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Static Pages with High Voltage

#12 Aug 10, 2015 free

Creating Static Pages within your Rails application is easy and configurable with High Voltage.

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.

rails model documentation

Invisible Captcha

#10 Aug 2, 2015 free

Part of a good User Experience is making your application easy to use for your users. However, a few bad apples often cause a hinderance to your UX/UI by the addition of Captchas. Learn how to create invisible captchas to protect your forms while delivering a good UX.

rails form security

ActiveJob

#9 Jul 30, 2015 free

ActiveJob is a built in wrapper within Rails 4 for your background processors. By adding this layer to your application, swapping background processors is much easier as you will only be affecting a limited number of files.

rails activejob background processing

Sending Emails

#8 Jul 30, 2015 free

This episode is a prelude to ActiveJob and background processing. Learn how to send emails using an external mail service with Rails.

rails mail

Sitemap Generator

#7 Jul 28, 2015 free

Adding Search Engine Optimization to your site is easy. However, maintaining it can be difficult. This episode shows how to approach the sitemap indexing.

rails seo

attr_encrypted

#6 Jul 26, 2015 free

Protecting your data within your database has never been easier. With attr_encrypted, you can easily add a level of security to your application without much refactoring.

rails security

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?

rails model strings

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.

rails model

ActionCable on Production

#3 Jul 20, 2015 free

Taking a look at ActionCable and switching from Puma to Thin. On server reboot, spin up the ActionCable service.

streaming rails websockets

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