Common Features Tutorial Series
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Learn how to format text in Markdown using the html-pipeline gem
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Learn how to set up polymorphic associations, add comments to your app, and think about the structure of your Rails application
23:02
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Learn how to build an activity feed from scratch and how to manage lots of flexible partials
27:50
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Learn how to add @mentions, autocomplete, notifications, and link parsing
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Learn how to add the common "Retweet" or "Reblog" functionality in your Rails app with self-referential associations
19:08
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Learn how to refactor in-app notifications to render server side to simplify your code and templates
11:02
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Add masquerading (the ability to impersonate or login as another user) to your development or admin environments using the devise_masquerade gem
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Select a record or create a new one for an association in a form using the Selectize.js library
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Use ActiveRecord::Store and ActiveRecord-TypedStore to save user preferences and settings to a single column in the database
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See how to add global autocomplete and search functionality to your app's navbar
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Add various types of charts to your Rails app with Chartkick and use Groupdate to make easy group queries in SQL
21:59
#195 · Pro
Track users and the actions they take in your Rails app and then send them over to various 3rd party services using Segment
21:34
#196 ·
Tracking business metrics can be time consuming and costly but the Ahoy gem lets you easily track metrics and Blazer makes it incredibly easy to analyze your data
12:32
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Drag and drop sorting is pretty easy to add to any Rails application using jQuery sortable
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#209 ·
Learn how to use the Trix editor for editing wysiwyg content and upload attachments like images using Javascript and Shrine
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#211 ·
Use the Trix editor in your admin area using Administrate's custom fields.
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Learn how to handle inbound emails in your Rails application and use them to create comments in your app
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Using the devise-two-factor gem, we can add an extra layer of security to our apps by having a our users type in a one-time password along with their email and password when they login. We'll be using the Google Authenticator app to login.
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Track errors in Rails, Sidekiq, etc in production for free using the open source Errbit app and the Airbrake gem
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#216 · Pro
A/B testing (or split testing) is a really common way of testing changes in your app to determine which works best for your users.
13:06
#226 · Pro
Rather than serving your user's a 404 dead end, we can use the ActiveSupport rescue_from method to give users search results instead and how to reuse this with ActiveSupport Concerns
24:17
#230 · Pro
This episode we build an undo button to stop sending notifications out just like you can hit "Undo" inside of GMail
20:07
#260 · Pro
Use the jstz Javascript timezone library to help auto-detect and set the user's time zone in your Rails apps
18:25
#258 · Pro
How to build a custom Rails referral or affiliate program from scratch
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#261 ·
Pagy is 29x faster at pagination in their benchmarks which makes it an ultra fast and lightweight pagination library
10:16
#267 ·
Deciding whether or not to have separate first and last name fields gets a bit confusing. Basecamp's recently released name_of_person gem shows you exactly how to handle this reliably and also stands as a fantastic example of how to build a concern
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#272 ·
Adding user avatars is pretty easy using Rails' ActiveStorage feature. We'll be using Devise in this example, but this applies to any user authentication system.