x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

Drifting Ruby Screencasts

Every week you will be treated to a new Drifting Ruby episode featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails, the popular web development framework. These screencasts are short and focus on one technique so you can quickly move on to applying it to your own project. The topics are geared toward the intermediate Rails developer, but beginners and experts will get something out of it as well.

technology software how-to

All Episodes

11:34

Omarchy

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/10/05

Omarchy is an omakase distribution based on Arch Linux and the tiling window manager Hyprland. It ships with just about everything a modern software developer needs to be productive immediately.

en

18:36

RubyMine

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/09/07

I haven't used RubyMine in several years, but a recent announcement from JetBrains have now opened up access for free with non-commercial products. In this episode, I'm taking a fresh look at RubyMine after years of not using it.

en

12:16

Model Context Protocol

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/08/03

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an API interface for your applications that are formatted in a way that machine learning platforms can interact with them. They can be used to generate AI insights, perform tasks based on user input or other things.

en

15:55

Dependent Select

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/07/06

In this episode, we explore how to enhance standard select fields using a JavaScript library together with StimulusJS to create more dynamic and responsive dropdowns. The focus is on adding search functionality, handling dependent selections, and integrating smoothly with modern frontend setups.

en

7:48

Marksmith

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/06/01

Easily add Markdown support to your Rails applications with Marksmith. This isn't a drop-in replacement to ActionText, but can be used with text or blob columns. Marksmith integrates easily with ActiveStorage for handling file uploads. In this episode, we'll explore setting up Marksmith and some best practices.

en

13:42

Scaffold Templates

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/05/04

In this episode, we explore using the scaffold generator and modifying the templates to simplify the creation of consistent, Tailwind CSS-styled views and controllers in a Rails application, saving time when prototyping and building new features.

en

13:33

Boolean vs Datetime

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/04/06

In this episode, we look at refactoring an existing application where it uses a boolean to determine if a post is published or unpublished. However, this feature has its limitations, so we change the functionality to work off of a datetime column instead.

en

17:28

Vibe Coding

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/04/01

Time to stop hiring $100k/year developers and hire an intern for $10k/year and pay $100/year for an AI Agent. The intern doesn't even need to understand the code it is generating and just help guide it to the solution. Sadly, this has to be said because people do not watch the content. This is satire.

en

18:23

Conditional Queue

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/03/02

In this episode we look at processing background jobs in a way that can conditionally send the work to be processed to different queues. This can be very powerful in situations where you need to process the job in different ways or send requests to different APIs.

en

13:45

Outlets and Permanent Tags

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/02/02

In this episode, we'll explore how we can add a "global" music player that will persist across different pages. Our approach will be unobtrusive and implemented in a maintainable way.

en

13:24

Skeleton Frames

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/01/05

In this episode, we look at implementing a temporary loader for turbo frame tags to give a visual of data that is loading.

en

13:23

Kamal Database Backups

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/12/01

In this episode, we look at some precautions we can take with our production environment and setup recurring backups for the database.

en

31:57

Kamal Kitchen Sink

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/11/03

In this episode, we look at creating an entire infrastructure (proxy, load balancer, app servers, worker servers, database server, and a storage server) on our own hardware use Kamal to provision and deploy our Ruby on Rails application.

en

22:55

Kamal 2

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/10/06

In this episode we look at deploying a Rails 8 beta application to a Digital Ocean droplet. We'll also look at a scenario of deploying Action Cable broadcasts and another with recurring background jobs.

en

20:10

Dependent Fields with Hotwire

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/09/01

Large forms can be overwhelming to fill out, especially if not all of the fields are required. In this episode, we'll look at creating a stimulus controller to conditionally display fields based on the input of another field.

en

20:55

Processing Large Jobs

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/08/04

In this episode, we will upload a CSV file but need to pass it into a background job. This can prove to be difficult based on the hosting infrastructure so we'll explore some mechanisms to work around them. We'll also look to optimize Solid Queue to handle the large number of jobs.

en

15:10

Tracking Writebook Changes

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/07/07

In this episode, we look at setting up a mechanism to track the changes from an externally developed product. We'll also discuss branching strategies and how to develop your own features on top of Writebook.

en

13:34

Hotwire Combobox

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/06/02

In this episode, we tackle the issue of slow-loading dropdowns with a high volume of options by implementing an asynchronous select using the Hotwire Combobox library.

en

9:47

Tips and Tricks

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/05/05

In this episode, we look at various tricks in Ruby on Rails as well as some other neat tricks.

en

16:05

Windows and WSL

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/04/07

In this episode, we'll look at setting up a fresh Windows 11 environment for Ruby on Rails development. We'll be looking at a few different tricks that makes managing a Windows environment much easier.

en

32 results

Similar Podcasts

Lead With AI

Tamara Nall

Linux in the Ham Shack

Black Sparrow Media

Data Engineering Podcast

Tobias Macey

Eye On A.I.

Craig S. Smith

Reflections

Livewire Labs