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Refactoring Models

#161 Nov 25, 2018 pro

Sometimes our models get so large that they become unmaintainable. In this episode, we look at how we can slim down the size of the models without losing functionality.

rails model refactor series - social media

Development Decisions and Architecture

#160 Nov 18, 2018 pro

Decisions made during the development process can significantly affect how the production environment is architected. In this episode, we look at a few different scenarios and how the early decisions made in development affected the production infrastructure.

development rails ruby architecture

Activity Feed with Public Activity

#159 Nov 11, 2018 pro

Add an activity feed to your application with Public Activity.

rails model series - social media

Nested Comments from Scratch

#157 Oct 28, 2018 pro

Using polymorphic associations, we can have comments assigned to a post as well as comments assigned to other comments.

rails model polymorphic associations series - social media

Friend Requests Views, Controllers, and Model Methods

#156 Oct 21, 2018 pro

Part II - In this episode, we create performant links for adding, accepting/rejecting and removing friends for our social media application.

view rails model series - social media controller

Friend Requests From Scratch

#155 Oct 14, 2018 pro

Part I - In this episode, we create our authentication for users, default view for authenticated users, friendship model, associations and scopes for our social media application.

rails model security series - social media

Bundler and Binstubs

#153 Sep 30, 2018 pro

In this episode, we look at some lesser known bundler commands including binstubs.

rails ruby gem

Deeper Dive into StimulusJS

#152 Sep 23, 2018 pro

In this episode, we look at combining Rails UJS, nested routes, scopes and StimulusJS. A deep dive from the beginning to completion of multiple select boxes changing based on their selections.

rails model ajax javascript framework stimulusjs

Safely Running Shell Commands

#151 Sep 16, 2018 pro

We may come across a need to run shell commands and Ruby has some built in methods which appear safe, but can introduce major security risks.

rails security ruby

Database, Model and Scopes

#150 Sep 9, 2018 pro

In this episode, we take a look at some tips and tricks around the database schema and model scopes.

rails model database

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