Feb 24, 2018 free

This is a video of the Drifting Ruby Code Base being built over the years.

random

Kamal Database Backups

#485 Dec 1, 2024 free

In this episode, we look at some precautions we can take with our production environment and setup recurring backups for the database.

rails deployment kamal

Hotkeys

#431 Dec 3, 2023 free

Keyboard shortcuts, or Hotkeys, can provide a great experience to users of an application. In this episode, we will use a stimulus wrapper around this library to use within our Ruby on Rails application.

rails stimulusjs javascript

Fart

#450 Apr 1, 2024 free

Ever wonder how you could add audio to interactions on a website. In this episode, we'll explore adding sounds whenever someone clicks on a link or button.

rails javascript april fools

Windows and WSL

#451 Apr 7, 2024 free

In this episode, we'll look at setting up a fresh Windows 11 environment for Ruby on Rails development. We'll be looking at a few different tricks that makes managing a Windows environment much easier.

rails windows wsl development

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