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Regarding CSS’s Global Scope
With the exception of some form elements, you’ve just set a font on every bit of text on a site! Nice! That’s probably what you were trying to do, because of the probably hundreds of elements all over your site, setting that font-family every time would be tedious and error-prone.CSS is global by nature. On purpose!I like how David Khourshid put it:You ever stop and think about why CSS has a
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Policy Manager with GDPR Rails
Using the gdpr_rails gem, we look at adding a policy manager to require users to accept age, terms, and privacy policies before signing up for an account.
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Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) with Rails
Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) allows your website to talk to other websites.
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Templating Ruby on Rails Applications
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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Using Vuex with Forms in Rails
Embeddable Javascript Widgets often contain forms. We're using Vuex to build our comment form widget and we're going to use vue-map-fields to make this easier.
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Creating a Simple Slack Bot
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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Using Vuex with a Rails Backend
The next step in our embeddable javascript widget series is setting up our Vue frontend to talk with our Rails backend using Vuex
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Refactoring Models
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.
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User Avatars with ActiveStorage
Adding user avatars is pretty easy using Rails' ActiveStorage feature. We'll be using Devise in this example, but this applies to any user authentication system.
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Development Decisions and Architecture
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.
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Embeddable Javascript Comments Widget Models - Part 1
Starting our Embeddable JS Widget series outlining the comment and discussion models and the basic webpacker setup
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Activity Feed with Public Activity
Add an activity feed to your application with Public Activity.
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Link To Current Page With Params
Learn how to link to the current page and add, remove, or modify params in the URL. This is handy for things like search or index pages with filters.
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Grab Bag of Ruby and Ruby on Rails Tricks
In this episode, we look at various tips and tricks.
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Search Filters with ElasticSearch Aggregations
Learn how to add sidebar search filters like Amazon.com using ElasticSearch's aggregations in Searchkick
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Nested Comments from Scratch
Using polymorphic associations, we can have comments assigned to a post as well as comments assigned to other comments.
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How to Build a Slack Slash Command App with Rails
Learn how to implement a Slack Slash Command App in Rails using webhooks
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Friend Requests Views, Controllers, and Model Methods
Part II - In this episode, we create performant links for adding, accepting/rejecting and removing friends for our social media application.
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Handling First & Last Name with the name_of_person gem
Deciding whether or not to have separate first and last name fields gets a bit confusing. Basecamp's recently released name_of_person gem shows you exactly how to handle this reliably and also stands as a fantastic example of how to build a concern
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Friend Requests From Scratch
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.
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Reddit style comment thread pagination
Adding pagination to our nested comment threads is easier than you might think, plus we'll take a look at a couple different approaches we can use
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Service Objects for API Interactions with Twilio
In this episode, learn how to extract the interactions with an external API into a service object so that code is isolated and interchangeable.
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Deleting Comments In Nested Threads
Nested comment threads pose a lot of unique challenges. One of these is deleting comments because you can easily lose the child comments or context. We'll take a look at a couple great ways of handling this.
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Bundler and Binstubs
In this episode, we look at some lesser known bundler commands including binstubs.
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Nested Comment Threads in Rails - Part 3
Using AJAX, we can submit our comments and have them render onto the page without a page refresh.
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