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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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8:35

Native Dialog

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2026/09/06

In this episode, we have a look at using native dialogs and popovers in our Rails application. No external libraries necessary!

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12:11

Function Calling

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2026/08/02

In this episode, we look at adding function calling or tool use to our Rails application when making generative text LLM requests.

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10:46

Claude Skills

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2026/07/05

In this episode, we look at creating Claude slash commands. These can be useful when dealing with a complicated task or trying to extract certain information from the application.

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13:40

Polling for New Records

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2026/06/07

Websockets are great, but they are not always the right approach. In this episode, we will look at implementing a long polling for new records.

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17:29

Ten Years of Frontend

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2026/05/03

In this episode, we look at where we were years ago and the journey where we have landed today. Over the past 10 years, much has changed with our approach to client interactions and in the episode we explore my favorite and current approach.

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3:22

Easter Eggs

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2026/04/05

Easter Eggs are often ways that developers can have fun by hiding little gems in the code base or provide additional fun without affecting the function of the application. In this episode, we'll explore some of the little easter eggs in the Rails code base.

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6:54

N+1 Driven Development

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2026/04/01

In this episode, we look at how we can modify our application from a performance aspect to increase our job security. We'll slow down our application to a still usable level, but then swoop in months later and become the hero.

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19:05

Optimizations

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2026/03/01

In this episode, we look at a few different ways of improving the speed of a page. There are many paths to take. Some of them leaves a lot of optimizations on the table, whereas others are premature and adds complexity.

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23:50

Claude Code

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2026/02/01

In this episode, we look at how to use Claude Code to assist us in developing Rails applications. This is not about vibe coding, but using tools to assist our development efforts.

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14:21

Self Hosted App

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2026/01/04

In this episode, we'll go from a fresh Rails 8 application and a newly provisioned Raspberry Pi to deploying the application on the PI. We'll also set up a domain to point to this application and put in place geo restrictions to help prevent unwanted access.

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20:23

Cool Things in Fizzy

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/12/07

In this episode, we look deploying Fizzy to a server and look at some of the notable practices found in the code.

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11:06

Failover Requests

Drifting Ruby Screencasts ·

2025/11/02

In this episode, we look at creating a failover mechanism for API requests. This can be a handy trick in situations where you want to add fault tolerance to an API request. We'll use the example of the Ollama Cloud as a failover to a locally hosted instance of Ollama.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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