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Chat Agent

#501 Mar 23, 2025 pro

In this episode, we lay down the ground work to have a chat agent in our Rails application. We'll be creating this from complete scratch and set it up in a way that you can have responses generated however you want.

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Confetti

#500 Mar 16, 2025 pro

In celebration of Episode #500, we'll be looking at adding confetti to our Rails application. While seemingly a bit silly, this can add a bit of flare to your application when used properly.

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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

Password Strength

#493 Jan 26, 2025 pro

In this episode, we will use the Rails 8 authentication generator and add a stimulus controller to show the strength of a password when signing up for an account. This functionality will work with Devise, ActionAuth and other authentication solutions as well.

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Refreshing Turbo Frames

#492 Jan 19, 2025 pro

In this episode, we discuss several different approaches to refreshing data within Turbo Frame Tags and pick the approach that will be most universal. We'll also look at some of the downsides of other approaches.

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Hotwire Spark

#489 Dec 29, 2024 pro

A new library has been released for hot reloading Ruby on Rails applications. This isn't a new idea, but one that is designed to work natively and unobtrusively with Importmaps based Rails apps. In this episode, we'll look at both a Importmap application and one using Jsbundling.

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Stimulus Action:Options

#487 Dec 15, 2024 pro

In this episode, we explore some of the lesser used options with Stimulus Actions. We'll discuss some nuances with them and the best approach when documenting the code.

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Browser LLMs

#486 Dec 8, 2024 pro

In this episode, we look at leveraging the end user's hardware and WebGPU to run large language models directly in the user's browser.

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Text to Speech

#474 Sep 15, 2024 pro

In this episode, we look at implementing text-to-speech functionality using Ruby on Rails without third-party libraries. We'll discuss some nuances and various workarounds to address common issues.

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Dependent Fields with Hotwire

#472 Sep 1, 2024 free

Large forms can be overwhelming to fill out, especially if not all of the fields are required. In this episode, we'll look at creating a stimulus controller to conditionally display fields based on the input of another field.

rails hotwire form stimulusjs

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