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Command Palette

#572 Jul 19, 2026 pro

In this episode, we'll explore the power of combining a Stimulus Controller and Turbo Frame Tags to create a seamless user interface. We'll use the example of keyboard shortcuts to launch a search modal to query records.

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Recover Form Data

#571 Jul 12, 2026 pro

In this episode, we look at creating a reusable Stimulus Controller that will allow us to recover a filled out form from out local storage.

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Custom Turbo Stream Action Animation

#565 May 31, 2026 pro

In this episode, we'll look at improving our UX by adding a custom Turbo Stream action to give some animation to deleted records.

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Debounce

#550 Feb 22, 2026 pro

Demonstrate how to implement a debounced live search in a Rails application using Stimulus and Turbo, improving UX by reducing unnecessary server requests.

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Fizzy JS Patterns

#540 Dec 14, 2025 pro

In this episode, we look at the open source project Fizzy and the Javascript patterns used. We will look at various patterns used and some thoughts of improvement.

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Text to Speech

#474 Sep 15, 2024 pro

In this episode, we look at implementing text-to-speech functionality using Ruby on Rails without third-party libraries. We'll discuss some nuances and various workarounds to address common issues.

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Fart

#450 Apr 1, 2024 free

Ever wonder how you could add audio to interactions on a website. In this episode, we'll explore adding sounds whenever someone clicks on a link or button.

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Bulk Updates

#447 Mar 17, 2024 pro

Updating multiple records in the UI of a Rails app could be tricky. In this episode, we'll look at updating multiple records at the same time from scratch. We'll create a Stimulus controller to handle some of the front end functionality.

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Hotkeys

#431 Dec 3, 2023 free

Keyboard shortcuts, or Hotkeys, can provide a great experience to users of an application. In this episode, we will use a stimulus wrapper around this library to use within our Ruby on Rails application.

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Forecasting Data

#416 Aug 27, 2023 pro

In this episode, we will look at a date range of data and build predictions of what future values will be. However, we won't be reaching for any 3rd party APIs, but instead use statistical models to learn from our data to predict the future dates. We'll also display out our data on a table and plot it to a graph.

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