Drifting Ruby

Multiple Databases

#353 Jun 12, 2022 pro

As an application grows in popularity and usage you'll need to scale the application to support your new users and their data. One way in which your application may need to scale is on the database level. In this episode, we look at reading from a replica database while writing to a primary database. We also look at structuring our application top support multiple databases; each containing their own schema.

rails database infrastructure

Roles from Scratch

#352 Jun 5, 2022 free

In this episode, we look at different authorization approaches from the most simple to more complex scenarios.

rails model authorization

PDFs with Prawn

#351 May 29, 2022 pro

Prawn is a pure Ruby PDF generation library that provides a lot of great functionality while trying to remain simple and reasonably performant. In this episode, we look at the styling our code and generating PDFs.

rails pdf poro

Limiting Text Input

#350 May 22, 2022 pro

User experience is important and there are little things that we can do to help improve this experience. By giving real time feedback on text inputs to approaching limits on fields, the user can modify and update their text accordingly before they submit the form. In this episode, we look at database level, model validations and limiting text input on the client side.

rails validations database stimulusjs

Secure User Passwords

#349 May 15, 2022 pro

We have a look at integrating the HaveIBeenPwned service with Devise so that our users will some awareness of their password being potentially compromised.

rails security authentication

Discussing Race Conditions

#348 May 8, 2022 pro

In this episode, we have a look at some causes of race conditions and go about some ways to troubleshoot and mitigate them.

rails model database background processing

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

Active Record Encryption

#346 Apr 24, 2022 pro

Active Record supports application-level encryption. The encryption layer sits between the database and the application. The application will access unencrypted data, but the database will store it encrypted. In this episode, we look at implementing encryption for a model's attribute and Action Text.

rails model encryption

Null Object Pattern

#345 Apr 17, 2022 pro

The Null Object Pattern is an old but good pattern that can help reduce complexity in our applications. In this episode, we'll look at a few different examples.

rails model refactor

Deploying to Render

#344 Apr 10, 2022 pro

Heroku is not the only PaaS anymore and there are some cheaper alternatives now-a-days. In this episode, we explore deploying a Ruby on Rails 7 application to Render.

rails production deployment

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