Drifting Ruby

Searchkick and Elasticsearch

#65 Jan 29, 2017 free

Add full text searching using Searchkick and Elasticsearch. Here I will show the steps involved in adding this search to an existing application and a sample of autocomplete functionality.

rails search performance

WYSIWYG Editor with Trix

#28 May 9, 2016 free

Compose beautifully formatted text in your web application. Trix is a WYSIWYG editor for writing messages, comments, articles, and lists.

rails wysiwyg view ajax javascript

Push Notifications with ActionCable

#205 Sep 1, 2019 free

In this episode, we look into using Push Notifications within our Rails application and then using ActionCable to broadcast Push Notifications to the user.

rails websockets notifications actioncable

10 Tips and Tricks

#299 Jun 6, 2021 free

I don't get around to doing these too often, but they are always a lot of fun. In this episode, we'll look at ten different Ruby on Rails tips and tricks.

rails tips tricks

Nested Forms with Cocoon

#71 Mar 12, 2017 free

Using the unobtrusive gem, Cocoon, learn how to handle multiple models in a single form with accepts_nested_attributes_for.

rails form javascript

Active Record Tricks

#347 May 1, 2022 free

In this episode, we look at tips and tricks from read only attributes, inserting and upserting (update or insert) records, toggling booleans, and single table inheritance.

rails activerecord

Hotwire

#275 Dec 23, 2020 free

Hotwire is the newest magic which takes a different approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript.

javascript rails stimulusjs

Page Specific Javascript in Ruby on Rails

#74 Apr 2, 2017 free

Sometimes you may find yourself with an application that has javascript that needs to execute only on a specific page. This episode lays the foundation to easily manage page specific javascript.

rails javascript view

Drag and Drop with Interact.js

#75 Apr 9, 2017 free

Using Interact.js to create draggable and droppable items in our view, we can use AJAX callbacks on events to interact with our Ruby on Rails application. Also, learn how to use Ruby Assets to manage our Javascript Libraries.

rails javascript assets ajax view

Hotwire Turbo Replacing Rails UJS

#307 Aug 1, 2021 free

In this episode, we look at some common functionality that we got with Rails UJS and what it looks like to reimplement these with Hotwire's Turbo and StimulusJS.

hotwire javascript rails stimulusjs turbo ujs

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Page Specific Javascript in Ruby on Rails

Drag and Drop with Interact.js

Hotwire Turbo Replacing Rails UJS