Drifting Ruby Screencasts

Dave Kimura

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.

  • 16 minutes 5 seconds
    Windows and WSL
    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.
    7 April 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 5 minutes 44 seconds
    Fart
    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.
    1 April 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 24 minutes 10 seconds
    Streaming LLM Responses
    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.
    3 March 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 15 minutes 4 seconds
    Campfire Patterns
    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!
    4 February 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 11 minutes 40 seconds
    Exploring Campfire
    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.
    24 January 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 26 minutes 16 seconds
    Turbo 8
    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.
    7 January 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 9 minutes 19 seconds
    Hotkeys
    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.
    3 December 2023, 2:00 pm
  • 29 minutes 22 seconds
    Detect Spam with AI
    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.
    5 November 2023, 2:00 pm
  • 19 minutes 11 seconds
    Embedding Stripe Checkout
    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.
    1 October 2023, 2:00 pm
  • 8 minutes 14 seconds
    I'm a teapot
    A special release to celebrate 418 episodes. I talk about different HTTP response codes.
    6 September 2023, 2:00 pm
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