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Common Features Series

1. Liking Posts

Pro · #24 · Sep 15, 2014 · 138

Add liking or favoriting to your app like Facebook or Twitter

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2. Markdown and Emoji with the html-pipeline gem

Pro · #32 · Nov 14, 2014 · 33

Learn how to format text in Markdown using the html-pipeline gem

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3. Comments With Polymorphic Associations

#36 · Dec 19, 2014 · 72

Learn how to set up polymorphic associations, add comments to your app, and think about the structure of your Rails application

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4. Activity Feed From Scratch

Pro · #70 · Jul 03, 2015 · 65

Learn how to build an activity feed from scratch and how to manage lots of flexible partials

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@Mentions, Autocomplete, Notifications, and Links

Pro · #78 · Jul 17, 2015 · 49

Learn how to add @mentions, autocomplete, notifications, and link parsing

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6. Scheduling Posts

Pro · #86 · Aug 26, 2015 · 35

Learn how to schedule posts in draft, published, and scheduled modes

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In-App Navbar Notifications

#96 · Dec 05, 2015 · 93

Learn how to add in-app notifications like Facebook and Twitter

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8. Repost / Retweet / Reblog

Pro · #118 · May 10, 2016 · 25

Learn how to add the common "Retweet" or "Reblog" functionality in your Rails app with self-referential associations

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9. Message Templates

#122 · Jun 07, 2016 · 23

Learn how to use a template model to populate forms and other objects with

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Improving In-App Notifications

Pro · #124 · Jun 20, 2016 · 28

Learn how to refactor in-app notifications to render server side to simplify your code and templates

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Devise Masquerade as another User

#170 · Jan 31, 2017 · 28

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 Or Create Field With Selectize.js

#178 · Mar 21, 2017 · 32

Select a record or create a new one for an association in a form using the Selectize.js library

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Preferences & Settings with ActiveRecord::Store

Pro · #191 · May 31, 2017 · 34

Use ActiveRecord::Store and ActiveRecord-TypedStore to save user preferences and settings to a single column in the database

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Global Autocomplete Search

#192 · Jun 06, 2017 · 44

See how to add global autocomplete and search functionality to your app's navbar

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Charts with Chartkick and Groupdate

#194 · Jun 19, 2017 · 31

Add various types of charts to your Rails app with Chartkick and use Groupdate to make easy group queries in SQL

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Analytics with Segment

Pro · #195 · Jun 27, 2017 · 21

Track users and the actions they take in your Rails app and then send them over to various 3rd party services using Segment

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Tracking Metrics with Ahoy and Blazer

#196 · Jul 03, 2017 · 27

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

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Sortable Drag and Drop

#207 · Sep 19, 2017 · 39

Drag and drop sorting is pretty easy to add to any Rails application using jQuery sortable

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Using the Trix Editor plus File Upload Attachments

#209 · Oct 03, 2017 · 37

Learn how to use the Trix editor for editing wysiwyg content and upload attachments like images using Javascript and Shrine

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Administrate Custom Fields and the Trix Editor

#211 · Oct 17, 2017 · 12

Use the Trix editor in your admin area using Administrate's custom fields.

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Handling Inbound Email Parsing with Rails

Pro · #212 · Oct 24, 2017 · 11

Learn how to handle inbound emails in your Rails application and use them to create comments in your app

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Two Factor Authentication With Devise

Pro · #214 · Nov 07, 2017 · 18

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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Error Tracking with Errbit

#215 · Nov 14, 2017 · 16

Track errors in Rails, Sidekiq, etc in production for free using the open source Errbit app and the Airbrake gem

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A/B Split Testing with the Split gem

Pro · #216 · Nov 21, 2017 · 14

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.

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Handle 404s Better Using Rescue_from

Pro · #226 · Jan 29, 2018 · 14

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

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Undo Sending Button like GMail

Pro · #230 · Feb 21, 2018 · 12

This episode we build an undo button to stop sending notifications out just like you can hit "Undo" inside of GMail

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Auto-detect User Time Zones in Rails

Pro · #260 · Aug 28, 2018 · 12

Use the jstz Javascript timezone library to help auto-detect and set the user's time zone in your Rails apps

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User Referral Program From Scratch

Pro · #258 · Aug 14, 2018 · 18

How to build a custom Rails referral or affiliate program from scratch

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Fast Pagination with Pagy

#261 · Sep 06, 2018 · 25

Pagy is 29x faster at pagination in their benchmarks which makes it an ultra fast and lightweight pagination library

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Handling First & Last Name with the name_of_person gem

New! · #267 · Oct 17, 2018 · 9

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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