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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.

  • 13 minutes 23 seconds
    Kamal Database Backups
    In this episode, we look at some precautions we can take with our production environment and setup recurring backups for the database.
    1 December 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 31 minutes 57 seconds
    Kamal Kitchen Sink
    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.
    3 November 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 22 minutes 55 seconds
    Kamal 2
    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.
    6 October 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 20 minutes 10 seconds
    Dependent Fields with Hotwire
    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.
    1 September 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 20 minutes 55 seconds
    Processing Large Jobs
    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.
    4 August 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 15 minutes 10 seconds
    Tracking Writebook Changes
    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.
    7 July 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 13 minutes 34 seconds
    Hotwire Combobox
    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.
    2 June 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 9 minutes 47 seconds
    Tips and Tricks
    In this episode, we look at various tricks in Ruby on Rails as well as some other neat tricks.
    5 May 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 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
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