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Active Job Continuations

#533 Oct 26, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll explore a new Rails 8.1 feature that allows background jobs to "pick up where they left off." We'll look at how the new Continuations feature helps prevent long-running jobs from being lost during deployments, and some important nuances to keep in mind when using it.

rails activejob

Kamal Logs Upload

#531 Oct 12, 2025 pro

In this episode, we look at shipping application logs via the Kamal Hooks to a webhook endpoint. We'll use Discord as the final log storage.

rails deploy kamal

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

Log Bench

#515 Jun 22, 2025 pro

Tailing logs can be rather annoying in a development environment when looking for a specific request. In this episode, we're going to explore the Log Bench gem and the value it adds to our development experience.

rails development

Kamal 2 in Github Actions

#513 Jun 8, 2025 pro

In this episode we take a look at Github Actions again, but with Kamal 2. Not too much has changed, but there are some differences in the approach on caching and a few other things that have changed since the initial release of Kamal.

rails kamal deploy deployment

Kamal Maintenance Mode

#510 May 18, 2025 pro

In Kamal 2.6.0, a new feature was released that allowed an app to switch between live mode and maintenance mode. In this episode, we'll explore the new feature and how it works.

rails deployment

Embeddings

#499 Mar 9, 2025 pro

In this episode, we explore embeddings and how they improve search and recommendations by converting text into numerical vectors. We'll set up a Rails 8 app with PostgreSQL + PG Vector, generate embeddings, and perform similarity searches.

rails model ai machine learning search

Development Approach

#497 Feb 23, 2025 pro

Working with 3rd party integrations can be time consuming, complicated and we can take many different approaches when creating a proof of concept. In this episode, we're going to look at creating a development environment with Jupyter Notebooks so that we can iterate fast and remove a lot of the complexities of our application.

rails development api

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