Styling with Bootstrap Sass

Jul 07, 2014

Learn how CSS and Javascript frameworks should be added to Rails applications

20

5m

Debugging With BetterErrors

Jul 07, 2014

A look at how to supercharge your debugging and solve errors faster than ever

17

22m

Pretty urls with FriendlyID

Jul 07, 2014

Techniques for taking your database models and using attributes to generate pretty urls

26

9m

Pagination with will_paginate

Jul 07, 2014

A look into how pagination works from scratch and how to use will_paginate

13

23m

File Uploading with Carrierwave

Jul 07, 2014

Using Rails to upload files manually and how you can do it even cleaner using Carrierwave

25

19m

User Authentication with Devise

Jul 07, 2014

A look into user accounts, registration, login, forgot your password, and more

3

6m

Keeping track with Annotate

Jul 07, 2014

Learn how to keep track of your database models and attributes with comments in your application

10

32m

Sending emails with Mandrill

Jul 07, 2014

Advanced techniques on sending emails over SMTP with local views and Mandrill's API with remote templates

50

23m

Authorization With CanCanCan

Aug 18, 2014 Pro

A look into the popular CanCanCan library to add authorization to your Rails app

24

20m

Authorization with Pundit

Sep 01, 2014 Pro

A guide to authorization with Pundit including a walkthrough of how to lock down your application, actions, and use default policies

29

16m

Soft Delete with Paranoia

Feb 05, 2015

Learn how to soft delete records instead of deleting them permanently from your database

19

18m

Newsletter Sign Up Form with country_select

Apr 04, 2015

How to plan and build a newsletter sign up form

18

26m

The State_Machine Gem

Aug 20, 2015

Learn how to use the state_machine gem to keep track of objects in your Rails apps

10

17m

Using ActiveAdmin to Build an Admin UI

Dec 28, 2016

Learn how to build a dedicated admin area in your Rails app for editing records by admins using the ActiveAdmin gem

23

27m

How to Migrate from Paperclip to Rails ActiveStorage

May 08, 2018

Now that the Paperclip gem has been deprecated, it's recommended that you migrate your apps to ActiveStorage

15

25m

Components with Phlex in Rails

Adam McCrea walks through using Phlex to build components for views in your Rails applications. Phlex is a Ruby gem for building fast object-oriented HTML and SVG components using Ruby constructs: methods, keyword arguments and blocks.

10

21m

Scheduled Cron Jobs with the Whenever Gem

Sep 01, 2015 Pro

Learn how to run scheduled (nightly, weekly, monthly) jobs using cron on your server with the Whenever gem

6

22m

Admin Interfaces with Administrate

Nov 19, 2015

The new admin gem from Thoughtbot shows some promise for easy to customize admin interfaces in your Rails app

26

34m

Inviting Users with devise_invitable

May 23, 2016 Pro

Learn how to invite users to your application with devise_invitable

47

19m

Sentiment Analysis with the Sentimental Gem

May 05, 2016

Learn how to use sentimental analysis against text inside your application and cache it so you can query against it later

4

17m

Custom will_paginate Methods

Jun 02, 2016 Pro

We take the Leaderboard gem and wire it up with custom code to work seamlessly with will_paginate

5

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Styling with Bootstrap Sass

Jul 07, 2014

Debugging With BetterErrors

Jul 07, 2014

Pretty urls with FriendlyID

Jul 07, 2014

Pagination with will_paginate

Jul 07, 2014

File Uploading with Carrierwave

Jul 07, 2014

User Authentication with Devise

Jul 07, 2014

Keeping track with Annotate

Jul 07, 2014

Sending emails with Mandrill

Jul 07, 2014

Authorization With CanCanCan

Aug 18, 2014 Pro

Authorization with Pundit

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Soft Delete with Paranoia

Feb 05, 2015

Newsletter Sign Up Form with country_select

Apr 04, 2015

The State_Machine Gem

Aug 20, 2015

Using ActiveAdmin to Build an Admin UI

Dec 28, 2016

How to Migrate from Paperclip to Rails ActiveStorage

May 08, 2018

Components with Phlex in Rails

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Scheduled Cron Jobs with the Whenever Gem

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Admin Interfaces with Administrate

Nov 19, 2015

Inviting Users with devise_invitable

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Sentiment Analysis with the Sentimental Gem

May 05, 2016

Custom will_paginate Methods

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