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Checking Domain Expirations With RDAP

Nov 24, 2025 Pro

RDAP is a protocol we can use to check the expiration of domains. This will be the foundation of the SaaS product we're building.

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Extracting Reusable Base Classes In Ruby

Feb 27, 2023 Pro

If you're building something with shared functionality, extracting a base class can be helpful to create a shared place each class can inherit from. We'll explore how to do this for our API clients and one of the tricky things about accessing constants.

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API HTTP Requests using Faraday

Aug 19, 2021

The first step in building an API wrapper Rubygem is building your HTTP client. We're going to use Faraday as our HTTP client and get it setup with authentication.

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Domain Monitor SaaS Introduction

Nov 29, 2025

A peek into the Domain Monitor SaaS product that we'll be building in this series with Rails, Stripe, Solid Queue, and Kamal.

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Morse Code with Ruby - Part 1

Sep 01, 2025 Pro

In this lesson, we will start building a Ruby project to translate text to morse code and vice versa.

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Install and Running Whisper.cpp from Ruby

Apr 03, 2024 Pro

Whisper.cpp is an open source C/C++ port of OpenAI Whisper that we can use with Ruby for transcribing our videos. We'll also look at how ActiveStorage runs executables like ffmpeg to see how it works behind the scenes just like with what we're building.

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Web Scraper UI Controllers & Actions

Feb 28, 2024 Pro

Building the controllers and actions for our Web Scrapper application lets us interact with Rails to add and remove Pages and view the results as they're generated.

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Components with Phlex in Rails

Feb 05, 2024

Adam McCrea walks through using Phlex to build components for views in your Rails applications. Phlex is a Ruby gem for building fast object-oriented HTML and SVG components using Ruby constructs: methods, keyword arguments and blocks.

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Designing Database Models for a Password Manager

May 30, 2023 Pro

Our first step in building any application is designing what database models we will need to store our data.

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Adding a New Blog Post Action

Apr 03, 2023

We now want to create new Blog Posts in our Rails app, not directly in the database. To do this, we're going to start by building a new action and form for inputting data for our Rails model.

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Building Utilities with Ruby Scripts

Dec 19, 2022

In this episode, we look at how to get started making utility programs with Ruby similar to the built in cat and grep programs.

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Your First Ruby Gem Part 2

Nov 07, 2022

In this follow-up episode on building your first Ruby gem, we look at setting up version control, adding a basic testing setup, and adding a basic GitHub action for a CI (continuous integration) setup. With these pieces in place, we should have a solid fo

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Building has_one from has_many Associations

May 16, 2022

In this video, we will take a look at how to use a few association declaration options to build a couple of has_one associations off of a has_many association in Rails.

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Setting up Customer Support models with Hotwire

Apr 28, 2021

In part 1, we're going to setup our Rails application, our models, and connect Hotwire so we can dig into building ActionMailbox next.

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Improving the Rails Route Generator

Oct 20, 2020 Pro

The Rails generator helpers have always been a little lacking in flexibility. While building the Madmin gem, I ran into an issue with the route generator and decided to take the extra time to contribute back to Rails.

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How to Test Gem Dependencies with Appraisal

Sep 03, 2020

Appraisal lets us test our code against different versions of dependencies. This is fantastic if you're building Rubygems that must work with multiple versions of Rails or other dependencies

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Designing & Building the Noticed gem

Aug 24, 2020 Pro

Building a gem can be complicated. Often times you're writing abstract, meta code so it can be used flexibly in situations you'll never imagine. We'll talk about the architecture and design of the noticed gem and how it all works.

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Building AnimatedGif.me Part 3

Mar 10, 2020

This series walks through the entire process of building a Ruby on Rails app from start to finish. We'll be building AnimatedGif.me for saving and sharing animated gifs as easily as possible.

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Building AnimatedGif.me Part 2

Mar 02, 2020

This series walks through the entire process of building a Ruby on Rails app from start to finish. We'll be building AnimatedGif.me for saving and sharing animated gifs as easily as possible.

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Building AnimatedGif.me Part 1

Feb 24, 2020

This series walks through the entire process of building a Ruby on Rails app from start to finish. We'll be building AnimatedGif.me for saving and sharing animated gifs as easily as possible.

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Looking for Rails work? / Hiring Rails developers?

Similar to the Hacker News thread, I thought we might start up a thread for anyone looking to hire a Ruby / Rails freelancer or if you're a freelancer looking for work. *Please lead with either SE...

Heroku deployment failing

I am trying to deploy this app to heroku. i get this error with the precompiling asset pipeline. I tried removing jquery from my Gem file but the error persists. log: ... remote: Installing...

Hassanelashram posted February 1, 2020 7:09pm

Native Mobile Options

I have a Rails 4 app that is fully responsive and works good on the mobile browser. However, I want to make native apps for it for iOS and Android. What are some recommended steps? Is Phonegap a ...

Our First API (Example) - GoRails

Chris, at 10:33, when you open /api/v1/locations/1.json in your browser, I see that you can alternate between raw and parsed views of the json. Which plugin are you using for this?

Someone replied July 18, 2017 3:18pm

Is Ruby on Rails still relevant in 2023 ?

If yes ,please share your thoughts why it is relevant ?

DanteKulas replied January 9, 2024 11:39am

Pattern for Managing Third Party Integrations

I'm building a small internal app that is essentially glue between several open APIs. Namely, QuickBooks, G Suite, Stripe, and Twilio. Authorizing these third party integrations, maintaining toke...

William Kennedy replied January 8, 2022 7:25pm

Best way to measure distance between current user's location and place location?

I'm building an app similar to Yelp. The user should have a current location (taken automatically) and a chosen location (defaulted to current location). Each place should also have a location. I w...

Matias Fernandez replied April 5, 2016 9:12pm

Create a filterable location based database with Google Maps API?

I’m not sure exactly how to word the functionality of what I’m trying to build but let to give it a shot here to see if someone has built or seen something similar I’m working on a web app that wi...

ammys09 replied March 31, 2022 6:51pm

How would I go about building a price-comparison engine with Rails

Hey guys, I just started a project (based off of Jumpstart Pro). One of its core features should be a price comparison: I'd like the app to fetch prices across different websites/webshops several ...

karatepicke posted August 17, 2020 8:17am

I am trying to build an application that will display routes on a map

Hi there, I am completely new to Ruby, and am trying to understand a way of building an application to display routes on a map, using this API: http://wiki.itsfactory.fi/index.php/Journeys_API. ...

Chris Oliver replied August 19, 2019 9:31pm

How to build a chat app with Ruby on Rails

I recently put together a chat build tutorial where strangers can connect with each other via advanced group chats. I wanted to run it here and see if there's any suggestion or feedback to make it ...

Jacqueline Lavender replied November 20, 2024 1:17am

How do Rails developers work with JS developers on a project?

Hi there! I've been the only developer at my workplace for a while now and I've been coding in Rails, primarily. I don't have any formal qualifications in development, but I've been self-learning ...

Chris Oliver replied March 20, 2019 10:38am

Few Big Models or Many Smaller Namspaced models?

Anyone able to give suggestions on model design? I'm building an app to help small businesses get more reviews across the web. Concept is simple, user registers a business, and their businesses loc...

Rich Smith replied May 24, 2018 2:37pm

Is a Rails 5/react.js app only using GraphQL feasible?

I'm building a new app: rails 5 for the backend, react.js (actually Gatsby) for the frontend. Is it possible/desirable to do it all using GraphQL and skip REST endpoints entirely?

Jacob Warren replied March 6, 2018 1:12am

Group Chat with ActionCable: Part 3 Discussion

Chris,Would it be possible to have one on Map APIs like mapbox or google maps api please :)Omar

Richard Ludwig replied May 28, 2020 5:35pm

Chartkick and impressionist gem render not working

**EDIT 1** Here is a screenshot of the [current graph](https://gyazo.com/6dfa1edbfe15a5f8f80f424c681ff690) **Original Post** I'm using both chartkick and the impressionist gem and I seem to be r...

Ben John Bagley replied December 9, 2017 10:08pm

Live Stream Video w/ Rails

Hey Chris could you do a video on live streaming video with ActionCable or integrating it with an gem? Thanks!

Can products like APPSUMO or Sumome be built using rails?

So say i wanna build a website widget where people can install it with a few lines of codes. And in that widget users are able to sign up for my website or see certain information that's on my webs...

Masud Hossain replied October 4, 2016 12:06am

Screencast Request: iOS / Android Adapter Example

Hey Chris -- Thanks for all the great content. I've been enjoying it for quite awhile; you do a great job, really. I'd love to see a short tutorial on how to take a rails app or a portion of a ra...

Mark Radford replied February 22, 2017 11:14pm

Handle "delayed" response from external API

I have been following the series on building a gem using Faraday against the Vultr API and have started building my own version of it against one of the Azure dataplane API's. This works a little b...

iram replied August 17, 2022 8:02am

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