Rails Plugins: Engines & Railties

Rails plugins add functionality to multiples Rails apps. Rails plugins are called Railties and Engines. Learn how to create your own by organizing code into Rails engines, building Rubygems with Engines and Railties, and more.

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8 Lessons | 2h 28m | Intermediate

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How to Create & Test a Rails Engine

Feb 22, 2021 Pro

Creating and testing a Rails Engine can seem daunting. In this video, we'll walk through how to create (and test!) a Rails engine from scratch

26m

How to build a Custom Rack Middleware for Rails with Railties

Jan 02, 2023 Pro

Learn how to add a custom Rack middleware to Rails apps with a gem and Railtie. We'll build a simple Rack middleware that intercepts requests to make your app only work during business hours.

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Rails Initialization Internals

Mar 20, 2023 Pro

In this episode, we will learn about how Rails initializers work internally.

24m

Extending Rails (Gently)

Aug 21, 2023

In this episode we discuss how to extend Rails (gently) with Kasper Timm Hansen and a few of his open source gems. The important idea here is for people to try to come up with their own ideas of making Rails better.

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Rubygems Trusted Publishing

May 17, 2024

Rubygems.org released a new feature called Trusted Publishing which allows you to release gems directly from GitHub Actions without requiring 2FA or long-lived API tokens. Let's see how it works!