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In this lesson, we will look at how to filter the groups resulting from writing group by clauses with the HAVING clause.
Rails 7.1 introduces many new features for authentication. In this lesson, we'll show you how to implement authentication from scratch using Rails 7.1's new features.
Has secure password is boasting some new benefits in Rails 7.1 with the addition of the authenticate_by method which reduces timing-based enumeration attack vulnerabilities. Also being introduced is the ability to provide a required password challenge.
Rails 7.1's new generates_token_for method allows us to build password reset and Magic Link login tokens without storing details in the database. Tokens have expirations and can be one-time use so they can't be reused.
In this lesson, we will look at a new option coming to the rails routes command in Rails 7.1 which will display a list of any routes deemed as unused in your Rails application. Let's see what qualifies a route as unused and learn some other handy tips!
How to upgrade to Rails 7.1 This will also work with any other version and offers a few tips on how to test things out and revert back if necessary.
In this lesson, we will look at a new option coming to ActiveJob in Rails 7.1 for enqueuing multiple jobs at once using the perform_all_later class method.
In this episode, we will look into the new health check endpoint that will come by default in a Rails 7.1 application.
We're going to build a URL Shortener in Rails, so where do we start? In this lesson, we'll plan out our project and the features we want to build.
First things first, we need a Link model to store our
Using Base62, we can take an Integer ID and compress it for short codes in our URLs
Decoding our Base62 encoded short codes is the next challenge
Now that we have Base62 encoding and decoding, we can tell Rails to use this for generating URL params and find
Analytics for links is a useful feature so lets record Views for links and show them in a graph
Copy to clipboard is a required feature for a URL shortener. We'll implement this with two JavaScript libraries (clipboardjs and tippy.js) and a Stimulus controller.
We're ready to deploy our URL Shortener to production and we're going to do that using Hatchbox.io
Anyone can add, edit, and delete any Link in our URL Shortener database. Your challenge is to add users, associate links with them and only allow editing of your own links.
Here's how we'd add Users and handle edit permissions for links. See how it compares to your implementation and consider the pros/cons of each approach.
Once our application has lots of links, it will become impossible to use. Let's add pagination to make our application usable once we have hundreds or thousands of links.
Congratulations! We're all done! We now have a fully featured URL shortener that does everything we need plus some cool extras.
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