Common Features in Rails Apps

Sortable Drag and Drop

Sep 19, 2017

Drag and drop sorting is pretty easy to add to any Rails application using jQuery sortable

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Using the Trix Editor plus File Upload Attachments

Oct 03, 2017

Learn how to use the Trix editor for editing wysiwyg content and upload attachments like images using Javascript and Shrine

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Administrate Custom Fields and the Trix Editor

Oct 17, 2017

Use the Trix editor in your admin area using Administrate's custom fields.

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21m

Handling Inbound Email Parsing with Rails

Oct 24, 2017 Pro

Learn how to handle inbound emails in your Rails application and use them to create comments in your app

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Two Factor Authentication With Devise

Using the devise-two-factor gem, we can add an extra layer of security to our apps by having a our users type in a one-time password along with their email and password when they login. We'll be using the Google Authenticator app to login.

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Error Tracking with Errbit

Nov 14, 2017

Track errors in Rails, Sidekiq, etc in production for free using the open source Errbit app and the Airbrake gem

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A/B Split Testing with the Split gem

Nov 21, 2017 Pro

A/B testing (or split testing) is a really common way of testing changes in your app to determine which works best for your users.

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Handle 404s Better Using Rescue_from

Jan 29, 2018 Pro

Rather than serving your user's a 404 dead end, we can use the ActiveSupport rescue_from method to give users search results instead and how to reuse this with ActiveSupport Concerns

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Undo Sending Button like GMail

Feb 21, 2018 Pro

This episode we build an undo button to stop sending notifications out just like you can hit "Undo" inside of GMail

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20m

Auto-detect User Time Zones in Rails

Aug 28, 2018 Pro

Use the jstz Javascript timezone library to help auto-detect and set the user's time zone in your Rails apps

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User Referral Program From Scratch

Aug 14, 2018 Pro

How to build a custom Rails referral or affiliate program from scratch

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How to Add Pagination with Pagy

Sep 06, 2018

Pagy is 29x faster at pagination in their benchmarks which makes it an ultra fast and lightweight pagination library

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Handling First & Last Name with the name_of_person gem

Oct 17, 2018

Deciding whether or not to have separate first and last name fields gets a bit confusing. Basecamp's recently released name_of_person gem shows you exactly how to handle this reliably and also stands as a fantastic example of how to build a concern

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User Avatars with ActiveStorage

Nov 21, 2018

Adding user avatars is pretty easy using Rails' ActiveStorage feature. We'll be using Devise in this example, but this applies to any user authentication system.

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Autosave Draft Records - Part 1

Jan 23, 2019 Pro

Autosaving draft records allows you to make sure users don't lose their work and can easily write draft content without publishing right away. We'll be using Stimulus to build an autosave controller for our form and Draftsman to power the backend.

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Autosave Draft Records - Part 2

Jan 31, 2019 Pro

Creating draft records in your database can be tricky. We'll be using the Draftsman gem to help us create draft versions of our records with our autosave Javascript

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User Onboarding Progress Bar

Mar 22, 2019 Pro

Add onboarding steps for new users and show their completion progress so they can check items off the list, learn how your product works, and get the most out of it.

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Preventing Conflicts with Optimistic Locking

Aug 15, 2019 Pro

When things (users, jobs, etc) attempt to update the same record at the same time, we can often lose changes. Optimistic locking uses a lock version number to warn you about updating stale objects so you can handle that safely.

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Handle Race Conditions with Pessimistic Locking

Aug 22, 2019 Pro

Race conditions can cause problems with data integrity. We can prevent these issues with Pessimistic Locking in ActiveRecord which uses database row-level locking.

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How to use Uppy with ActiveStorage

Jan 27, 2020

Learn how to implement Uppy as a frontend for uploading files via drag and drop, paste, URL, Google Drive, Dropbox, webcam and more to Active Storage in Rails

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Tracking online users with timestamps

Feb 03, 2020

We can use timestamps in our database to track of online users in your Rails

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Realtime Online User Tracking with ActionCable

Feb 10, 2020 Pro

If we want to add realtime tracking of which users are online, we can use active websocket connections through ActionCable to keep track.

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File uploads in Rails with Shrine

Mar 16, 2020

File uploads in Rails with Shrine make it easy to upload and customize how files get uploaded and processed in Rails

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How to use the Pay gem to accept Payments in Rails

Mar 30, 2020

A getting started guide on the Pay gem for accepting payments in Rails

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Google Maps and Google Places Autocomplete API with Rails, Turbolinks, and Stimulus.js

Apr 06, 2020

Learn how to implement Google Maps and the Google Places Autocomplete API in Rails compatible with Turbolinks using StimulusJS

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Multiuser Live Video Chat in Rails

Jun 16, 2020

Using Vonage (previously known as OpenTok), we can add multiuser live video chat to Rails in just 20 minutes. It also supports broadcasting things like webinars, recording videos, and more.

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How to translate and localize apps with Rails Internationalization (18n)

Aug 11, 2020

Translating and localizing your app is important to make it accessible to users around the world. Rails provides internationalization (I18n) tools to make this easier and it's got a lot of cool tricks available.

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How to add Notifications to Rails with Noticed

Aug 17, 2020

Noticed is my new gem for adding notifications to Rails apps. Notifications are really complicated to build and we've done the heavy lifting for you.

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How to Submit Complex Form Data in Ruby on Rails

Sep 21, 2020 Pro

It's a common situation that we need to submit complex data in our forms in our Rails apps. We'll explore how can we transform the simple values browser forms allow and convert them into something Rails can use and transform into Ruby objects.

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Advanced Flash Messages with Buttons & Actions in Rails

Sep 28, 2020 Pro

Flash messages are typically a simple string saying something succeeded or failed. What if we wanted to add buttons like you see in most applications? It's easier than you might think!

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Require Work Email Address on Registration

Oct 28, 2020 Pro

Ever wanted to restrict user registrations to an account's work email or corporate email domains in your Rails app? It's a lot simpler than you might think.

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Bulk Operations in Rails

Nov 04, 2020 Pro

Bulk operations like "delete all", "publish all", etc require a little bit of Javascript and a special controller for handling them.

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Slug History & Redirecting Old Slugs with FriendlyID

Jan 25, 2021 Pro

Updating slugs

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Link To Current Page With Params

Nov 08, 2018

Learn how to link to the current page and add, remove, or modify params in the URL. This is handy for things like search or index pages with filters.

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5m

Sharing Cookies with Subdomains in Rails

Mar 01, 2021

Want to login your user across all subdomains in your Rails app? Here's how.

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Contrasting Colors with YIQ and Helper Tests in Rails

Apr 23, 2021

Ever wondered how to generate contrasting colors in your Rails app? It's easy using the YIQ calculation and we can test it easily with helper tests.

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9m

Email Unsubscribe Links with ActionMailer in Rails

Jun 01, 2021 Pro

Ever wondered how to add the Unsubscribe link to your emails? We can do that using ActinoMailer in Rails with the List-Unsubscribe header and GlobalID

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Dynamic Authorization Roles with Pundit

Jul 27, 2021 Pro

Want users to be able to define different roles for users on their account? You can easily accomplish this with a Role model and Pundit

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How to use Kredis with Rails

Dec 13, 2021

Learn how to use Kredis and see it works by implementing a recent searches unique list

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How to add Search in Rails using Meilisearch

Feb 14, 2022

Meilisearch is an open source search engine written in Rust that integrates nicely with Rails to provide advanced search capabilities similar to ElasticSearch.

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How to add Feature Flags in Rails with the Flipper gem

Feb 25, 2022

Testing out new features or changes in production is something almost every application needs. Flipper is a fantastic tool with a GUI for rolling out these changes easily in your Ruby on Rails app.

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Domain & Subdomain Routing Constraints in Rails

May 09, 2022 Pro

Learn how to apply advanced routing constraints such as domain, subdomain, user authentication, and more. We'll explore how to use custom constraints for routing multi-tenant Rails applications based upon subdomain and domain too.

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How to add a Command Palette to your Ruby on Rails app

May 23, 2022

A command palette is a common feature for power users. Learn how to add a command palette to your Ruby on Rails app using the Ninja Keys web component.

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Polymorphic Selects in Rails using GlobalIDs

Jun 06, 2022 Pro

Using Signed GlobalIDs, we can create polymorphic select boxes in Rails to easily choose a record of any type. This is also secured by using signed global IDs to prevent tampering by malicious users.

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How to use hCaptcha with Ruby on Rails, Turbo, and Stimulus.js

Aug 01, 2022 Pro

hCaptcha is a method to try detecting bots on your website. This episode, we'll walk through how to implement hCaptcha in a way that's compatible with Turbo using Stimulus.js and

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Advanced URL Parsing in Rails with PublicSuffix & Addressable gems

May 15, 2023 Pro

URI in Ruby is powerful, but not complete. We can use the PublicSuffix and Addressable gems to take this a step further for parsing domains and subdomains.

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Liking Posts in Rails with Hotwire

Jun 26, 2023 Pro

Our most popular episode is the Liking Posts episode, so we're revising it and taking advantage of Hotwire to implement the same feature with no custom Javascript

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Rails Components From Scratch

Jul 24, 2023 Pro

Ever wondered how ViewComponent or Phlex works with Rails to build components? Rails has a method called render_in that any object can implement to build custom render functionality like components.

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