Search Results for "rails-generators-explained"

Lessons

22m

Custom Rails Generators for API Clients

Mar 13, 2023 Pro

In this episode we will look at how to make and use custom Rails generators to create new API clients.

18m

Contributing To Thor

Sep 15, 2020

Thor is a tool in Ruby that powers command line tools like the Rails generators. In this video, we're fixing an unexpected situation that we found while using Thor.

12m

Open Source Vlog - Rails Generators

Jul 13, 2015

Today we're adding Rails generators as our final piece of the puzzle for Simple_Calendar 2.0

14m

Enhancing the Rails Scaffold Generator with hook_for`

Generators in Rails are in namespaces which allows us to create local generators that use the same name as others. We can use this technique to enhance the Rails scaffold generator by calling it with `hook_for`

The Rails db:system:change command

Apr 03, 2019

Changing the database adapter for a Rails app has always been an annoying, manual change to make. Rails 6.0 introduces the "rails db:system:change" command to make this easier using all the built-in generators for database.yml and more.

20m

How to Contribute to Rails: Adding rich_text field generators

Mar 29, 2019 Pro

Contributing to Rails is everyone's dream. This episode we'll walk through how you can find a bug or feature to add to Rails, how to browse through the source code, add your feature and test it.

15m

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.

18m

Authentication Generator and Registration

Nov 28, 2025 Pro

Next, we need users, sign up, and authentication so we'll use the Rails authentication generator.

13m

Authentication Generator Test Helpers

Jun 09, 2025

The Rails Authentication generator is getting new test helpers. We'll take a look at how to use them with integration tests and how to extend them to work with system tests too.

Routing Constraints with Rails Authentication Generator

Oct 14, 2024 Pro

Devise has a couple handy routing helpers to constrain routes for authenticated users. In this lesson, we'll learn how to do this from scratch by adding routing constraints Rails' built-in authentication generator

16m

How To Add Impersonation To Rails Authentication Generator

Oct 07, 2024

The Rails authentication generator is an awesome new addition with Rails 8 so let's explore how we can customize it to support user impersonation.

14m

Magic Link Authentication with generates_token_for in Rails 7.1

Sep 22, 2023 Pro

Rails 7.1's new generates_token_for method allows us to build password reset and Magic Link login tokens without storing details in the database. Tokens have expirations and can be one-time use so they can't be reused.

12m

Nested Sidebar Layouts with Rails

Apr 13, 2026 Pro

By using multiple levels of nested layouts, we can create easy to maintain views with different sidebars for each area of our application

How to Embed Images with Inline Email Attachments in rails

Apr 06, 2026 Pro

Embedding images in emails with Content IDs lets you avoid privacy protection for email tracking. We can do this with Action Mailer's inline attachments.

Normalize All ActiveRecord Attributes

Feb 18, 2026

Learn how to normalize all ActiveRecord attributes with a quick peak at the Rails source code.

Removing Duplication Using with_options

Mar 09, 2026

Learn how to use Rails' with_options to DRY up duplicated options across method calls and associations, including how to nest them for shared defaults.

11m

Handling Parameter Tampering Safely with Rails

Mar 02, 2026 Pro

Malicious users and bots will always be poking around your applications looking for vulnerabilities, so it's important we safely handle parameters from tampering in Rails.

Clean Up Optional Attributes in Rails with Normalizes

Feb 11, 2026

Optional attributes are empty strings by default, but we can clean these up as nil in Rails using normalizes

11m

Dynamic Partial Rendering

Feb 16, 2026

Learn how to dynamically render Rails partials using standard Rails behavior and model_name.plural when needed to clean up messy if/else conditionals in your views.

28m

oEmbed Provider with Discovery in Rails

Feb 09, 2026 Pro

Lets share embeddable resources in our Rails application with external apps by implementing an oEmbed endpoint and discovery links to make our app an oEmbed provider.