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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.

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Database Constraints

#519 Jul 20, 2025 pro

In this episode, we have a look at two different scenarios where database level constraints are used to ensure the data integrity of our Rails application. The first scenario is more simple and the second one deals with associated records.

rails database validations

Database Replica

#516 Jun 29, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll look at database connection switching within a Rails application to switch between a primary and replica database. This has many benefits on applications which many many read and write transactions.

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MySQL FULLTEXT Search

#386 Jan 29, 2023 pro

In this episode, we look at implementing full-text search in MySQL. Using some of the built in functions of MySQL, we are able query tables and add weighted results.

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Infrastructure Migration

#374 Nov 6, 2022 free

For various reasons, we may decide to move our services off of one platform onto another. This could be due to pricing, uptime or other reasons. In this episode, we look at migrating a Ruby on Rails application and database from Heroku to Fly.

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Multiple Databases

#353 Jun 12, 2022 pro

As an application grows in popularity and usage you'll need to scale the application to support your new users and their data. One way in which your application may need to scale is on the database level. In this episode, we look at reading from a replica database while writing to a primary database. We also look at structuring our application top support multiple databases; each containing their own schema.

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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.

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Downloading Cloud Database

#368 Sep 25, 2022 pro

Sometimes we need to pull down our staging database that is hosted in the cloud. This can be a tedious task as there could be many blockers that add complications in pulling down this data.

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