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Templating Ruby on Rails Applications

#163 Dec 9, 2018 pro

There is a lot of work that is done on new applications and a lot of the common code between new applications. In this episode, we look at using templates to speed up the initial process.

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Creating a Simple Slack Bot

#162 Dec 2, 2018 free

Slack is a great application to keep in contact with friends, coworkers and a community. With bots, its capabilities are endless. In this episode, learn how to create a Slack Bot to interact with.

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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

Grab Bag of Ruby and Ruby on Rails Tricks

#158 Nov 4, 2018 free

In this episode, we look at various tips and tricks.

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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

Service Objects for API Interactions with Twilio

#154 Oct 7, 2018 free

In this episode, learn how to extract the interactions with an external API into a service object so that code is isolated and interchangeable.

rails ruby api service objects

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