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Recurring Events with ice_cube

#93 Aug 13, 2017 free

ice_cube is a ruby library for easily handling repeated events and schedules.

rails schedules

Restricting Access by IP Address

#92 Aug 6, 2017 free

Learn to lock down your application or parts of your application by IP Addresses.

rails security

Custom Error Pages with Slack Notification

#91 Jul 30, 2017 free

Learn to use custom error pages to provide a similar look to your application. Get notified on Slack as errors occur to act on them before they're reported.

rails api error background processing

Benchmarking and Refactoring the content_for View Helper

#90 Jul 23, 2017 free

In a recent blog post, we looked into the content_for view helper to render breadcrumbs. Once we got the feature working, it's time to refactor the feature to lower technical debt.

rails performance benchmark refactor

Creating Custom Ruby on Rails Generators

#89 Jul 16, 2017 free

Simplify your workflow by using custom generators to streamline the creation of files and templates that you use often.

rails template

Virtual Columns with JSON Data Types

#88 Jul 9, 2017 free

Continuing from Episode #87, we take a deeper dive into virtual columns in Rails 5.1 and use them to parse JSON Data Types with adding indexes to the virtual column.

rails database json

Virtual Columns in MySQL

#87 Jul 2, 2017 free

In Ruby on Rails 5.1.0, generated virtual column support was added for MySQL and MariaDB. Using generated and stored columns can leverage heavy calculations to the SQL side.