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Campfire Deploy with Kamal

#440 Jan 28, 2024 pro

In this episode, we look at setting up our Campfire instance to be deployable with Kamal instead of the Once CLI. This has a few benefits over the standard deployment mechanism if you are going to be tweaking and making your own changes to the Campfire code. We'll also look at taking in the incoming changes from Once to rebase into our Kamal setup.

rails campfire deployment kamal

Exploring Campfire

#439 Jan 24, 2024 free

In this episode, we explore the Campfire code from 37signals' Once product line. We'll install the product and grab the code base to get it up and running on our development environment.

rails campfire development

Digital Ocean App Platform

#434 Dec 24, 2023 pro

Fly, AWS App Runner, Render and Heroku are great choices for Platform as a Service solutions, but there's Digital Ocean's App Platform. In this episode we'll look at deploying a Rails 7.1 application to this Digital Ocean PaaS.

rails deployment

Detect Spam with AI

#427 Nov 5, 2023 free

We can create a small python service that uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to detect if a message is spam or not. Using this service, we can tie it into our Rails application so that any comment created will be evaluated for being spam or not. We explore a few different routes on handling any messages flagged as spam.

rails ai machine learning background processing artificial intelligence

Kamal in GitHub Actions

#425 Oct 22, 2023 pro

Kamal is a great utility for deploying your application to a server. It can handle many different kinds of use cases. However, there is some disconnect on how to use it within a CI/CD pipeline. In this episode, we'll look at deploying a Rails 7.1 application with SQLite to a virtual machine using Kamal within GitHub Actions.

rails 7.1 deploy deployment ci/cd

Dot Files

#415 Aug 20, 2023 pro

Dot files are important for customizing our development experience and in this episode, we'll have a look at the .zshrc, .gemrc, .railsrc, and .irbrc dot files and how we can customize them to make our development life easier.

ruby rails development terminal

Meilisearch

#402 May 21, 2023 pro

Meilisearch is a flexible and powerful user-focused search engine that can be added to any website or application. In this episode, we'll integrate Meilisearch into our application.

rails search

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

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

Magic Links

#371 Oct 16, 2022 pro

Magic Links is a passwordless authentication method where you receive a emailed link to proceed with signing in. In this episode, we look at swapping out a lot of the core functionalities of Devise with Magic Links as well as alternatives for using this methodology without Devise.

rails authentication devise

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