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Speeding Up Requests

#322 Nov 7, 2021 free

In this episode, we look at several issues around pagination and different kinds of querying that could affect performance when working with large datasets.

performance rails search pagination

bin/functions

#271 Nov 29, 2020 pro

We look into the way I streamline the management of my deployments, SSH and status of applications. This makes it easier to switch between projects without having to refer to notes of how each application should deploy.

deployment rails

Database Encoding

#264 Oct 18, 2020 pro

In this episode, we look at the encoding and some problems that an older Ruby on Rails application may face when it comes to storing emojis and how to fix them.

database rails

Cool Things in Fizzy

#539 Dec 7, 2025 free

In this episode, we look deploying Fizzy to a server and look at some of the notable practices found in the code.

rails

Kamal Database Backups

#485 Dec 1, 2024 free

In this episode, we look at some precautions we can take with our production environment and setup recurring backups for the database.

rails deployment kamal

HAProxy

#484 Nov 24, 2024 pro

In this episode, we explore deploying HAProxy, a high performant load balancer, with Kamal. We'll look at various scenarios where it is a great fit and other scenarios where you'd want to avoid HAProxy.

rails kamal infrastructure

Processing Large Jobs

#468 Aug 4, 2024 free

In this episode, we will upload a CSV file but need to pass it into a background job. This can prove to be difficult based on the hosting infrastructure so we'll explore some mechanisms to work around them. We'll also look to optimize Solid Queue to handle the large number of jobs.

rails solid queue background processing active storage

Dev Containers

#454 Apr 28, 2024 pro

In a later Rails release, dev container configurations will be provided by default. In this episode, we will explore how to use dev containers as well as modifying them to fit our application's needs.

rails development docker

Windows and WSL

#451 Apr 7, 2024 free

In this episode, we'll look at setting up a fresh Windows 11 environment for Ruby on Rails development. We'll be looking at a few different tricks that makes managing a Windows environment much easier.

rails windows wsl 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

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