Popular Rails Gems Series

Learn how CSS and Javascript frameworks should be added to Rails applications

20

5 minutes

Debugging With BetterErrors

#8 · Jul 07, 2014

A look at how to supercharge your debugging and solve errors faster than ever

17

22 minutes

Pretty urls with FriendlyID

#9 · Jul 07, 2014

Techniques for taking your database models and using attributes to generate pretty urls

26

9 minutes

Pagination with will_paginate

#10 · Jul 07, 2014

A look into how pagination works from scratch and how to use will_paginate

13

23 minutes

File Uploading with Carrierwave

#11 · Jul 07, 2014

Using Rails to upload files manually and how you can do it even cleaner using Carrierwave

25

19 minutes

User Authentication with Devise

#12 · Jul 07, 2014

A look into user accounts, registration, login, forgot your password, and more

3

6 minutes

Keeping track with Annotate

#13 · Jul 07, 2014

Learn how to keep track of your database models and attributes with comments in your application

10

32 minutes

Sending emails with Mandrill

#14 · Jul 07, 2014

Advanced techniques on sending emails over SMTP with local views and Mandrill's API with remote templates

50

23 minutes

Authorization With CanCanCan

#20 · Aug 18, 2014 Pro

A look into the popular CanCanCan library to add authorization to your Rails app

24

20 minutes

Authorization with Pundit

#22 · Sep 01, 2014 Pro

A guide to authorization with Pundit including a walkthrough of how to lock down your application, actions, and use default policies

29

16 minutes

Soft Delete with Paranoia

#41 · Feb 05, 2015

Learn how to soft delete records instead of deleting them permanently from your database

19

18 minutes

Newsletter Sign Up Form with country_select

#49 · Apr 04, 2015

How to plan and build a newsletter sign up form

18

26 minutes

The State_Machine Gem

#85 · Aug 20, 2015

Learn how to use the state_machine gem to keep track of objects in your Rails apps

10

17 minutes

Using ActiveAdmin to Build an Admin UI

#164 · Dec 28, 2016

Learn how to build a dedicated admin area in your Rails app for editing records by admins using the ActiveAdmin gem

23

27 minutes

How to Migrate from Paperclip to Rails ActiveStorage

#243 · May 08, 2018

Now that the Paperclip gem has been deprecated, it's recommended that you migrate your apps to ActiveStorage

14

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Styling with Bootstrap Sass

#7 · Jul 07, 2014