Chris Oliver

Like Janko said, you can do uploads to your server or to S3 with Shrine just like you would with Carrierwave. Shrine can do everything you could do in Carrierwave (and better in my opinion) so I would recommend using it for everything.

My recommendation would be to never setup your files to upload to your server's filesystem unless it's a hobby project. You'd have to migrate the files once your harddrive is full and that's no fun.

With S3, you have two options:

1. You can upload your files to your Rails server and Shrine will send them over to S3.
2. You can directly upload files to S3 like I showed in this video.

The first option is simpler because you just have to configure Shrine to do the upload to S3.

Direct uploads use your user's browser to upload straight to S3 and it skips your server. That means the direct uploads are faster, but they're a fair amount more work (like you see in the video).

The simplest and best option to get started is to simply use S3 (#1) for both the cache and store for Shrine. You don't have to build any of the Javascript stuff right away and all your uploads will be saved to S3. When you're ready, you can add in the Javascript portion for direct uploads in order to make them upload faster. Since you'd already be using S3, it's a simple change this way.

It's missing setting the last_read_at when you join a new channel. Should be in the chatroom_users controller.

Check out the code on Github, we fixed that bug in the repository. 👍

I'm a few days behind catching up on the forum. Great to see you got it working! Having the quantity being passed over sure helps. :) Took a while to debug, but I bet it feels good to have figured it out!

Ah yep. Hmm, so I guess then the thing to do is debug why @chatroom_user is set to nil instead of a record. Does your chatrooms#show set the @chatroom_user record? https://github.com/gorails-screencasts/chatrooms/blob/master/app/controllers/chatrooms_controller.rb#L14

Yeah, that was one of those weird things that jQuery does. It'll work as you might think, but not completely. If you were writing this with plain JS, you'd use the same code as I did in my solution basically. No funny business that way.

Hey Martin!

This is actually a small bug you find in the JS for that episode. The append() in handleChange works fine for adding plain strings, but not HTML ones to the value of the inputs. If you change the append line to the following, you'll see that it works just fine:

    comment_body.val comment_body.val() + saved_message_text

This is a better way of adding text to a field, where you set the value to the old value plus your new text. Append seems to do that, but not when there is html that you want to add for some reason.

I updated the repository to fix that bug as well. 👍

Hey! I believe that should be just

><% current_user.chatrooms.each do |chatroom| %>

because we didn't build anything called "public_channels" I don't believe.

You can find that line in the github repo here: https://github.com/gorails-...

I believe I introduced a bug related to this at one point which you might be running into. Check out the code on Github in the notes on the episode and you might spot the fix I introduced. Can't remember exactly what it was.

Ah, so the error is saying your @chatroom_user record is nil (didn't get saved for some reason) and therefore your last_read_at didn't work. Slight different than the error I was originally thinking of. Check your @chatroom_user gets set properly in the controller and why that might not be set.

Yep, that looks right. Your Rails app doesn't seem to know that exists though which means there's some discrepancy. Maybe try restarting your Rails server in case it didn't pickup the migration or there might be a typo somewhere I'm not noticing.

Or maybe you've got a different error than the one I'm assuming you've got. Can you paste the full error?

If it's a no method error, make sure you ran the migration to add that column to the ChatroomUser model. The no method error usually comes up when a column doesn't exist that you try to access.

Actually ice_cube has yaml, hash, and ical exports so that probably makes it a better solution at the moment over Montrose for this purpose. I'll probably try to cover both and not the differences between them.

Ah yes, that's one of those special cases that can be hard to solve. I'll try to cover that use case in the episode or a follow up if I can. I think what you'd want to do in that case is to save that date like a non-recurring event and then add an exception to the recurring events for to skip that date. Kind of confusing, but should do the trick assuming they can handle that.

Looking forward to covering this finally. I should have done this months ago. ;)

I'm going to put it on my recording schedule to record this week.

Yes! This has been on my todo list for far too long. I will most likely be using the https://github.com/rossta/montrose gem for this because it helps generate those future dates and things really nicely. This doesn't really have anything related to saving these objects to the database, so I think that would be hugely valuable along with some simple_calendar support. :D

Just update the Mailboxer config to disable sending emails and you should be all set:

  config.uses_emails = false

Interesting. I've seen some odd things with caching in the browser sometimes and that could definitely do it. Plus they update Chrome so often these days that you never know when they might introduce a small bug or something.

Very glad you're enjoying the series. I had a lot of fun making it! 😎

Ah ha! That would do it! Good find. 👍

Haven't seen this myself. What logs are in your Javascript console?

Hard to say off the top of my head. You might just need to put in some more debugging lines to make sure that everything is connecting correctly. Make sure that 1) the JS connects to the websocket by watching the Chrome network logs 2) Make sure that your server side background job is executing by printing out in your logs 3) Make sure your user is connected to the channel so their websocket streams from it correctly.

Probably something small isn't connected right and it should be an easy fix once you figure out what it is. Also here's the link to the final app code for this that might be of help: https://github.com/gorails-...