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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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5:44

Fart

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/04/01

Ever wonder how you could add audio to interactions on a website. In this episode, we'll explore adding sounds whenever someone clicks on a link or button.

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24:10

Streaming LLM Responses

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/03/03

In this episode, we look at running a self hosted Large Language Model (LLM) and consuming it with a Rails application. We will use a background to make API requests to the LLM and then stream the responses in real-time to the browser.

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15:04

Campfire Patterns

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/02/04

In this episode, we look at some of the design patterns that are used in Campfire and my take on why they took this approach. We'll explore some of the code organization, search functionality, and more!

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11:40

Exploring Campfire

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/01/24

In this episode, we explore the Campfire code from 37signals' Once product line. We'll install the product and grab the code base to get it up and running on our development environment.

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26:16

Turbo 8

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2024/01/07

With Turbo 8 comes a lot of new features and in this episode, we'll explore an upgrading a blog post with comments to add in the new functionality.

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9:19

Hotkeys

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2023/12/03

Keyboard shortcuts, or Hotkeys, can provide a great experience to users of an application. In this episode, we will use a stimulus wrapper around this library to use within our Ruby on Rails application.

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29:22

Detect Spam with AI

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2023/11/05

We can create a small python service that uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to detect if a message is spam or not. Using this service, we can tie it into our Rails application so that any comment created will be evaluated for being spam or not. We explore a few different routes on handling any messages flagged as spam.

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19:11

Embedding Stripe Checkout

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2023/10/01

Stripe Checkout is one of my favorite ways to handle payments in Ruby on Rails applications. Stripe Checkouts will soon have an option to embed the Checkout into your web application. In this episode, we'll look at implementing this feature with a StimulusJS controller.

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