Gems Episodes - Ruby on Rails Screencast Tutorials

Often times you hear people say using callbacks and adding dependencies are always bad. Life's not that simple and in this episode we explore when to use callbacks and when it makes sense to add gem dependencies to your app.

20m

Facebook API and Refreshing Auth Tokens with Koala

Aug 08, 2017 Pro

Learn how to use the Facebook API and refresh auth tokens using the Koala gem

13m

Geo-spatial Search with Searchkick and ElasticSearch

Sep 26, 2017 Pro

Index and search your models by geolocation using Searchkick and Elasticsearch

21m

Handling Inbound Email Parsing with Rails

Oct 24, 2017 Pro

Learn how to handle inbound emails in your Rails application and use them to create comments in your app

16m

A/B Split Testing with the Split gem

Nov 21, 2017 Pro

A/B testing (or split testing) is a really common way of testing changes in your app to determine which works best for your users.

26m

How to Upgrade Old Projects: ActsAsTenant

Nov 17, 2020 Pro

ActsAsTenant needed some maintenance so we're going to walk through the steps of refactoring the gem and Rspec test suite

18m

Transforming JSON responses to Ruby objects with OpenStruct

Aug 24, 2021 Pro

When you receive a JSON response from an API endpoint, it's really easy to convert this to a Ruby hash. But hashes don't feel very Ruby-ish when you're working with them and you can't add methods and treat them like objects.

16m

Mapping API Resources & Handling Pagination

Aug 31, 2021 Pro

The core of an API wrapper Rubygem is defining the Resource endpoints so developers can make requests cleanly. We'll also learn how to handle pagination for endpoints that return a list of results.

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Forum Series Part 6: Search with Ransack

Oct 30, 2014 Pro

Markdown and Emoji with the html-pipeline gem

Nov 14, 2014 Pro

Upload Progress with Refile Javascript

Jan 03, 2015 Pro

Advanced Messaging with Mailboxer: Mark As Read

Mar 05, 2016 Pro

Advanced Mailboxer: Multiple User Conversations

Mar 11, 2016 Pro

Advanced Messaging with Mailboxer: Adding Attachments

Mar 17, 2016 Pro

Upgrading simple_calendar for Rails 5

Apr 04, 2016 Pro

Inviting Users with devise_invitable

May 23, 2016 Pro

Custom will_paginate Methods

Jun 02, 2016 Pro

Adding Exceptions To Recurring Events

Dec 05, 2016 Pro

Multiple File Uploads with Shrine

Dec 14, 2016 Pro

Fixing Counter Caches in the Paranoia Gem

Mar 13, 2017 Pro

When Callbacks and Dependencies Are A Good Idea

Apr 04, 2017 Pro