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Easily add Markdown support to your Rails applications with Marksmith. This isn't a drop-in replacement to ActionText, but can be used with text or blob columns. Marksmith integrates easily with ActiveStorage for handling file uploads. In this episode, we'll explore setting up Marksmith and some best practices.…

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Scaffold Templates 13:42

7 weeks ago13:42

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In this episode, we explore using the scaffold generator and modifying the templates to simplify the creation of consistent, Tailwind CSS-styled views and controllers in a Rails application, saving time when prototyping and building new features.

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Boolean vs Datetime 13:33

11 weeks ago13:33

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In this episode, we look at refactoring an existing application where it uses a boolean to determine if a post is published or unpublished. However, this feature has its limitations, so we change the functionality to work off of a datetime column instead.

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Vibe Coding 17:28

12 weeks ago17:28

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Time to stop hiring $100k/year developers and hire an intern for $10k/year and pay $100/year for an AI Agent. The intern doesn't even need to understand the code it is generating and just help guide it to the solution. Sadly, this has to be said because people do not watch the content. This is satire.…

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Conditional Queue 18:23

16 weeks ago18:23

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In this episode we look at processing background jobs in a way that can conditionally send the work to be processed to different queues. This can be very powerful in situations where you need to process the job in different ways or send requests to different APIs.

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Outlets and Permanent Tags 13:45

20 weeks ago13:45

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In this episode, we'll explore how we can add a "global" music player that will persist across different pages. Our approach will be unobtrusive and implemented in a maintainable way.

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Skeleton Frames 13:24

24 weeks ago13:24

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In this episode, we look at implementing a temporary loader for turbo frame tags to give a visual of data that is loading.

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Kamal Database Backups 13:23

29 weeks ago13:23

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In this episode, we look at some precautions we can take with our production environment and setup recurring backups for the database.

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Kamal Kitchen Sink 31:57

33 weeks ago31:57

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In this episode, we look at creating an entire infrastructure (proxy, load balancer, app servers, worker servers, database server, and a storage server) on our own hardware use Kamal to provision and deploy our Ruby on Rails application.

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Kamal 2 22:55

37 weeks ago22:55