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Preventing Conflicts with Optimistic Locking
#307 · 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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20:25
@mentions for Users with ActionText in Rails 6
#288 ·

Mentioning Users with an @mention is a super common feature. Trix and ActionText are now part of Rails 6 which means we can very easily add support for tagging users with @mentions and other custom attachments in your applications.
22 7
23:39
Dynamic Nested Forms with Stimulus JS
#283 · Pro

Don't like Cocoon or it's jQuery dependency? We can use Stimulus JS and build dynamic nested forms in Rails with accepts_nested_attributes_for from scratch pretty easily!
44 24
11:01
Autosave Draft Records - Part 2
#282 · 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
7 0
17:20
Autosave Draft Records - Part 1
#281 · 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.
19 2
10:16
Handling First & Last Name with the name_of_person gem
#267 ·

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
20 4
17:32
Reddit style comment thread pagination
#266 · Pro

Adding pagination to our nested comment threads is easier than you might think, plus we'll take a look at a couple different approaches we can use
11 1
6:16
Deleting Comments In Nested Threads
#265 · Pro

Nested comment threads pose a lot of unique challenges. One of these is deleting comments because you can easily lose the child comments or context. We'll take a look at a couple great ways of handling this.
8 4
14:04
Nested Comment Threads in Rails - Part 3
#264 · Pro

Using AJAX, we can submit our comments and have them render onto the page without a page refresh.
15 5
20:43
Nested Comment Threads in Rails - Part 2
#263 · Pro

Implementing polymorphic, reusable comments across models and limiting the nesting allowed for nested comment threads
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