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Benchmark Ruby Code

#262 Oct 4, 2020 free

It's easy to accidentally write slow code in our applications. In this episode, we look at how we can benchmark our code and examples of some methods which are slower than others.

benchmark performance ruby

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Nested Forms from Scratch with StimulusJS

#186 May 5, 2019 free

Using StimulusJS controllers, adding nested forms to a Rails application is easy and unobtrusive. In this episode, we look at an alternative way of creating nested forms without the Cocoon gem.

rails form javascript stimulusjs

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Improving Partial Loading Performance

#145 Aug 5, 2018 free

N+1 queries can make an application slow. Having queries called within views can also slow down an app as well as making it less extendable.

rails performance database

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Benchmarking and Refactoring the content_for View Helper

#90 Jul 23, 2017 free

In a recent blog post, we looked into the content_for view helper to render breadcrumbs. Once we got the feature working, it's time to refactor the feature to lower technical debt.

rails performance benchmark refactor

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Autocomplete with HTML Results

#83 Jun 4, 2017 free

Working with an autocomplete can be very simple. However, things get complicated when you try to use HTML markup in the displayed results. Learn how to use HTML markup within your autocomplete results!

rails view form javascript

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Cropping Images with JCrop

#77 Apr 23, 2017 free

Extend your image upload functionality with JCrop. Learn to redirect the user to a crop page once they have uploaded their image and save versions of the cropped images.

rails form javascript upload

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Javascript Select Form Fields with Chosen

#76 Apr 16, 2017 free

Chosen is a jQuery plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. Learn how to use Chosen in a few different ways in this episode; Rails form builder and Simple Form.

rails form javascript ajax view

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Nested Forms with Cocoon

#71 Mar 12, 2017 free

Using the unobtrusive gem, Cocoon, learn how to handle multiple models in a single form with accepts_nested_attributes_for.

rails form javascript

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Nested Forms from Scratch

#70 Mar 5, 2017 free

Learn how to handle multiple models in a single form with accepts_nested_attributes_for and learn how to add and remove nested records through JavaScript.

rails form javascript

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Searchkick and Elasticsearch

#65 Jan 29, 2017 free

Add full text searching using Searchkick and Elasticsearch. Here I will show the steps involved in adding this search to an existing application and a sample of autocomplete functionality.

rails search performance

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