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18m

Adding Edit Permissions For Links

Sep 30, 2023 Pro

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.

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17m

ActiveJob Perform All Later

Sep 29, 2023 Pro

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.

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2m

Challenge: Add Users To The URL Shortener

Sep 29, 2023 Pro

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.

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11m

Deploying URL Shortener To Production with Hatchbox.io

Sep 28, 2023 Pro

We're ready to deploy our URL Shortener to production and we're going to do that using Hatchbox.io

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13m

Copy Link To Clipboard

Sep 27, 2023 Pro

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.

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33m

Retrieving Link Metadata with Background Jobs

Sep 26, 2023 Pro

We can retrieve the title, description, and OpenGraph metadata for URLs. Since HTTP requests can be slow, we'll implement this metadata lookup in a background job and broadcast to the frontend with Turbo.

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14m

Unused Rails Routes Command

Sep 25, 2023 Pro

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!

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28m

Improving the URL Shortener Design

Sep 25, 2023 Pro

It's time we start cleaning up the design and UI for a better experience with our URL shortener.

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11m

Views Chart for Links

Sep 24, 2023 Pro

Analytics for links is a useful feature so lets record Views for links and show them in a graph

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4m

Short URL Link Redirects

Sep 23, 2023 Pro

Next, we can build redirecting Short URLs to the URL on the Link

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5m

Find By Short Code

Sep 22, 2023 Pro

Now that we have Base62 encoding and decoding, we can tell Rails to use this for generating URL params and find

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14m

Magic Link Authentication with generates_token_for in Rails 7.1

Sep 22, 2023 Pro

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.

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12m

Base62 Decoding Short Codes

Sep 21, 2023 Pro

Decoding our Base62 encoded short codes is the next challenge

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17m

Authenticate By & Password Challenge Methods In Rails 7.1

Sep 20, 2023 Pro

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.

2
17m

Base62 Encoding Short Codes

Sep 20, 2023 Pro

Using Base62, we can take an Integer ID and compress it for short codes in our URLs

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17m

Creating The Link Model

Sep 19, 2023 Pro

First things first, we need a Link model to store our

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9m

URL Shortener Requirements

Sep 18, 2023 Pro

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.

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6m

Virtual Generated Columns in Rails with ActiveRecord

Sep 06, 2023 Pro

Rails' ActiveRecord supports virtual generated columns in the database. For example, you can use these for converting numbers like degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit. These columns are saved with the regular table data and allows you to query against them.

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16m

Ruby Debugging with Strace

Aug 28, 2023 Pro

In this lesson, we will be learning how to use strace to watch our system calls which we can then use to help debug issues further.

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17m

Law of Demeter and Delegation

Aug 07, 2023 Pro

In this episode, we will dip our toes into an Object Oriented Design Principle known as the Law of Demeter. We will then look at an example of a small violation of this principle followed by a couple of solutions to remedy the issue.

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