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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

Solid Queue

#438 Jan 21, 2024 pro

Solid Queue is a DB-based queuing backend for Active Job, designed with simplicity and performance in mind. In this episode, we'll look at exploring Solid Queue and and option for a graphical interface to view the jobs.

rails background processing activejob

Action Auth

#437 Jan 14, 2024 pro

With Rails 7.1 came a bunch of new features around token generation and with this release, I've been working on a new authentication solution that provides the basic requirements of authentication out of the box, but also has advanced features like Passkeys that are easy to implement and use.

rails 7.1 authentication

Turbo 8

#436 Jan 7, 2024 free

With Turbo 8 comes a lot of new features and in this episode, we'll explore an upgrading a blog post with comments to add in the new functionality.

rails turbo hotwire

Counter Culture

#435 Dec 31, 2023 pro

The provided ActiveRecord counter caching mechanism provides some great basic functionality, but quickly becomes insufficient if you need more complex totaling or summing of records. In this episode, we'll look at implementing the counter_culture gem to gain extra functionality.

rails model

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

Custom Dashboard - Part 2

#433 Dec 17, 2023 pro

In this episode, we continue on from the previous episode where we finish up the dashboard and configure the views with Turbo Frame Tags.

rails hotwire stimulusjs turbo

Custom Dashboard - Part 1

#432 Dec 10, 2023 pro

In this episode, we'll look at creating the initial management for a customizable dashboard. Users can add and arrange widgets to their dashboard.

rails hotwire stimulusjs

Hotkeys

#431 Dec 3, 2023 free

Keyboard shortcuts, or Hotkeys, can provide a great experience to users of an application. In this episode, we will use a stimulus wrapper around this library to use within our Ruby on Rails application.

rails stimulusjs javascript

Rails Organization

#430 Nov 26, 2023 pro

In this episode, we look at refactoring a model with a few different approaches; modules, classes and concerns. We'll explore each implementation and when I'd use one over the other.

rails organization model

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