Chris Oliver

Awesome work John! :) I've done that exact same thing in a few apps and it works nicely. That's going to be the most efficient way to do that because you will not know which records have been deleted (or whatever), so you'll always need to do the query to safely retrieve the associated record.

Ha, wow that's a subtle one. You'd think that it would automatically strip out spaces at the end of the filename by 2016. ;)

I don't believe so. It sounds like the normal error you get when trying to require a file that doesn't exist, although you have created it locally it sounds like. Possibly a typo in your filename?

The turbolinks/compatibility.coffee file doesn't ship with the gem unfortunately (at least not right now). You'll have to copy it into your Rails app from the original repo. I've got a link to it in the resources section above, but here's the link as well: https://github.com/turbolin... Paste that into your Rails app and just require the file like normal and you should be set.

That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking! Glad that worked out pretty well.

The error says you've already created the companydemo tenant. I think the thing you're going to run into here is making sure you architect your tests properly to create and operate on a tenant and safely revert them as necessary. You'll need to add cleanup methods in your tests to make sure that once you're done using the tenant that it gets dropped. That's basically the only changes you'll need to do aside from setting up your other tests to already have a tenant setup, migrated, and selected.

Kind of unfortunate as a lot of apps I run are in the same predicament.

One of my good friends works at MailJet and was telling me about all the things they're doing and they offer a free 6000 emails a month. https://www.mailjet.com/pricing_v3 They're like both Mailchimp and Mandrill combined, not just transactional email which is super nice in case you want to do marketing stuff as well. I think I'm going to be trying them out personally. They've been mostly focused on Europe in the past so most people haven't heard of them as much.

Of course there are all the other options: Sendgrid, Postmark, etc. I don't think you can really go wrong with any of them. I like Postmark a lot and Sendgrid is a powerhouse for transactional email that everyone knows.

I don't entirely know how the attachments feature in Mailboxer works so I can only give you a rough idea of the direction to go. I think you could probably override the Mailboxer::Conversation model in your app and then add Refile into it if you didn't want to use Carrierwave. That should let you do what you want there.

If you want to send these on a regular basis, cron jobs are perfect for that. You can just set it up to run weekly and notify users from a rake task. Easy to test and maintain. I did an episode on that a while back: https://gorails.com/episodes/cron-jobs-with-whenever-gem?autoplay=1

Otherwise if you want it to happen on a trigger in-app like a notification every time a new profile is created, you can just put the logic in your controller to check who should receive the notification and then send that out. This sort of thing is a good case for using a service object (just a regular ruby class that contains the logic for it).

Pros are you get a lot of helpers for making basic forms quicker, downside is that I often customize my forms a lot so you can't really use their helpers all the time and it's also another API to continuously memorize. I use them in things like Admin areas or forms that don't need much UI work, but other than that, I tend to just use the normal form helpers and tags.

Check out this episode! https://gorails.com/episodes/forum-nested-attributes-and-fields-for It covers how to do that with the form and params in order to properly set everything up.

Aww that sucks. Keep us posted on how it goes. I'll have to do a more in-depth episode for this stuff. Some of those themes can be really, really complex. They basically market the theme as having absolutely any feature you can imagine, but that ends up with a seriously messy theme.

Yep of course! The same reason that you have to build your own controllers and views with mailboxer is the same reason why it will work perfectly with ActionCable. It really just handles the database side of things, which ties in perfectly with ActionCable. You'll still need to build the channels and everything, but it should work without a problem. Going to be covering this in a future episode as well.

I actually just continue hitting escape. It's a bit easier to reach on the Mac keyboard, so I haven't remapped it. I know a lot of people will play around with replacing caps lock for things like that or the leader key.

The thing about these gems is that they're probably quite simple if they're parsing out hashtags. Not too much to it which is nice and means they probably don't need a lot of maintenance.

I actually have never used any, but if you do end up using one, I'd love to hear how it goes!

If you need an admin to create other users, you can make a new controller that only the admin can access to create the other users. I would recommend using devise_invitable to send invitiations to those users. This sort of setup would let you add other users and set their roles. You can then authorize this controller to only allow admins to add users.

# You don't want this to conflict with devise URLs, so we namespace it
namespace :settings do
  routes :users
end

class Settings::UsersController < ApplicationController
  def create
    User.invite!(user_params)
  end

  private

    def user_params
      params.require(:user).permit(:email, :role)
    end
end

This sounds like a good use case for just a single User model with roles. Everyone can login from the same spot and then based upon their role, they can access various different things. The benefit of doing roles is that you can easily re-assign people jobs rather than having them have separate accounts to login with each time.

I haven't done an episode on this (yet!) but Rolify is a pretty good starting point unless you want to build something from scratch. https://github.com/RolifyCommunity/rolify

That's interesting. I wonder if there's special stuff in Turbolinks for that because they know the title of the page will always change, therefore they should update the title?

It sounds like you need to verify your domain ownership. Check the note at the bottom here: https://mandrill.zendesk.co...

Maybe they both support -C? Sidekiq's docs still show the capital one. https://github.com/mperham/...

Thanks man! And please do. I'm definitely wanting to correct that on here as well, but it'll probably be a low priority for a while unfortunately. Really hope it works for you so I can do the same sort of thing here.