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Single Table Inheritance

#97 Sep 10, 2017 free

Learn to use single table inheritance to allow multiple classes to be stored in the same database table.

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Grab Bag of Ruby and Ruby on Rails Tricks

#158 Nov 4, 2018 free

In this episode, we look at various tips and tricks.

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Polymorphic Associations

#98 Sep 17, 2017 free

Advancing from Single Table Inheritance, learn how Polymorphic Associations differ and tricks to simplify their usage.

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Deleting and Undeleting with Paranoia

#19 Oct 7, 2015 free

When your app is using Paranoia, calling destroy on an ActiveRecord object doesn't actually destroy the database record, but just hides it.

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Counter Cache Associations

#78 May 1, 2017 free

When displaying a count of records, this will generate extra SQL Queries. Learn how to reduce the number of SQL queries called with counter caching the number of associated records.

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Eager Loading with Goldiloader

#30 May 23, 2016 free

Wouldn't it be awesome if ActiveRecord didn't make you think about eager loading and it just did the "right" thing by default? With Goldiloader it can!

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Serialized Attributes

#4 Jul 22, 2015 free

Store multiple attributes and values using a text column. Not for everyday use, but has situations where it can save on the number of columns and/or models needed to accomplish a task.

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Annotate

#11 Aug 7, 2015 free

With strong params replacing attr_accessible, a difficulty has arisen with referencing to the structure of your models. With annotate, we can generate the structure of our models in the comments of our models.

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Florrick

#5 Jul 24, 2015 free

This is a Rails library which integrates with Active Records and provides some awesome user-initiated string interpolations for your web apps. For example, have you ever needed to allow users to insert their own variables into e-mail templates or messages?

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Like Relationships and Global ID

#223 Jan 5, 2020 free

In this episode we create a Like/Unlike system where users can like posts and use Global ID to obfuscate IDs.

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