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Marksmith

#512 Jun 1, 2025 free

Easily add Markdown support to your Rails applications with Marksmith. This isn't a drop-in replacement to ActionText, but can be used with text or blob columns. Marksmith integrates easily with ActiveStorage for handling file uploads. In this episode, we'll explore setting up Marksmith and some best practices.

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Printing

#511 May 25, 2025 pro

In this episode, we look at styling and implementing a print functionality to hide away content on our page that doesn't need to be printed. While small, this feature can make a big difference in how people consume pages on your application.

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Scaffold Templates

#508 May 4, 2025 free

In this episode, we explore using the scaffold generator and modifying the templates to simplify the creation of consistent, Tailwind CSS-styled views and controllers in a Rails application, saving time when prototyping and building new features.

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Application Templates

#507 Apr 27, 2025 pro

In this episode, we look at a metaprogramming technique combined with Rails functionality to reduce repetitive code. It's not always a great fit, but for applications or views where they share similar feels, it can help their maintainability and the development speed in setting up new functionality.

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Classification Models

#502 Mar 30, 2025 pro

Continuing from the previous episode, we look at removing the LLM in favor of a Classification Model. This will allow a more directed course of action for the Rails application to take based on the user input. We'll also look at fine tuning the model so that we are able to get better classifications of the user input.

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Chat Agent

#501 Mar 23, 2025 pro

In this episode, we lay down the ground work to have a chat agent in our Rails application. We'll be creating this from complete scratch and set it up in a way that you can have responses generated however you want.

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Confetti

#500 Mar 16, 2025 pro

In celebration of Episode #500, we'll be looking at adding confetti to our Rails application. While seemingly a bit silly, this can add a bit of flare to your application when used properly.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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