Drifting Ruby

Gem in a Box

#289 Mar 28, 2021 pro

There's many benefits to running your own cache and proxy for Ruby gems. In this episode, we look at provisioning, configuring our system and projects to use a Gem in a Box instance.

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Avatars

#276 Dec 27, 2020 pro

Learn how to build avatars with initials and conditionally prefer Gravatar images if they exist.

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Ruby on Docker

#274 Dec 20, 2020 pro

Learn to use Docker to manage our Ruby interpreter and use it to template new Rails applications.

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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.

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Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit

#253 Aug 2, 2020 free

First look at the upcoming Apple Silicon processor and what it will be like for us Ruby Developers. Honestly, I wish that it was a better experience. However, with macOS Big Sur being beta and the DTK not being the final consumer hardware, there's still hope yet.

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Contributing to a Gem

#240 May 3, 2020 free

So, you've been using a gem for some time and you've either discovered that the gem isn't working correctly or that you want to start contributing to the gem itself. Sometimes this can be an overwhelming task. In this episode, we look at the basic processes for contributing to a gem.

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Emojis from Scratch

#227 Feb 2, 2020 free

In this episode, we look at attaching emojis to our comments model, allowing them to fill in some emotional cues.

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Creating a Rack Middleware

#215 Nov 10, 2019 pro

Rack provides a minimal, modular, and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. In this episode, we create and insert our own Rack Middleware into a Rails 6 application.

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Polling with StimulusJS

#211 Oct 13, 2019 pro

Sometimes an old techniques with a modern twist can not only solve the problems at hand, but can also simplify the application's architecture.

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Ruby on Rails Tips and Tricks

#210 Oct 6, 2019 free

Ruby and Ruby on Rails tricks from, dot files, operators, bundling, StimulusJS and more.

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