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Kamal Registry

#535 Nov 9, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll look at the two of my favorite changes in the recent Kamal releases. We'll explore some of the flows that the new registry uses and some things to be aware of.

rails kamal deployment

Failover Requests

#534 Nov 2, 2025 free

In this episode, we look at creating a failover mechanism for API requests. This can be a handy trick in situations where you want to add fault tolerance to an API request. We'll use the example of the Ollama Cloud as a failover to a locally hosted instance of Ollama.

rails ai api

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

Pull to Refresh

#532 Oct 19, 2025 pro

When PWA websites are installed (specifically on iOS) there is some functionality lost to refresh the page. In this episode, we explore in how to restore this functionality.

rails pwa stimulusjs

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

Omarchy

#530 Oct 5, 2025 free

Omarchy is an omakase distribution based on Arch Linux and the tiling window manager Hyprland. It ships with just about everything a modern software developer needs to be productive immediately.

rails development

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

#528 Sep 21, 2025 pro

In this episode, we continue off of Episode #499 and implement a feature where we can search and consume sections of text for text generation. This has many benefits and some nuances that we'll explore in this episode.

rails llm artificial intelligence

Lexxy

#527 Sep 14, 2025 pro

In this episode, we look at moving from Trix to Lexxy in our Rails application using ActionText. The transition isn't completely seamless, but overall works very well.

rails action text trix lexxy

RubyMine

#526 Sep 7, 2025 free

I haven't used RubyMine in several years, but a recent announcement from JetBrains have now opened up access for free with non-commercial products. In this episode, I'm taking a fresh look at RubyMine after years of not using it.

rails ide editor

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