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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

Development Approach

#497 Feb 23, 2025 pro

Working with 3rd party integrations can be time consuming, complicated and we can take many different approaches when creating a proof of concept. In this episode, we're going to look at creating a development environment with Jupyter Notebooks so that we can iterate fast and remove a lot of the complexities of our application.

rails development api

Kamal Kitchen Sink

#481 Nov 3, 2024 free

In this episode, we look at creating an entire infrastructure (proxy, load balancer, app servers, worker servers, database server, and a storage server) on our own hardware use Kamal to provision and deploy our Ruby on Rails application.

rails deploy kamal

Kamal 2 with PostgreSQL

#478 Oct 13, 2024 pro

In this episode, we expand on the previous episode by changing our database from Sqlite to PostgreSQL. We'll dive into some problems and some tricks to best handle the change. While we don't perform a data migration, we'll explore different ways to handle this.

rails deploy kamal postgresql

Kamal 2

#477 Oct 6, 2024 free

In this episode we look at deploying a Rails 8 beta application to a Digital Ocean droplet. We'll also look at a scenario of deploying Action Cable broadcasts and another with recurring background jobs.

rails 8.0 deploy kamal

Solid Queue v1.0.0

#476 Sep 29, 2024 pro

There's been a lot of updates to Solid Queue recently and with these changes came with some different approaches in how we set up the database and get visibility into the background workers.

rails background processing solid queue

From Heroku to Kamal

#462 Jun 23, 2024 pro

Ready to migrate your app off of Heroku? In this episode, we guide you through a full migration, from backing up data to securing your new server setup.

rails infrastructure deployment kamal

Campfire Deploy with Kamal

#440 Jan 28, 2024 pro

In this episode, we look at setting up our Campfire instance to be deployable with Kamal instead of the Once CLI. This has a few benefits over the standard deployment mechanism if you are going to be tweaking and making your own changes to the Campfire code. We'll also look at taking in the incoming changes from Once to rebase into our Kamal setup.

rails campfire deployment kamal

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

Digital Ocean App Platform

#434 Dec 24, 2023 pro

Fly, AWS App Runner, Render and Heroku are great choices for Platform as a Service solutions, but there's Digital Ocean's App Platform. In this episode we'll look at deploying a Rails 7.1 application to this Digital Ocean PaaS.

rails deployment

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