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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.

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Model Context Protocol

#521 Aug 3, 2025 free

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an API interface for your applications that are formatted in a way that machine learning platforms can interact with them. They can be used to generate AI insights, perform tasks based on user input or other things.

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Label Maker with Ruby

#343 Apr 3, 2022 free

Learn how to turn your tweets into physical printouts on a label maker via the Cups/PPD API. It's a silly concept, but can have some great real world application with interfacing with printers.

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Google Maps API with StimulusJS

#236 Apr 5, 2020 free

Add unobtrusive maps to your application using StimulusJS to tie in Google Maps Javascript API and Places API.

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Creating a Simple Slack Bot

#162 Dec 2, 2018 free

Slack is a great application to keep in contact with friends, coworkers and a community. With bots, its capabilities are endless. In this episode, learn how to create a Slack Bot to interact with.

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Service Objects for API Interactions with Twilio

#154 Oct 7, 2018 free

In this episode, learn how to extract the interactions with an external API into a service object so that code is isolated and interchangeable.

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Custom Error Pages with Slack Notification

#91 Jul 30, 2017 free

Learn to use custom error pages to provide a similar look to your application. Get notified on Slack as errors occur to act on them before they're reported.

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Plotting Points on a Map from Scratch

#86 Jun 25, 2017 free

Using the Google Maps Javascript API, learn how to plot markers onto a map. Load markers and info windows through AJAX calls to your Rails JSON API.

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Geocoding, Places and Maps

#84 Jun 11, 2017 free

Using the Geocoder gem and Google APIs, learn how to add some geolocation functionality to your application.

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Rails API - Throttling with Rack::Attack

#52 Oct 30, 2016 free

Save expensive calculation time using Rack::Attack, we will learn how to limit requests coming into our application. This gem not only limits requests, but can be used to blacklist or whitelist users as well.

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