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Model Context Protocol

#521 Aug 3, 2025 free

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an API interface for your applications that are formatted in a way that machine learning platforms can interact with them. They can be used to generate AI insights, perform tasks based on user input or other things.

rails ai machine learning api

Dependent Select

#517 Jul 6, 2025 free

In this episode, we explore how to enhance standard select fields using a JavaScript library together with StimulusJS to create more dynamic and responsive dropdowns. The focus is on adding search functionality, handling dependent selections, and integrating smoothly with modern frontend setups.

rails stimulusjs select form

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.

rails view wysiwyg

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.

rails view template

Boolean vs Datetime

#504 Apr 6, 2025 free

In this episode, we look at refactoring an existing application where it uses a boolean to determine if a post is published or unpublished. However, this feature has its limitations, so we change the functionality to work off of a datetime column instead.

rails model business logic

Vibe Coding

#503 Apr 1, 2025 free

Time to stop hiring $100k/year developers and hire an intern for $10k/year and pay $100/year for an AI Agent. The intern doesn't even need to understand the code it is generating and just help guide it to the solution. Sadly, this has to be said because people do not watch the content. This is satire.

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Conditional Queue

#498 Mar 2, 2025 free

In this episode we look at processing background jobs in a way that can conditionally send the work to be processed to different queues. This can be very powerful in situations where you need to process the job in different ways or send requests to different APIs.

rails background processing solid queue

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.

rails view stimulusjs outlets

Skeleton Frames

#490 Jan 5, 2025 free

In this episode, we look at implementing a temporary loader for turbo frame tags to give a visual of data that is loading.

rails view turbo

Kamal Database Backups

#485 Dec 1, 2024 free

In this episode, we look at some precautions we can take with our production environment and setup recurring backups for the database.

rails deployment kamal

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