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Creating Health Checks

#208 Sep 22, 2019 pro

Health Checks are an important part of monitoring an application's health. However, a simple status response may not be sufficient. In this episode, we look at creating a health check which monitors some dependencies of a Rails application.

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Client Side Validation with StimulusJS

#207 Sep 15, 2019 pro

Give clients quick feedback on form validation errors with ValidateJS and StimulusJS.

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Creating and Publishing a Stimulus Controller Library

#206 Sep 8, 2019 pro

In this episode, we create a public StimulusJS Controller and publish it to NPM to that it can be shared and reused in other applications.

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Push Notifications with ActionCable

#205 Sep 1, 2019 free

In this episode, we look into using Push Notifications within our Rails application and then using ActionCable to broadcast Push Notifications to the user.

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AWS Security Groups and Deploying Rails 6 to Beanstalk

#203 Aug 18, 2019 pro

Back in Episode #106, we configured and deployed to a very simple AWS Beanstalk environment. However, in this episode, we take things a bit further and explore security groups, an existing database and redis service. Also, there are a few changes that we have to do in order to get Rails 6 working within Beanstalk.

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SweetAlerts in Rails 6

#202 Aug 11, 2019 pro

Sometimes adding a javascript library can be difficult because either it's not a straightforward process or some of the blog articles are either outdated or don't work properly. In this episode, we look at adding SweetAlerts into a Rails 6 application with Webpacker.

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Working with Large Data

#201 Aug 4, 2019 free

When database tables get large, things can slow down significantly. In this episode, we look at a few things which helps keep databases performant and the client side responsive.

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ViewComponent in Rails

#196 Jun 30, 2019 pro

The ViewComponent library will provide a new way for creating reusable and testable view components.

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Thredded Forum

#195 Jun 23, 2019 pro

Thredded is a Rails 4.2+ forum/messageboard engine. Its goal is to be as simple and feature rich as possible.

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Environment Specific Encrypted Credentials in Rails 5.2

#193 Jun 16, 2019 pro

A more simplief and better retake of Episode #123 where we look at the upcoming Rails 6 changes with encrypted credentials and how to apply it to a Rails 5.2 application.

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