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Grab Bag

Episodes on various topics that don't fit the usual mold.

Series Info

Videos

49

Difficulty

Intermediate

Videos

Organizing Your Asset Pipeline in Development for Speed

#151 · Nov 09, 2016 Pro

Speed up the Rails asset pipeline in development by organizing your assets correctly

13

Adding Turbolinks Compatibility to SimpleMDE Markdown Editor

#152 · Nov 14, 2016 Pro

Learn how to use Javascript constructors and destructors with Turbolinks to add compatilibty to any Javascript library you want

9

Advanced Counter Caching

#176 · Mar 07, 2017 Pro

Add advanced counter caching for soft deletable models, scopes, and has_many relationships

4

Fixing Counter Caches in the Paranoia Gem

#177 · Mar 13, 2017 Pro

A walk through of the process of fixing a popular gem and learning how ActiveRecord and the Paranoia gem works

1

Testing Emails in Development with Mailcatcher

#203 · Aug 21, 2017

Learn how to send emails to a local SMTP server called Mailcatcher for testing and designing emails

9

Uploading Files to DigitalOcean Spaces

#213 · Oct 31, 2017

Learn how to upload files to DigitalOcean's Spaces which is an Amazon S3 compatible file storage API

8

Building A Hosting Platform in Ruby

#228 · Feb 12, 2018

A talk I recently gave for Remote Ruby explaining some of the approaches I use to build Hatchbox.io

11

Debugging & Fixing a Bug in Rails 5.2 Active Storage

#237 · Mar 27, 2018 Pro

A walkthrough of how I debugged and fixed an issue with Rails ActiveStorage that we discovered in the last episode building a Previewer for Powerpoint files

3

Writing Tests for Rack Middleware

#241 · Apr 24, 2018 Pro

In this episode, we add tests for our Basecamp 3 style urls that we built using a Rack middleware

3

How to Build a Slack Slash Command App with Rails

#268 · Oct 23, 2018 Pro

Learn how to implement a Slack Slash Command App in Rails using webhooks

10

How to use AMP with Ruby on Rails

#306 · Aug 08, 2019 Pro

Learn how to add support for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) from Google to Ruby on Rails in this tutorial

2

jQuery UJS Callbacks

#18 · Aug 03, 2014 Pro

An advanced look into jQuery UJS and how to use callbacks to improve your UJS workflow and debugging

15

Solving FizzBuzz in Ruby

#127 · Jul 04, 2016

See how different approaches can affect the code you write using FizzBuzz as an example

16

Consuming an API Using HTTParty and Creating a Gem

#23 · Sep 08, 2014

Learn how to use HTTParty to consume an API and package your library into a gem

32

ActiveSupport Concerns: Making a Soft Deletable module

#42 · Feb 12, 2015 Pro

An introduction to Ruby on Rails ActiveSupport concerns where we build a Soft Deletable module like the Paranoia gem

13

Rails 4.2 Introduction

#21 · Aug 27, 2014

A quick look at the new features of Rails 4.2 in the first beta that was recently released

9

Background Workers with ActiveJob and Sidekiq

#95 · Nov 25, 2015 Pro

Learn how to add background workers to your Rails app using ActiveJob and powering it with Sidekiq

23

Usability And Video Autoplay With Wistia

#82 · Jul 21, 2015 Pro

Learn about video autoplaying with Wistia and how it improves usability

0

Integrating Braintree (and PayPal)

#97 · Dec 13, 2015 Pro

Learn how to accept payments with Braintree, PayPal, Venmo, and Coinbase in Rails

9

Sending Emails with SMTP and Sendgrid

#134 · Aug 17, 2016 Pro

Setup Rails to send emails over SMTP using your Sendgrid account

28

Debugging Performance Problems In Your Views

#54 · May 04, 2015 Pro

Learn how I discovered and solved a performance bug in OneMonth.com's view partial

1

File Uploads in Rails With Shrine

#142 · Sep 23, 2016

Add file uploads to your application with the Shrine gem

27

File Uploads with Refile

#37 · Jan 03, 2015

Learn how to upload files with the newest file upload library on the block: Refile

96

ShareMeow

#101 · Jan 20, 2016

A Ruby microservice to generate Medium.com-style tweet quote images for sharing on social media like Twitter and Facebook

0

What Is A State Machine?

#84 · Aug 20, 2015

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

6

Receiving Webhooks in Development with Ngrok and Docusign

#148 · Oct 18, 2016 Pro

How to develop against webhooks on your local development machine using ngrok and Docusign's API

11

Wrapping Business Logic with Plain Old Ruby Objects

#123 · Jun 13, 2016 Pro

Learn how to pull business logic out of your models and put them into Plain Old Ruby Objects (POROs) in order to clean up your code and keep chunks of business logic in reusable bits.

2

Contributing To Open Source: Fixing A Bug In Devise

#92 · Oct 27, 2015

See how I discovered and fixed a bug in the Devise open source project

8

Metaprogramming Virtual Attributes

#99 · Jan 04, 2016 Pro

Learn the basics of metaprogramming by creating some Rails 5 code on your own

3

Virtual Attributes And Rails 5 Attribute API

#98 · Dec 30, 2015

Learn how you can use virtual attributes to make forms cleaner and how the Rails 5 attribute API can save you a bunch of time

16

Scheduled Cron Jobs with the Whenever Gem

#87 · Sep 01, 2015 Pro

Learn how to run scheduled (nightly, weekly, monthly) jobs using cron on your server with the Whenever gem

6

API Tokens with Devise Token Authenticatable

#35 · Dec 12, 2014 Pro

Learn how to create simple API tokens for authentication with Devise

19

Admin Interfaces with Administrate

#94 · Nov 19, 2015

The new admin gem from Thoughtbot shows some promise for easy to customize admin interfaces in your Rails app

26

Direct Messages in Realtime with ActionCable

#143 · Sep 27, 2016 Pro

Add realtime direct messages between users in our chat application using ActionCable

21

Turbolinks 5 Forms for Mobile

#116 · May 02, 2016 Pro

Learn how to setup forms to work with Turbolinks iOS and Android adapters

8

Button Loading Animations with jQuery UJS

#16 · Jul 21, 2014

Learn how to easily disable the submit button and display a loading animation when a user submits the form

69

PDF Receipts

#51 · Apr 17, 2015

Learn how to add PDF receipts to your application so users can easily download receipts of their purchases

22

Upload Progress with Refile Javascript

#38 · Jan 03, 2015 Pro

Add background uploads and progress easily with Refile's JS library

33

jQuery UJS and AJAX

#17 · Jul 27, 2014

A quick introduction to jQuery UJS and how we can use it to make an AJAX request to render a javascript template from the Rails server

28

Redirect To Current Page After Login

#80 · Jul 18, 2015 Pro

Learn how to redirect your Rails app users to the current page after they login

1

How to Upgrade to Turbolinks 5

#107 · Feb 25, 2016

Learn how to upgrade your Turbolinks 2.5 or 3.0 app to the newest Turbolinks 5

16

Electronic Signatures with the Docusign API

#147 · Oct 13, 2016 Pro

Request documents to be signed electronic using the Docusign API in your Rails app

3

Sign In With Twitter using Omniauth and the Twitter gem

#33 · Nov 20, 2014

Learn how to use Omniauth And omniauth-twitter to let your users authorize and connect to the Twitter API using their Twitter account with your Rails app

38

Sentiment Analysis with the Sentimental Gem

#117 · May 05, 2016

Learn how to use sentimental analysis against text inside your application and cache it so you can query against it later

4

Mitigating Spammers with Recaptcha

#106 · Feb 23, 2016 Pro

Learn how to integrate Google's Recaptcha API into your forms and registration process with Rails

2

Protecting from XSS with Sanitize

#149 · Oct 26, 2016

Protect your Rails application from Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks using the sanitize helper

8

Shrine Backgrounding and Video Transcoding

#150 · Nov 03, 2016 Pro

Transcode videos in the background using Shrine

5

Inviting Users with devise_invitable

#120 · May 23, 2016 Pro

Learn how to invite users to your application with devise_invitable

46

Custom will_paginate Methods

#121 · Jun 02, 2016 Pro

We take the Leaderboard gem and wire it up with custom code to work seamlessly with will_paginate

5

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