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Drifting Ruby Screencasts

Every week you will be treated to a new Drifting Ruby episode featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails, the popular web development framework. These screencasts are short and focus on one technique so you can quickly move on to applying it to your own project. The topics are geared toward the intermediate Rails developer, but beginners and experts will get something out of it as well.

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Last Episode Date: 5 January 2025

Total Episodes: 10

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5 January 2025
Skeleton Frames

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

13 min
1 December 2024
Kamal Database Backups

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

13 min
3 November 2024
Kamal Kitchen Sink

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.

31 min
6 October 2024
Kamal 2

In this episode we look at deploying a Rails 8 beta application to a Digital Ocean droplet. We'll also look at a scenario of deploying Action Cable broadcasts and another with recurring background jobs.

22 min
1 September 2024
Dependent Fields with Hotwire

Large forms can be overwhelming to fill out, especially if not all of the fields are required. In this episode, we'll look at creating a stimulus controller to conditionally display fields based on the input of another field.

20 min
4 August 2024
Processing Large Jobs

In this episode, we will upload a CSV file but need to pass it into a background job. This can prove to be difficult based on the hosting infrastructure so we'll explore some mechanisms to work around them. We'll also look to optimize Solid Queue to handle the large number of jobs.

20 min
7 July 2024
Tracking Writebook Changes

In this episode, we look at setting up a mechanism to track the changes from an externally developed product. We'll also discuss branching strategies and how to develop your own features on top of Writebook.

15 min
2 June 2024
Hotwire Combobox

In this episode, we tackle the issue of slow-loading dropdowns with a high volume of options by implementing an asynchronous select using the Hotwire Combobox library.

13 min
5 May 2024
Tips and Tricks

In this episode, we look at various tricks in Ruby on Rails as well as some other neat tricks.

9 min
7 April 2024
Windows and WSL

In this episode, we'll look at setting up a fresh Windows 11 environment for Ruby on Rails development. We'll be looking at a few different tricks that makes managing a Windows environment much easier.

16 min
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