Chris Oliver

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Great work Mike! URL shortener is such a fun project to build in Rails. 👍

The Rails 6.0 to 6.1 is really simple, so you should be fine upgrading. 👍

The update task is pretty easy: bin/rails app:update

And of course, all the details are here: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.html

Make sure you're using the latest Rails version. I don't think this works in older Rails versions.

I just updated this lesson for Omniauth 2.0. 👍

This episode has been updated for Omniauth 2.0. 👍

Two options that come to mind are:

1. Have the link go through your Rails app, track the click, and then redirect to the URL (also get to hide the URL this way)
2. Use Javascript to record the event on click (you could use Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Ahoy, etc)

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Using RVM is just fine! Don't worry about switching to rbenv if you're already on RVM.

Post this on the Pay issues. 👍

The timing widget on the page is Rack Mini Profiler: https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler

You can query the database if you are using the database delivery method.

Turbo:load runs when a page loads, not a frame. It's the same as the old turbolinks event. Frames are independent from page views which means you need to setup a Stimulus controller instead.

Check out stimulus-flatpickr and you won't have to build anything. 👍

https://github.com/adrienpoly/stimulus-flatpickr

No screencast yet, but their readme is pretty well documented. 👍

Rails comes with the webdrivers gem now and you should use that now. It makes things a lot easier. In fact, there's nothing you have to setup other than just installing the gem (unless you want to customize it).

https://github.com/titusfortner/webdrivers

You can run rails db:migrate to run all the migrations in the db/migrate folder. That will make sure all your database tables are created. It won't restore any data, just the tables and columns though.

rails db:seed will populate the database with example records (assuming there is code to create records in db/seeds.rb. 👍

Upgrading from 4.2 to 5.2 to 6.1 would certainly give you some thorough testing of the changes and would be a bit less daunting.

You can probably upgrade straight to 6.1, but you'll want to go through all the upgrade notes to make sure you know of all the changes between. Things like belongs_to being required by default might catch you off guard if you skip straight to the latest version and miss that in the Rails 5 release notes. 😅

Hey Daniel,

There's a concept called OEmbed that was designed to let services define their own embed codes. You just give their site the URL you want to embed and then send you JSON back on how to embed it.

There's a Ruby library for it that is pretty useful: https://github.com/ruby-oembed/ruby-oembed

This is the approach I'm using on Jumpstart Pro to provide embed codes in ActionText.

@sweedledee there's not a lot of good examples out there! I did a lot of the Testing Rails series in Minitest which is a start. The Rails test suite is where I learned a good bit if you feel like digging through the repository.

I bought betterminitest.com to document common use cases and need to start putting that site together!

That was the first thing I did when I added Noticed to JumpstartRails.com :)

Conceptually all you need to do is:

1. Add a dropdown for notifications
2. Setup notifications to use Database + Websocket delivery methods
3. Have Javascript listen to the websocket and insert the notification when a new one is received
4. Add the red dot to the HTML
5. Remove the red dot when opening the dropdown