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Lessons

Testing External APIs with VCR

Oct 29, 2019 Pro

Testing integrations with external APIs in your Rails app can be hard. You don't know what requests are being made (or even the responses), so how can you properly mock them out? VCR to the rescue.

11m

Flash Messages and Toasts with Hotwire & Turbo.js

Mar 15, 2021 Pro

Hotwire & Turbo.js are designed to make realtime updates to your page. So how do you notify the user with flash messages or toasts? That's what we're covering in this episode.

Webpack Bundle Analyzer

Jul 06, 2020 Pro

Webpack bundles can be confusing as to what actually ships in production. Using the bundle analyzer plugin, we can visualize and see exactly what libraries and files are taking up what space.

11m

Advanced Flash Messages with Buttons & Actions in Rails

Sep 28, 2020 Pro

Flash messages are typically a simple string saying something succeeded or failed. What if we wanted to add buttons like you see in most applications? It's easier than you might think!

11m

Edit & Update Blog Post Actions

Apr 03, 2023

Implementing Edit and Update actions are straightforward now. We can reuse what we've learned with New and Create and reuse some of the logic to edit and update database records in Rails.

15m

Turbo Confirm Modals with Confirmation Text in Rails

Turbo confirm modals typically ask a simple yes or no confirmation. What if you want to force the user to type in confirmation text to ensure they are paying attention? That's exactly what we'll build in this episode!

What Is A State Machine?

Aug 20, 2015

Learn what a state machine is and how it can help you keep track of everything

20m

Decorators From Scratch

Feb 22, 2017 Pro

Learn what the Decorator design pattern does and how to implement it from scratch

10m

Symbols vs Strings

Feb 14, 2019

Ever wondered what the difference between Symbols and Strings were? Why would we use one over the other when most languages only have strings?

14m

Open Source Vlog - Building A Calendar From Scratch

Jun 29, 2015

Spiking out code to figure out what we want so that we can do a great refactoring of simple_calendar

19m

Open Source Vlog - Setting Up For The Future

Jun 27, 2015

Planning our future work on simple_calendar and what we're going to accomplish

13m

Designing Database Models for a Password Manager

May 30, 2023 Pro

Our first step in building any application is designing what database models we will need to store our data.

16m

Sending Webhooks with Exponential Backoff

Jul 26, 2018 Pro

Sending Webhooks in Rails is easy, but what happens when the request fails? You'll need to implement retries and exponential backoff so you don't DoS their service

17m

Migrating From jQuery to Vanilla Javascript

May 23, 2017

Without jQuery in Rails 5.1, we explore what it takes to convert your traditional jQuery code into vanilla Javascript methods

20m

Rails Application Structure Explained

Apr 03, 2023

Now that we've created a new Rails app, let's take a look at the files generated and learn what they do

15m

Writing Tests for Scheduled Blog Posts

Apr 03, 2023

Our scheduled blog posts adds some complexity to our app. In this lesson, we're going to write some tests to make sure that our code does what we want it to do.

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!

21m

Your First Ruby Gem

Oct 24, 2022

In this episode, we will create our first Ruby Gem. It will be a very simplified gem that adds a method to the built-in Ruby Array class. The goal is to understand the core pieces of what is needed to create a gem that we can share with the community.