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We don't want to save passwords in plaintext in our password manager's database. That would be insecure. Luckily Rails provides ActiveRecord Encryption to make this easy.

13m

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.

31m

How to Add Pagination for Blog Posts in Rails

Apr 05, 2023

Pagination is something we don't need until we publish a lot of blog posts. We can use the pagy gem to add page links to the bottom of our pages and handle thousands of blog posts.

16m

Rich Text Blog Posts with ActionText

ActionText is a feature of Rails that allows you to add rich text including file uploads to any of your models. This is a perfect fit for our Blog Posts, so we're going to replace the text column with a rich text field with ActionText.

Sorting Blog Posts With Scopes

Apr 03, 2023

Scopes are a way for us to change the way a database table is queried. For example, we can use them to change the ordering of the results so certain records are first.

15m

Writing Tests for Scheduled Blog Posts

Apr 03, 2023

Our scheduled blog posts adds some complexity to our app. In this lesson, we're going to write some tests to make sure that our code does what we want it to do.

24m

Adding Scheduled Blog Posts

Apr 03, 2023

Scheduling blog posts to be published in the future is the next feature we're going to add. In this lesson, we'll talk about several options we have to implement this and then choose one to build.

14m

The Ruby Subscript Operator

Jan 09, 2023 Pro

Rails uses the Ruby subscript operator to implement versioning with ActiveRecord Migrations. We'll learn how this works and implement it from scratch to see how it all ties together

15m

Error Handling Ergonomics in Noticed

Oct 03, 2022 Pro

Errors can come up in many different ways. This episode, we'll look at how we can improve error handling in the noticed gem to cleanly handle issues with ActiveRecord without negatively affecting

1h 22m

How To Maintain A Rails Gem: Becoming Maintainer of the Sequenced Gem

Aug 29, 2022 Pro

I recently became a maintainer of the Sequenced gem for Rails, so this lesson we walk through all the different things for maintaining a gem and making sure it works with the latest Rails versions.

15m

Polymorphic Selects in Rails using GlobalIDs

Jun 06, 2022 Pro

Using Signed GlobalIDs, we can create polymorphic select boxes in Rails to easily choose a record of any type. This is also secured by using signed global IDs to prevent tampering by malicious users.

Testing Against Multiple Databases in Rails with The DATABASE_URL Env Var

Apr 11, 2022 Pro

Rails apps and Rubygems might need to support multiple databases. We can use the DATABASE_URL environment variable to quickly swap out the database that Rails uses in CI, local testing, and more.

Parallel ActiveRecord Queries with load_async in Rails 7

Nov 11, 2021 Pro

Complex queries can slow your page rendering down. We can now run long queries in parallel with Rails 7's load_async method in ActiveRecord to speed up page rendering.

10m

How to Build Custom ActiveRecord Validations

Sep 20, 2021 Pro

Custom ActiveRecord validations are easy to make and they're implemented exactly the same way as the built-in Rails validations. It's super handy to be able to add nice, clean validations that you can repeat throughout your apps.

12m

ActiveRecord Default Scopes, Unscoped, and Unscope

Jun 22, 2021 Pro

ActiveRecord default_scopes are incredibly useful for some features like soft delete. But sometimes we need to undo a scope, so that's where unscope comes in.

11m

Realtime Nested Comments: Part 2

Feb 08, 2021

Hotwire lets us broadcast changes so we can use the same approach for nested comments, but in realtime!

20m

Realtime Nested Comments: Part 1

Feb 02, 2021

Hotwire lets us broadcast changes so we can use the same approach for nested comments, but in realtime!

15m

Slug History & Redirecting Old Slugs with FriendlyID

Jan 25, 2021 Pro

Updating slugs

14m

Testing against multiple versions of Ruby, Rails, and Databases with GitHub Actions

Nov 30, 2020 Pro

Testing a gem or your Rails app against multiple Ruby and Rails versions is super useful, but we also take it a step further and test our gem against several different databases too

13m

Drag and Drop sortable lists with Rails & Stimulus JS

Apr 28, 2020

Drag and drop sortable lists in Rails aren't too hard using Sortablejs and Stimulus to make wire them up to our backend with acts_as_list

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Encrypting Passwords In The Database

May 31, 2023 Pro

Designing Database Models for a Password Manager

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How to Add Pagination for Blog Posts in Rails

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Rich Text Blog Posts with ActionText

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Sorting Blog Posts With Scopes

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Writing Tests for Scheduled Blog Posts

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Adding Scheduled Blog Posts

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The Ruby Subscript Operator

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Error Handling Ergonomics in Noticed

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How To Maintain A Rails Gem: Becoming Maintainer of the Sequenced Gem

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Polymorphic Selects in Rails using GlobalIDs

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Testing Against Multiple Databases in Rails with The DATABASE_URL Env Var

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Parallel ActiveRecord Queries with load_async in Rails 7

Nov 11, 2021 Pro

How to Build Custom ActiveRecord Validations

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ActiveRecord Default Scopes, Unscoped, and Unscope

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Realtime Nested Comments: Part 2

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Slug History & Redirecting Old Slugs with FriendlyID

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