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How to build a complete, real-world application from scratch with Ruby on Rails step by step.
A lot of Ruby code is "magic". We'll explain the magic and see how it works using the powerful tools Ruby gives us.
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We spend most of our time working with Ruby gems and node modules, but on the rare occasion, we might need to debug an Ubuntu / Debian package. In this lesson, we'll see how these packages work and debug something in the PostgreSQL package.
The first step in building an API wrapper Rubygem is building your HTTP client. We're going to use Faraday as our HTTP client and get it setup with authentication.
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.
Learn how to deeply integrate your Vue.js components with Ruby on Rails views
We take a look at the basics of using Ruby's CSV library to import data into your Rails application with a Rake task
This series walks through the entire process of building a Ruby on Rails app from start to finish. We'll be building AnimatedGif.me for saving and sharing animated gifs as easily as possible.
Learn how to write tests for validations on ActiveRecord objects in Ruby on Rails
Did you know serialize can be used for more than saving Ruby hashes as JSON or Yaml in your db? You can take any attribute and convert it to an object seamlessly with Rails using serialize and custom coders.
Learn how to use Vagrant to set up a headless virtual machine for Ruby on Rails development
ActiveRecord Aggregations let you use composed_of to combine columns into a single attribute using a Ruby object.
Adam McCrea walks through using Phlex to build components for views in your Rails applications. Phlex is a Ruby gem for building fast object-oriented HTML and SVG components using Ruby constructs: methods, keyword arguments and blocks.
Appraisal lets us test our code against different versions of dependencies. This is fantastic if you're building Rubygems that must work with multiple versions of Rails or other dependencies
You might not realize your code has concepts that need to be extracted. Sometimes it's as simple as a small decorator around a Ruby class as we'll see in this lesson.
Next up, we need to sync videos from our hosting provider's API so we'll build an API client from scratch using net/http in Ruby
Testing out new features or changes in production is something almost every application needs. Flipper is a fantastic tool with a GUI for rolling out these changes easily in your Ruby on Rails app.
Rails associations provide an object that quacks like an ActiveRecord but is actually a CollectionProxy. We can extend the proxy object with our own functionality to add useful features with Ruby Modules.
AI summaries are in every application these days. In this lesson, we'll use Google's new Gemini 2.0 AI model and API to generate summaries of text that we can use in any Ruby or Rails app.
The first thing we need is a database table to store our blog posts. We create a Rails model (the M in MVC) to create the database and a Ruby class for us to interact with the database table.
