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External Databases

#529 Sep 28, 2025 pro

Sometimes, we're building an integration to a third party product that doesn't expose any APIs, but we do have access to the database itself. In this episode, we'll look at connecting to external databases and look into some of the considerations when doing so to maintain data integrity.

rails database

Database Constraints

#519 Jul 20, 2025 pro

In this episode, we have a look at two different scenarios where database level constraints are used to ensure the data integrity of our Rails application. The first scenario is more simple and the second one deals with associated records.

rails database validations

Database Replica

#516 Jun 29, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll look at database connection switching within a Rails application to switch between a primary and replica database. This has many benefits on applications which many many read and write transactions.

rails database docker

Normalizes

#495 Feb 9, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll have a look at various approaches to data consistency and why it could be important to normalize the data. We'll look at and old approach and a more current one along with the caveats associated with each of them.

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Working with YAML

#429 Nov 19, 2023 pro

In this episode, we look at a few different ways that we can interact with YAML files in our Ruby on Rails application; using them for loading configurations and also seeding data.

rails data

MySQL FULLTEXT Search

#386 Jan 29, 2023 pro

In this episode, we look at implementing full-text search in MySQL. Using some of the built in functions of MySQL, we are able query tables and add weighted results.

rails database mysql search

Database Transactions

#377 Nov 27, 2022 pro

Transactions are protective blocks where SQL statements are only permanent if they can all succeed as one atomic action. In this episode, we explore ActiveRecord Transactions and how to use them.

rails activerecord database

Infrastructure Migration

#374 Nov 6, 2022 free

For various reasons, we may decide to move our services off of one platform onto another. This could be due to pricing, uptime or other reasons. In this episode, we look at migrating a Ruby on Rails application and database from Heroku to Fly.

rails infrastructure database migration

Searching Multiple Models

#370 Oct 9, 2022 pro

In this episode, we look at creating a simple and maintainable way to search multiple models. As our application grows and the needs change, other avenues can be explored, but it's important to not prematurely optimize things before they're actually required.

rails search database model

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

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