Drifting Ruby

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.

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

Label Maker with Ruby

#343 Apr 3, 2022 free

Learn how to turn your tweets into physical printouts on a label maker via the Cups/PPD API. It's a silly concept, but can have some great real world application with interfacing with printers.

rails api

Remote Development

#339 Mar 6, 2022 free

Having a fast and expensive computer to do daily development is a luxury. Sometimes, we may be in a position where we are just getting started with programming and the budget is very small. In this episode we look at a very moderately priced Chromebook and explore how we can make it into a viable development machine.

rails development

Hotwire Modals

#335 Feb 6, 2022 free

In this episode, we look at creating an unobtrusive and efficient way to launch Bootstrap modals using Turbo and Stimulus.

7.0 rails hotwire turbo stimulusjs

Dabbling with Turbo

#326 Dec 5, 2021 free

In this episode, we explore some of the new features with Turbo and interactions that we can do with little or no javascript.

7.0 hotwire rails turbo

Speeding Up Requests

#322 Nov 7, 2021 free

In this episode, we look at several issues around pagination and different kinds of querying that could affect performance when working with large datasets.

performance rails search pagination

Error Tracking from Scratch

#317 Oct 3, 2021 free

In this episode, we look at creating a middleware to track errors to publish to another error "from scratch" error monitoring application.

error middleware rails

esbuild for Rails

#313 Sep 5, 2021 free

Use esbuild to bundle your JavaScript, then deliver it via the asset pipeline in Rails. This gem provides an installer to get you going with esbuild in a new Rails application.

7.0 javascript rails assets

Importmaps in Rails 7

#312 Sep 5, 2021 free

Import maps let you import JavaScript modules using logical names that map to versioned/digested files – directly from the browser. This will be a default in the upcoming Rails 7.

javascript rails 7.0 assets

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