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26m

Adding Sales to the black_friday gem

Dec 02, 2024 Pro

Calculating dates is helpful, but what if we took the black_friday gem a step further by adding sales?

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11m

Adding Referrals to Devise with the Refer gem

Jul 29, 2024 Pro

Customizing Devise feels daunting, but it's surprisingly easy. In this lesson, we'll customize Devise to track referrals using the Refer gem.

1
14m

Adding Custom Inputs to GitHub Actions

May 20, 2024 Pro

Did you know GitHub Actions supports inputs? You can accept inputs from the user or other actions to be used in your action.

3
39m

Contributing to Open Source: Adding subdomains to the Addressable gem

May 22, 2023 Pro

The addressable gem adds some nice features over Ruby's built-in URI class, but it doesn't have any helpers for extracting subdomains. In this lesson, we'll add some methods to Addressable to make accessing subdomains easier.

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12m

Advanced URL Parsing in Rails with PublicSuffix & Addressable gems

May 15, 2023 Pro

URI in Ruby is powerful, but not complete. We can use the PublicSuffix and Addressable gems to take this a step further for parsing domains and subdomains.

0
26m

How to build a Custom Rack Middleware for Rails with Railties

Jan 02, 2023 Pro

Learn how to add a custom Rack middleware to Rails apps with a gem and Railtie. We'll build a simple Rack middleware that intercepts requests to make your app only work during business hours.

0
15m

How to Refresh the OmniAuth AuthHash

Oct 31, 2022 Pro

This episode, we explore the internals of OmniAuth in order to fix a bug and refresh the OmniAuth AuthHash without reinventing the wheel

3
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.

3
14m

How to Write C Extensions for Ruby Gems

Dec 20, 2021 Pro

C extensions are a powerful tool to connect Ruby code with C libraries that can perform much faster than a pure Ruby counterpart.

2
25m

Testing API Requests

Sep 14, 2021 Pro

How do we test API requests in a Rubygem to make sure that we're integrating correctly with our backend? We'll learn how to use stubs to fake out the request and test our code without any network requests.

1
11m

API CRUD Actions

Sep 07, 2021 Pro

The core of any API wrapper is the actions for create, read, update, and delete. We'll implement the CRUD for a resource so you can see how to do it and wire up everything together that we've built so far.

4
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.

3
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.

4
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

7
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.

6
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

2
13m

Geo-spatial Search with Searchkick and ElasticSearch

Sep 26, 2017 Pro

Index and search your models by geolocation using Searchkick and Elasticsearch

8
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

2
20m

When Callbacks and Dependencies Are A Good Idea

Apr 04, 2017 Pro

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.

1
30m

Fixing Counter Caches in the Paranoia Gem

Mar 13, 2017 Pro

A walk through of the process of fixing a popular gem and learning how ActiveRecord and the Paranoia gem works

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