I thought it would be fun to start a thread where we can post the things we've learned recently. Today I learned that `__dir__` returns a full path while `File.dirname(__FILE__)` returns a relativ...

Hey I'm an Angular developer diving into the Ruby on Rails, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to structure reusable frontend components, like buttons, in a Rails project. Especially because...

pretty neat! Thanks for sharing

i have sqlite3 3.43.2 and ruby 3.2.2 on windows 11 I'm trying to download rails but nothing seems to be working. not homebrew, ubuntu or gem install rails bundler --no-document i'm not sure which t...

Can I convert a uploaded svg file to png format? In previewer class?

[Nomad List](https://nomadlist.com/) is a crowdsourced database of cities for Digital Nomads. They do this really cool thing for SEO where as you apply filters, the database is queried and the home...

Hello people, for the past weeks or months I've been trying to learn JS by my self. I started learning with Modern JavaScript and read most of the basic stuff but I couldn't continue and I stoppe...

Hi,I got all the way through this so thanks for the walk through! I run "rails server -b 0.0.0.0" and the server boots fine but when I go to localhost:3000 in the browser, the browser icon spins bu...

I'm using Hatchbox to deploy my Rails 7 application. However, occasionally during deployment, I encounter the ActiveRecord::PreparedStatementCacheExpired error. How can I avoid this issue to ensure...

This episode has been updated for Omniauth 2.0. 👍

Authentication got a TON of great improvements in Rails 7.1 with `authenticate_by`, `generates_token_for`, `normalizes`, etc. Super duper excited for these things and they should clean up a lot of ...

Chris, thanks for all the great videos. These are super informative. I have a question about fixtures and TDD in general. Should I be creating a fixture for every potential variation in my model?...

I am trying to make a Chat web application based on Rails 4.0 using "private_pub" gem which works perfectly on my localhost server. You can check out my application at curatethelens.com. Now my sit...

root@ubuntu:~/Make-Rails# ./bin/webpack [webpack-cli] Invalid configuration object. Webpack has been initialized using a configuration object that does not match the API schema. - configuration.no...

Hey Chris, is there any major difference between the newish Active record signed IDs in Rails 6.1 vs the Global ID signed IDs? A quick glance leads me to think the only real difference is that AR s...

How do I post comment with ajax in rails 4.2 ? Can I please have a detailed example?

Great episode Collin! The `authenticate_by` method really is a bug piece of making _secure_ authentication from scratch in Rails. These are nuances that are important (and already done in Devise), ...

Hi, How can I restrict access to the devise sign_up route to logged in users only? Controller: ```ruby # frozen_string_literal: true class Users::RegistrationsController < Devise::Registrati...

I would like to structure my blog so that I can assign posts I have created with Trix and Shrine to weeks. I want to have 12 teaserboxes on my index page which can then be clicked and if I click o...