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Sending Webhooks in Rails is easy, but what happens when the request fails? You'll need to implement retries and exponential backoff so you don't DoS their service
How to build a custom Rails referral or affiliate program from scratch
Use the jstz Javascript timezone library to help auto-detect and set the user's time zone in your Rails apps
How to build nested comments and threads in Ruby on Rails
Implementing polymorphic, reusable comments across models and limiting the nesting allowed for nested comment threads
Using AJAX, we can submit our comments and have them render onto the page without a page refresh.
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.
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
Learn how to implement a Slack Slash Command App in Rails using webhooks
Learn how to add sidebar search filters like Amazon.com using ElasticSearch's aggregations in Searchkick
Starting our Embeddable JS Widget series outlining the comment and discussion models and the basic webpacker setup
The next step in our embeddable javascript widget series is setting up our Vue frontend to talk with our Rails backend using Vuex
Embeddable Javascript Widgets often contain forms. We're using Vuex to build our comment form widget and we're going to use vue-map-fields to make this easier.
Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) allows your website to talk to other websites.
We don't want anyone to be able to embed your Javascript widget on any domain, so we'll setup our app to check the domain and only allow the widget on specific sites
We can use webpacker to create scoped styles for our Javascript widget and build an embed code that links to the latest version of our webpacker JS and CSS for our embeddable widget.
Security in production is important. We can use Fail2ban and NGINX to block malicious users from accessing our server and apps.
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.
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
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!
