Drifting Ruby

Time Zones

#419 Sep 10, 2023 pro

Working with time zones can be difficult and lead to the inaccurate display of data. In this episode, we explore how to display dates & times and query records based on a user's time zone.

rails time zones view

Fancy Emails with MJML

#411 Jul 23, 2023 pro

Managing email styling and formats can be a large task so having a templating framework in place to help manage these will not only help them be consistent, but also easier to maintain as time goes on. In this episode, we'll look at implementing MJML as well as solving some common problems.

rails mail view

Page Not Found

#404 Jun 4, 2023 free

In this episode, we take a few different approaches in how we display error pages in our Rails application. We'll also look at a few potential problems with each approach that we need to be aware of.

rails error view

View Transitions API

#397 Apr 16, 2023 pro

The View Transition API makes it easy to change the DOM in a single step, while creating an animated transition between the two states. Currently, it's available in Chrome 111 and Microsoft Edge. In this episode, we'll create a stimulus controller to interact with this new UX.

rails stimulusjs view

Strict Locals

#388 Feb 12, 2023 pro

Ruby on Rails 7.1 introduces Required Template Arguments w/ Default Values, or Strict Locals. This solves the issue of difficult to reason about dependencies & runtime compilations. In this episode, we look at how Strict Locals can improve the overall maintainability of our Rails partials.

rails 7.1 view

Creating Embedded Iframes

#375 Nov 13, 2022 pro

Similar to Youtube embeds, we will look at creating embedded links to our application so that portions of the application can be embedded. However, there are a lot of security implications and should be done with caution.

rails view turbo

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

Liquid Templates

#358 Jul 17, 2022 pro

Using Stimulus and Liquid, we can create real time previews of the Liquid Template Renderer. Liquid provides a markup language that is a safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.

rails view stimulusjs

Markdown Parser

#341 Mar 20, 2022 pro

Markdown is a great, but unfortunately ActionText doesn't support it. In this episode, we'll look at implementing a simple markdown parser with Stimulus.

rails view markdown stimulusjs javascript

Hotwire Dashboards

#332 Jan 16, 2022 pro

Dashboards can be a source of poor performance and contain much complexity in our applications. Using Hotwire, we can increase the responsiveness of our dashboard with a maintainable approach.

hotwire rails view

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