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Common Features in Rails Apps

Most Ruby on Rails applications need the same features over and over again. Anything from comments, notifications, friend IDs, subdomains, and more. This series covers all kinds of different features that you'll need to implement on a regular basis as a Ruby on Rails developer.

Series Info

Videos

62

Length

17hr 54min

Difficulty

Intermediate

Videos

Liking Posts

#24 · Sep 15, 2014 Pro

Add liking or favoriting to your app like Facebook or Twitter

100

Markdown and Emoji with the html-pipeline gem

#32 · Nov 14, 2014 Pro

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

24

Comments With Polymorphic Associations

#36 · Dec 19, 2014

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

99

Activity Feed From Scratch

#70 · Jul 03, 2015 Pro

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

18

@Mentions, Autocomplete, Notifications, and Links

#78 · Jul 17, 2015 Pro

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

5

Scheduling Posts

#86 · Aug 26, 2015 Pro

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

7

In-App Navbar Notifications

#96 · Dec 05, 2015

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

56

Repost / Retweet / Reblog

#118 · May 10, 2016 Pro

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

13

Message Templates

#122 · Jun 07, 2016

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

5

Improving In-App Notifications

#124 · Jun 20, 2016 Pro

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

26

Devise Masquerade as another User

#170 · Jan 31, 2017

Add masquerading (the ability to impersonate or login as another user) to your development or admin environments using the devise_masquerade gem

25

Select Or Create Field With Selectize.js

#178 · Mar 21, 2017

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

23

Preferences & Settings with ActiveRecord::Store

#191 · May 31, 2017 Pro

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

25

Global Autocomplete Search

#192 · Jun 06, 2017

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

32

Charts with Chartkick and Groupdate

#194 · Jun 19, 2017

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

6

Analytics with Segment

#195 · Jun 27, 2017 Pro

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

9

Tracking Metrics with Ahoy and Blazer

#196 · Jul 03, 2017

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

16

Sortable Drag and Drop

#207 · Sep 19, 2017

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

31

Using the Trix Editor plus File Upload Attachments

#209 · Oct 03, 2017

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

54

Administrate Custom Fields and the Trix Editor

#211 · Oct 17, 2017

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

6

Handling Inbound Email Parsing with Rails

#212 · Oct 24, 2017 Pro

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

2

Two Factor Authentication With Devise

#214 · Nov 07, 2017 Pro

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.

23

Error Tracking with Errbit

#215 · Nov 14, 2017

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

6

A/B Split Testing with the Split gem

#216 · Nov 21, 2017 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.

6

Handle 404s Better Using Rescue_from

#226 · Jan 29, 2018 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

2

Undo Sending Button like GMail

#230 · Feb 21, 2018 Pro

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

2

Auto-detect User Time Zones in Rails

#260 · Aug 28, 2018 Pro

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

3

User Referral Program From Scratch

#258 · Aug 14, 2018 Pro

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

25

How to Add Pagination with Pagy

#261 · Sep 06, 2018

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

21

Handling First & Last Name with the name_of_person gem

#267 · Oct 17, 2018

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

4

User Avatars with ActiveStorage

#272 · Nov 21, 2018

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.

14

Autosave Draft Records - Part 1

#281 · Jan 23, 2019 Pro

Autosaving draft records allows you to make sure users don't lose their work and can easily write draft content without publishing right away. We'll be using Stimulus to build an autosave controller for our form and Draftsman to power the backend.

4

Autosave Draft Records - Part 2

#282 · Jan 31, 2019 Pro

Creating draft records in your database can be tricky. We'll be using the Draftsman gem to help us create draft versions of our records with our autosave Javascript

1

User Onboarding Progress Bar

#289 · Mar 22, 2019 Pro

Add onboarding steps for new users and show their completion progress so they can check items off the list, learn how your product works, and get the most out of it.

9

Preventing Conflicts with Optimistic Locking

#307 · Aug 15, 2019 Pro

When things (users, jobs, etc) attempt to update the same record at the same time, we can often lose changes. Optimistic locking uses a lock version number to warn you about updating stale objects so you can handle that safely.

2

Handle Race Conditions with Pessimistic Locking

#308 · Aug 22, 2019 Pro

Race conditions can cause problems with data integrity. We can prevent these issues with Pessimistic Locking in ActiveRecord which uses database row-level locking.

1

How to use Uppy with ActiveStorage

#329 · Jan 27, 2020

Learn how to implement Uppy as a frontend for uploading files via drag and drop, paste, URL, Google Drive, Dropbox, webcam and more to Active Storage in Rails

38

Tracking online users with timestamps

#330 · Feb 03, 2020

We can use timestamps in our database to track of online users in your Rails

2

Realtime Online User Tracking with ActionCable

#331 · Feb 10, 2020 Pro

If we want to add realtime tracking of which users are online, we can use active websocket connections through ActionCable to keep track.

15

File uploads in Rails with Shrine

#336 · Mar 16, 2020

File uploads in Rails with Shrine make it easy to upload and customize how files get uploaded and processed in Rails

10

How to use the Pay gem to accept Payments in Rails

#338 · Mar 30, 2020

A getting started guide on the Pay gem for accepting payments in Rails

10

Google Maps and Google Places Autocomplete API with Rails, Turbolinks, and Stimulus.js

#339 · Apr 06, 2020

Learn how to implement Google Maps and the Google Places Autocomplete API in Rails compatible with Turbolinks using StimulusJS

8

Multiuser Live Video Chat in Rails

#350 · Jun 16, 2020

Using Vonage (previously known as OpenTok), we can add multiuser live video chat to Rails in just 20 minutes. It also supports broadcasting things like webinars, recording videos, and more.

11

How to translate and localize apps with Rails Internationalization (18n)

#358 · Aug 11, 2020

Translating and localizing your app is important to make it accessible to users around the world. Rails provides internationalization (I18n) tools to make this easier and it's got a lot of cool tricks available.

18

How to add Notifications to Rails with Noticed

#359 · Aug 17, 2020

Noticed is my new gem for adding notifications to Rails apps. Notifications are really complicated to build and we've done the heavy lifting for you.

35

How to Submit Complex Form Data in Ruby on Rails

#364 · Sep 21, 2020 Pro

It's a common situation that we need to submit complex data in our forms in our Rails apps. We'll explore how can we transform the simple values browser forms allow and convert them into something Rails can use and transform into Ruby objects.

4

Advanced Flash Messages with Buttons & Actions in Rails

#365 · 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!

4

Require Work Email Address on Registration

#368 · Oct 28, 2020 Pro

Ever wanted to restrict user registrations to an account's work email or corporate email domains in your Rails app? It's a lot simpler than you might think.

3

Bulk Operations in Rails

#369 · Nov 04, 2020 Pro

Bulk operations like "delete all", "publish all", etc require a little bit of Javascript and a special controller for handling them.

10

Slug History & Redirecting Old Slugs with FriendlyID

#381 · Jan 25, 2021 Pro

Updating slugs

1

Link To Current Page With Params

#270 · Nov 08, 2018

Learn how to link to the current page and add, remove, or modify params in the URL. This is handy for things like search or index pages with filters.

3

Sharing Cookies with Subdomains in Rails

#386 · Mar 01, 2021

Want to login your user across all subdomains in your Rails app? Here's how.

14

Contrasting Colors with YIQ and Helper Tests in Rails

#393 · Apr 23, 2021

Ever wondered how to generate contrasting colors in your Rails app? It's easy using the YIQ calculation and we can test it easily with helper tests.

5

Email Unsubscribe Links with ActionMailer in Rails

#399 · Jun 01, 2021 Pro

Ever wondered how to add the Unsubscribe link to your emails? We can do that using ActinoMailer in Rails with the List-Unsubscribe header and GlobalID

12

Dynamic Authorization Roles with Pundit

#407 · Jul 27, 2021 Pro

Want users to be able to define different roles for users on their account? You can easily accomplish this with a Role model and Pundit

5

How to use Kredis with Rails

#425 · Dec 13, 2021

Learn how to use Kredis and see it works by implementing a recent searches unique list

2

How to add Search in Rails using Meilisearch

#433 · Feb 14, 2022

Meilisearch is an open source search engine written in Rust that integrates nicely with Rails to provide advanced search capabilities similar to ElasticSearch.

9

How to add Feature Flags in Rails with the Flipper gem

#435 · Feb 25, 2022

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.

1

Domain & Subdomain Routing Constraints in Rails

#445 · May 09, 2022 Pro

Learn how to apply advanced routing constraints such as domain, subdomain, user authentication, and more. We'll explore how to use custom constraints for routing multi-tenant Rails applications based upon subdomain and domain too.

5

How to add a Command Palette to your Ruby on Rails app

#447 · May 23, 2022

A command palette is a common feature for power users. Learn how to add a command palette to your Ruby on Rails app using the Ninja Keys web component.

3

Polymorphic Selects in Rails using GlobalIDs

#449 · Jun 06, 2022 Pro

Using Signed GlobalIDs, we can create polymorphic select boxes in Rails to easily choose a record of any type. This is also secured by using signed global IDs to prevent tampering by malicious users.

3

How to use hCaptcha with Ruby on Rails, Turbo, and Stimulus.js

#454 · Aug 01, 2022 Pro

hCaptcha is a method to try detecting bots on your website. This episode, we'll walk through how to implement hCaptcha in a way that's compatible with Turbo using Stimulus.js and

4

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