Drifting Ruby

Hotwire Introduction

#369 Oct 2, 2022 free

Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. With Rails 7, we get Hotwire added in by default. In this episode, we look at some of the features with Hotwire and how to use them.

rails hotwire javascript turbo stimulusjs

Downloading Cloud Database

#368 Sep 25, 2022 pro

Sometimes we need to pull down our staging database that is hosted in the cloud. This can be a tedious task as there could be many blockers that add complications in pulling down this data.

rails database cloud

Tailwind CSS

#367 Sep 18, 2022 pro

In this episode, we look at adding Tailwind CSS to our Rails 7 application as well as applying a component library on top to add simplicity and consistency to our views.

rails view css

Booking System Live Updates

#366 Sep 11, 2022 pro

Continuing on from Episode 364, we look at a few different approaches to getting live updates on Full Calendar. We look at a few attempts which seems to work, but introduce unfavorable bugs and finally a workaround to get things working nicely.

rails hotwire calendar

Automate Rake Tasks

#365 Sep 4, 2022 free

When rake tasks need to be part of a deployment, you could find yourself in a situation where the rake task was forgotten about or have to go through the process of shelling into the environment to execute the tasks. In this episode, we look at addressing these issues by creating a way to have rake tasks execute automatically.

rails tasks deployment

Booking System

#364 Aug 28, 2022 pro

In this episode, we use Hotwire and FullCalendar to create an appointment scheduling program. We will look at blocking appointments outside of business hours as well as preventing overlapping appointments.

rails hotwire calendar

Hotwire Question and Answer Feature

#363 Aug 21, 2022 pro

In this episode, we create a highly interactive question and answer feature using Ruby on Rails and Hotwire. We also look at handling contextual actions based on the user when broadcasting the answers, all without writing any javascript.

rails hotwire turbo

Stripe Donations

#362 Aug 14, 2022 pro

In this episode, we look at two different ways to handle donations with Stripe. The first method is a "no code" way that would work on any website that may not have a backend. The second method, we use the Stripe gem and their API to create a Checkout session for handling donations.

rails payments stripe

Ubuntu Desktop

#361 Aug 7, 2022 free

Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that offers a great development experience and can run on most x86/amd64 systems. In this episode, we set up our Ruby on Rails development environment on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish.

development rails environment

Partial Inserts

#360 Jul 31, 2022 pro

Parsing through the Ruby on Rails CHANGELOG can reveal some interesting features and changes in the framework. In this episode, we look at one of those changes around inserting records into our database.

rails model activerecord

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