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Development Approach

#497 Feb 23, 2025 pro

Working with 3rd party integrations can be time consuming, complicated and we can take many different approaches when creating a proof of concept. In this episode, we're going to look at creating a development environment with Jupyter Notebooks so that we can iterate fast and remove a lot of the complexities of our application.

rails development api

9:47 CC

Frozen String Literal

#496 Feb 16, 2025 pro

In this episode, we're going to look at the magic comment frozen_literal_string and what it does. We're going to look at various behaviors and migration paths to prepare your application for future versions of Ruby.

rails ruby strings

8:20 CC

Normalizes

#495 Feb 9, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll have a look at various approaches to data consistency and why it could be important to normalize the data. We'll look at and old approach and a more current one along with the caveats associated with each of them.

rails data model

13:45 CC

Outlets and Permanent Tags

#494 Feb 2, 2025 free

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.

rails view stimulusjs outlets

17:47 CC

Password Strength

#493 Jan 26, 2025 pro

In this episode, we will use the Rails 8 authentication generator and add a stimulus controller to show the strength of a password when signing up for an account. This functionality will work with Devise, ActionAuth and other authentication solutions as well.

rails authentication stimulusjs security

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