Drifting Ruby
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Every week you will be treated to a new Drifting Ruby episode featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails, the popular web development framework. These screencasts are short and focus on one technique so you can quickly move on to applying it to your own project. The topics are geared toward the intermediate Rails developer, but beginners and experts will get something out of it as well.
Drifting Ruby
2w ago
In this episode, we'll look at setting up a fresh Windows 11 environment for Ruby on Rails development. We'll be looking at a few different tricks that makes managing a Windows environment much easier ..read more
Drifting Ruby
3w ago
Ever wonder how you could add audio to interactions on a website. In this episode, we'll explore adding sounds whenever someone clicks on a link or button ..read more
Drifting Ruby
1M ago
In this episode, we look at running a self hosted Large Language Model (LLM) and consuming it with a Rails application. We will use a background to make API requests to the LLM and then stream the responses in real-time to the browser ..read more
Drifting Ruby
2M ago
In this episode, we look at some of the design patterns that are used in Campfire and my take on why they took this approach. We'll explore some of the code organization, search functionality, and more ..read more
Drifting Ruby
3M ago
In this episode, we explore the Campfire code from 37signals' Once product line. We'll install the product and grab the code base to get it up and running on our development environment ..read more
Drifting Ruby
3M ago
With Turbo 8 comes a lot of new features and in this episode, we'll explore an upgrading a blog post with comments to add in the new functionality ..read more
Drifting Ruby
5M ago
Keyboard shortcuts, or Hotkeys, can provide a great experience to users of an application. In this episode, we will use a stimulus wrapper around this library to use within our Ruby on Rails application ..read more
Drifting Ruby
6M ago
We can create a small python service that uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to detect if a message is spam or not. Using this service, we can tie it into our Rails application so that any comment created will be evaluated for being spam or not. We explore a few different routes on handling any messages flagged as spam ..read more
Drifting Ruby
7M ago
Stripe Checkout is one of my favorite ways to handle payments in Ruby on Rails applications. Stripe Checkouts will soon have an option to embed the Checkout into your web application. In this episode, we'll look at implementing this feature with a StimulusJS controller ..read more
Drifting Ruby
8M ago
A special release to celebrate 418 episodes. I talk about different HTTP response codes ..read more