
I've come to a point in my career where my knowledge of web development has hit a plateau. I, like many front end developers, are probably used to working wi...
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I've come to a point in my career where my knowledge of web development has hit a plateau. I, like many front end developers, are probably used to working wi...
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Welcome to a brand new series of articles and videos revolving around Ruby on Rails.
This new series is dedicated to those interested in learning [Ruby o...
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Building a blog with comments using Ruby on Rails is a foundational exercise I went through to learn more about the framework. Working together, both Ruby an...
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Welcome to our next Let's Build! This build introduces a well known social media giant Twitter into the mix as inspiration for the project. We will be creati...
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Welcome to a five-part mini-series where I teach you how to build a Dribbble clone in Ruby on Rails. This series is our most thorough build yet!
[Dribbble...
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Continuing my long stent of Ruby on Rails builds is yet another build that focuses more on relationships in a real-world discussion forum application.
The...
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Deploying a Rails app can be a daunting experience. There are a vast number of hosts out there but many fail to compare to Heroku. In this single part screen...
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Welcome to the next installment of my Let's Build series featuring Ruby on Rails. In this span of six videos, I'll walk you through the concept of building a...
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Welcome to what I'll be calling my tenth installment to my Let's Build: With Ruby on Rails series. In this build, I'll cover how to build a filterable job bo...
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Welcome to my eleventh Let's Build series featuring Ruby on Rails. This installment, once again, focuses on accepting payments using Ruby on Rails as a w...
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I'm beyond excited to announce my new project Affinicasts (RIP!)!
In the last 9 months, I've been a little obsessed with creating my newest side project c...
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Welcome to my latest Let's Build: With Ruby on Rails series. This build will dive a little deeper into relationships within a Ruby on Rails application and...
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Welcome to my 13th Let's Build: With Ruby on Rails. This build will feature a multitenancy workout app that uses a popular gem called Apartment, nested attri...
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As my experience with Ruby on Rails continues to grow I explore more and more by hitting the ground running with a base application template for new projects...
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Ruby on Rails is such a vast framework. The Ruby on Rails CLI makes working with the framework that much easier. This video/article is the result of my own t...
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Ruby on Rails gives us so much out of the box but there are times errors occur or we need to re-invent the wheel for a specific feature of some type. This vi...
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Did you know Ruby on Rails can be used as a strict API based backend application? What's the benefit to this? Think of it as a single source of truth for mul...
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Data is a great thing but the wrong data can be very very bad. Luckily, if you're a Ruby on Rails programmer you have a nice API of ActiveRecord validation h...
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Active Record migrations (within Ruby on Rails) are a convenient way to alter your database schema of a period of time. This overview/guide is a look at just...
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I'm beyond excited to share the news that I am making a Ruby on Rails course called Hello Rails!
The course has a [dedicated lan...
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Webpack, although a little hard to configure, remains the leading edge build tool for modern web development. This post/video guides you through adding Webpa...
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In Ruby on Rails, associating models is quite trivial but does come with some conventions you will need to be familiar with as you build progressive web apps...
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I've been busy getting my new course hellorails.io in better shape to launch this week. While doing that it was recently announced t...
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Ruby on Rails is such a powerful framework. It has its own CLI of which harnesses what are known as "generators". These generators can quickly scale up resou...
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Hey all, enjoy this free (short) taste of a bonus module in my upcoming course Hello Rails. You can find a ton more about the course at [hellorails.io](http:...
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My new course Hello Rails is officially live! In case you weren't on my mailing list I wanted to broadcast to you all that my course is out. I'm beyond excit...
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Devise is a ruby gem I use in nearly any Rails app. Authentication is a not so simple concept to master and as a result Devise has stood to be one of the mos...
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Continuing my Let's Build with Ruby on Rails - Extending Devise series I take a look at adding confirmation emails to a given Ruby on Rails application.
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Continuing my Let's Build with Ruby on Rails - Extending Devise series I take a look at Devise custom routing options within a Ruby on Rails application harn...
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The Spree commerce framework is an open-source fully-featured e-commerce solution that integrates directly with the Ruby on Rai...
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Welcome to another installment of my Let's Build with Ruby on Rails - Extending Devise series within a series. This post will teach you how to allow a user t...
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The Devise gem ships with a default configuration that allows you to sign in on a specific route. This post addres...
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Welcome to another installment in my Let's build with Ruby on Rails: Extending Devise series. This tutorial teaches you how to sign in with Twitter using Dev...
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GraphQL is a query language for APIs. The query language itself is universal and not tied to any frontend or backend technology. This...
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Continuing on from Part 1 is the frontend portion of the tutorial. I'll leverage React, Apollo and Tailwind CSS to build out the frontend of our Ruby on Rail...
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The High Voltage gem is one of my favorite no-nonsense Ruby gems that gets you moving quickly when the need for...
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It has been a bit since I last vlogged. As 2019 came to a close I saw it as a great time to take a look back at 2019 in vlog format.
In this video, I tak...
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Welcome to another installment of my Let's Build: With Ruby on Rails series. This series focuses on building a marketplace application using Stripe Connect. ...
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I was recently asked to give an overview of how to add markdown support to a Ruby on Rails application. This guide will leverage a gem called [Redcarpet](htt...
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Everywhere I've looked for some guidance on how to best tailor email subscriptions in a Ruby on Rails app has turned up fairly empty. After some trial and er...
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Callbacks are methods that get called at certain moments of an object's life cycle. We can use callbacks as a means to manipulate objects further with built-...
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Welcome back to the second part of my series I'm calling "Let's build for Ruby and Rails developers".
This series is...
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Ruby on Rails ships with default error pages for more popular requests you might encounter including 404
, 500
, and 422
. Each request has an associated ...
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Ruby on Rails and its routing capabilities make creating new resources and URL structures a breeze. This guide is a walk-through of some use cases for routin...
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I have fat fingers when it comes to programming some days. I’ll often make a typo when generating a new model or a controller and fudge up a process that cre...
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Migrating database changes is relatively straightforward using Ruby on Rails. You may have gotten ahead in the local development environment and need to modi...
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A Comprehensive Guide to Essential String Helper Methods
When optimizing your Ruby on Rails development process, leveraging string helper methods can si...
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