Drifting Ruby

ActiveRecord Tricks

#127 Apr 1, 2018 free

In this episode, we look at what would seemingly be simple queries, but are more complex once you start looking into them. Using built in ActiveRecord functions, we can make the queries readable and easy to work with.

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ActiveRecord Callbacks

#148 Aug 26, 2018 pro

Callbacks are great for quickly tapping into the object life cycle. However, after a model or an application grows, it will become harder to maintain over time. It is better to extract the responsibility and separate the logic.

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Reputation Behavior with Merit

#219 Dec 8, 2019 pro

Merit adds reputation behavior to Rails apps in the form of Badges, Points, and Rankings.

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Active Record Tricks

#347 May 1, 2022 free

In this episode, we look at tips and tricks from read only attributes, inserting and upserting (update or insert) records, toggling booleans, and single table inheritance.

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Soft Delete with Discard

#249 Jul 5, 2020 free

Soft deletes for ActiveRecord done right.

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UUID in Rails with ActiveUUID

#23 Mar 2, 2016 free

Some cases require non-auto incrementing primary keys as well as multiple master writes without id conflicts. With ActiveUUID, we can configure our table's primary key with confidence without added complexity.

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Partial Inserts

#360 Jul 31, 2022 pro

Parsing through the Ruby on Rails CHANGELOG can reveal some interesting features and changes in the framework. In this episode, we look at one of those changes around inserting records into our database.

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Database Transactions

#377 Nov 27, 2022 pro

Transactions are protective blocks where SQL statements are only permanent if they can all succeed as one atomic action. In this episode, we explore ActiveRecord Transactions and how to use them.

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