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Materialized Views in PostgreSQL

#324 Nov 21, 2021 pro

Using Scenic, you can bring the power of SQL views to your Rails application without having to switch your schema format to SQL. Scenic provides a convention for versioning views that keeps your migration history consistent and reversible and avoids having to duplicate SQL strings across migrations.

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Fixing Assets in CSS Bundling for Rails

#323 Nov 14, 2021 pro

CSS Bundling for Rails provides a new way for importing and managing our CSS assets in Rails Applications, but it does have some challenges around a few libraries (specifically font awesome and a few others) which we'll look at in this episode.

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Authentication with Sorcery

#321 Oct 31, 2021 pro

Sorcery is a stripped-down, bare-bones authentication library, with which you can write your own authentication flow. In this episode we look at creating the controllers and views for a simple authentication solution.

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Docker on Rails 7

#320 Oct 24, 2021 pro

In this episode, we look at changing the default Rails 7 development environment over to a Docker based environment.

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From Webpacker to esbuild

#319 Oct 17, 2021 pro

With Rails 7 coming out soon, it's a good time to look at what it could take to upgrade our existing applications to esbuild. In this episode, we start with a Rails 6 application and begin the upgrade process by removing Webpacker and switching over to esbuild.

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Modern Chat Feature

#318 Oct 10, 2021 pro

In this episode, we create a chat application using Rails 7, esbuild (JS Bundling), CSS Bundling, Hotwire, and Action Text. We also dive into some issues around CSS Bundling and Action Text.

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Reset Password from Scratch

#316 Sep 26, 2021 pro

Continuing from Episode 300, we look at creating a password reset feature. We explore some of the security concerns around this feature and some mitigating options.

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Securing Downloads with Global ID

#315 Sep 19, 2021 pro

With custom controllers and Global ID, we can lock down Active Storage files to provide a link which expires after a duration of time. At the beginning of the video, I tour the new Rails 7 template and configuration that will be used for episodes going forward.

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Logging in Rails

#314 Sep 12, 2021 pro

Logging is an important part of understanding the behavior of your applications. Your logs contain essential records of application operations including database queries, server requests, and errors.

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Drag and Drop with Hotwire

#311 Aug 29, 2021 pro

Acts as List provides the capabilities for sorting and reordering a number of objects in a list. In combination with SortableJS and Hotwire (Stimulus), we can create a positionable list with ease.

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