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If you're building something with shared functionality, extracting a base class can be helpful to create a shared place each class can inherit from. We'll explore how to do this for our API clients and one of the tricky things about accessing constants.
Testing your Meilisearch integration in Rails can be a little tricky. This episode, we'll talk through how to setup Meilisearch in your test suite to index fixtures and more.
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
Config options sometimes need to support dynamic values and not just simple booleans. In this lesson, we'll discover a config in Devise, explore how we can hack around it, and then make a Pull Request to improve this feature in Devise instead.
Whisper.cpp is an open source C/C++ port of OpenAI Whisper that we can use with Ruby for transcribing our videos. We'll also look at how ActiveStorage runs executables like ffmpeg to see how it works behind the scenes just like with what we're building.
In this lesson, we'll create a job to download a video, extract the audio with ffmpeg, transcribe the video with Whisper, and upload the captions to our hosting provider.
Installing Ruby on Rails
Learn how to pull business logic out of your models and put them into Plain Old Ruby Objects (POROs) in order to clean up your code and keep chunks of business logic in reusable bits.
Dependency Injection is a common technique for making your code more flexible and testable by removing strict dependencies upon other classes, modules, and other types of dependencies in your code
Ever wanted an editor and Rails environment you can use anywhere? Cloud9 is the perfect option for this and can run on an EC2 instance in your AWS account.
CSS Variables or CSS custom properties allow you to define variables that can be used throughout your CSS to change properties and their values dynamically. It's a wonderful feature for allowing users to customize the look of your website.
Rails Engines really make our code shine for simple_calendar
C extensions are a powerful tool to connect Ruby code with C libraries that can perform much faster than a pure Ruby counterpart.
Need a way for users to edit code in your Rails app? CodeMirror is an excellent option for a Javascript code editor that you can use with your Rails apps. We'll set up CodeMirror with Stimulus.js so you can replace any text field in Rails.
It's a common situation that we need to submit complex data in our forms in our Rails apps. We'll explore how can we transform the simple values browser forms allow and convert them into something Rails can use and transform into Ruby objects.
Taking the ERB code we wrote for simple_calendar and finding the right balance of Ruby and ERB for our gem
A lot of developers use link_to and button_to interchangeably. In this lesson, we'll explore when you should use link_to and when to use button_to and the differences between them.
A command palette is a common feature for power users. Learn how to add a command palette to your Ruby on Rails app using the Ninja Keys web component.
Modules and concerns provide a way to make functionality reusable across your Rails application and other apps. In this lesson, we'll show you how we can refactor our comments functionality to add a feature to any resources in Rails.
Ever gotten an InvalidAuthentictyToken error in Rails and wondered how CSRF works? In this lesson, we'll learn how it works behind the scenes so you can understand exactly what's going on.
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