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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.

rails data model

Outlets and Permanent Tags

#494 Feb 2, 2025 free

In this episode, we'll explore how we can add a "global" music player that will persist across different pages. Our approach will be unobtrusive and implemented in a maintainable way.

rails view stimulusjs outlets

Password Strength

#493 Jan 26, 2025 pro

In this episode, we will use the Rails 8 authentication generator and add a stimulus controller to show the strength of a password when signing up for an account. This functionality will work with Devise, ActionAuth and other authentication solutions as well.

rails authentication stimulusjs security

Refreshing Turbo Frames

#492 Jan 19, 2025 pro

In this episode, we discuss several different approaches to refreshing data within Turbo Frame Tags and pick the approach that will be most universal. We'll also look at some of the downsides of other approaches.

rails turbo view stimulusjs

ViewComponent

#491 Jan 12, 2025 pro

Continuing from the previous episode, we look at organizing the code so that it's easier to manage. To do this, we'll use ViewComponent and address some issues that arise.

rails view organization

Skeleton Frames

#490 Jan 5, 2025 free

In this episode, we look at implementing a temporary loader for turbo frame tags to give a visual of data that is loading.

rails view turbo

Hotwire Spark

#489 Dec 29, 2024 pro

A new library has been released for hot reloading Ruby on Rails applications. This isn't a new idea, but one that is designed to work natively and unobtrusively with Importmaps based Rails apps. In this episode, we'll look at both a Importmap application and one using Jsbundling.

rails development stimulusjs

Kamal Logs

#488 Dec 22, 2024 pro

In this episode we will look at shipping our application logs to a third party service. There are many ways to do this, but since we're using Kamal, we'll explore the most unobtrusive way without adding any gems.

rails kamal infrastructure

Stimulus Action:Options

#487 Dec 15, 2024 pro

In this episode, we explore some of the lesser used options with Stimulus Actions. We'll discuss some nuances with them and the best approach when documenting the code.

rails hotwire stimulusjs

Browser LLMs

#486 Dec 8, 2024 pro

In this episode, we look at leveraging the end user's hardware and WebGPU to run large language models directly in the user's browser.

rails artificial intelligence stimulusjs

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