ActiveRecord Episodes

Handling First & Last Name with the name_of_person gem

New! · #267 · Oct 17, 2018 · 9

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

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Reddit style comment thread pagination

Pro · #266 · Oct 08, 2018 · 6

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

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Deleting Comments In Nested Threads

Pro · #265 · Oct 02, 2018 · 4

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.

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Nested Comment Threads in Rails - Part 3

Pro · #264 · Sep 26, 2018 · 7

Using AJAX, we can submit our comments and have them render onto the page without a page refresh.

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Nested Comment Threads in Rails - Part 2

Pro · #263 · Sep 18, 2018 · 14

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

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Nested Comment Threads in Rails - Part 1

Pro · #262 · Sep 12, 2018 · 18

How to build nested comments and threads in Ruby on Rails

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Charts with Chartkick and Groupdate

#194 · Jun 19, 2017 · 31

Add various types of charts to your Rails app with Chartkick and use Groupdate to make easy group queries in SQL

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Preferences & Settings with ActiveRecord::Store

Pro · #191 · May 31, 2017 · 34

Use ActiveRecord::Store and ActiveRecord-TypedStore to save user preferences and settings to a single column in the database

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ActiveRecord Explain

#173 · Feb 16, 2017 · 30

Learn how to use ActiveRecord Explain to analyze your SQL queries generated by ActiveRecord

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Atomic Updates And Performance with ActiveRecord Transactions

Pro · #171 · Feb 06, 2017 · 26

Learn how to use ActiveRecord Transactions to create atomic updates across multiple records and to improve the speed of bulk operations

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