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Christian, Husband, Father and Rubyist, Screencaster of https://www.driftingruby.com, Creator of ActionAuth https://github.com/kobaltz/action_auth, Makes and loves 🍣
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Episode #535 - Kamal Registry

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code #deployment #kamal

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Episode 535 - Kamal Registry | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we'll look at the two of my favorite changes in the recent Kamal releases. We'll explore some of the flows that the new registry uses and some things to be aware of.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Episode #533 - Active Job Continuations

#ruby #rubyonrails #8.1 #kamal #programming #code

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Episode 533 - Active Job Continuations | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we'll explore a new Rails 8.1 feature that allows background jobs to "pick up where they left off." We'll look at how the new Continuations feature helps prevent long-running jobs fro...
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October 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Episode #532 - Pull to Refresh (on a PWA)

#ruby #rubyonrails #pwa #programming #code #stimulusjs #javascript

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Episode 532 - Pull to Refresh | Drifting Ruby
When PWA websites are installed (specifically on iOS) there is some functionality lost to refresh the page. In this episode, we explore in how to restore this functionality.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Episode #531 - Kamal Logs Upload

#ruby #rubyonrails #kamal #hooks #programming #code

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Episode 531 - Kamal Logs Upload | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we look at shipping application logs via the Kamal Hooks to a webhook endpoint. We'll use Discord as the final log storage.
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October 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Episode #530 - Omarchy

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code #omarchy

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Episode 530 - Omarchy | Drifting Ruby
Omarchy is an omakase distribution based on Arch Linux and the tiling window manager Hyprland. It ships with just about everything a modern software developer needs to be productive immediately.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Episode #529 - External Databases

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code

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Episode 529 - External Databases | Drifting Ruby
Sometimes, we're building an integration to a third party product that doesn't expose any APIs, but we do have access to the database itself. In this episode, we'll look at connecting to external data...
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September 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Episode #528 Retrieval-Augmented Generation

#ruby #rubyonrails #ai #machinelearning #rag #programming #code

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Episode 528 - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we continue off of Episode #499 and implement a feature where we can search and consume sections of text for text generation. This has many benefits and some nuances that we'll explor...
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September 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Episode #527 - Lexxy

#ruby #rubyonrails #lexxy #actiontext #programming #javascript #code

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Episode 527 - Lexxy | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we look at moving from Trix to Lexxy in our Rails application using ActionText. The transition isn't completely seamless, but overall works very well.
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September 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Episode #526 - RubyMine

#ruby #rubyonrails #rubymine #jetbrains #programming #code

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Episode 526 - RubyMine | Drifting Ruby
I haven't used RubyMine in several years, but a recent announcement from JetBrains have now opened up access for free with non-commercial products. In this episode, I'm taking a fresh look at RubyMine...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Episode #525 - Extracting Logic into a Gem

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code

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Episode 525 - Extracting Logic into a Gem | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we look at some of the hurdles when extracting business logic out of an application into a gem.
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August 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Episode #524 - LLM Usage

#ruby #rubyonrails #ollama #machinelearning #programming #code

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Episode 524 - LLM Usage | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we track our prompt and completion tokens that are called from our application. This is a small feature, but can raise important insights to the usage of LLMs in our application as we...
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August 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Episode #523 - Multitenant Conversion

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code

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Episode 523 - Multitenant Conversion | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we will look at taking an existing application and set it up for multitenancy. This kind of functionality is often thought of during the initial development, but can later become a re...
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August 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Episode #522 - Tailwind Plus

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code #tailwind

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Episode 522 - Tailwind Plus | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we look at Tailwind Plus and how to integrate it into our Rails application. We will explore some of the necessary setup and what Tailwind Plus is not.
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August 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Episode #521 - Model Context Protocol

#ruby #rubyonrails #machinelearning #programming #code

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Episode 521 - Model Context Protocol | Drifting Ruby
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an API interface for your applications that are formatted in a way that machine learning platforms can interact with them. They can be used to generate AI insights, per...
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August 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Episode #520 - Worker Limits

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code #background #jobs #solidqueue

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Episode 520 - Worker Limits | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we look at situations when an external API does not have a normal rate limit, but instead has concurrency limits. This can also apply to situations where you have limited resources on...
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July 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Episode #518 - Password Managers

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code #kamal #secrets

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Episode 518 - Password Managers | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we're going to look at using password managers (1Password and Bitwarden) to pass secrets into Kamal for deploying our applications.
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July 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Episode #517 - Dependent Select

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code #javascript #stimulusjs

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Episode 517 - Dependent Select | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we look at using a Select javascript library and combined with StimulusJS to create dependent select fields.
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July 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Episode #516 - Database Replica

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code #database

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Episode 516 - Database Replica | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we'll look at database connection switching within a Rails application to switch between a primary and replica database. This has many benefits on applications which many many read an...
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June 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Episode #515 - Log Bench

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code #development

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Episode 515 - Log Bench | Drifting Ruby
Tailing logs can be rather annoying in a development environment when looking for a specific request. In this episode, we're going to explore the Log Bench gem and the value it adds to our development...
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June 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Episode #514 - System Tests in Docker

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code #docker #systemtests

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Episode 514 - System Tests in Docker | Drifting Ruby
Setting up system tests to run heedlessly in a docker container can be rather difficult. In this episode, we'll dockerize a Rails application and set up the application to run the system tests in the ...
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June 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Episode #513 - Kamal 2 in Github Actions

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code #kamal #deployment

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Episode 513 - Kamal 2 in Github Actions | Drifting Ruby
In this episode we take a look at Github Actions again, but with Kamal 2. Not too much has changed, but there are some differences in the approach on caching and a few other things that have changed s...
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June 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Episode #512 - Marksmith

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code #wysiwyg #markdown

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Episode 512 - Marksmith | Drifting Ruby
Easily add Markdown support to your Rails applications with Marksmith. This isn't a drop-in replacement to ActionText, but can be used with text or blob columns. Marksmith integrates easily with Activ...
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June 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Episode #511 - Printing

#ruby #rubyonrails #css #programming

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Episode 511 - Printing | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we look at styling and implementing a print functionality to hide away content on our page that doesn't need to be printed. While small, this feature can make a big difference in how ...
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May 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Episode #510 - Kamal Maintenance Mode

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code #kamal #deployment

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Episode 510 - Kamal Maintenance Mode | Drifting Ruby
In Kamal 2.6.0, a new feature was released that allowed an app to switch between live mode and maintenance mode. In this episode, we'll explore the new feature and how it works.
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May 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Episode #508 - Scaffold Templates

#ruby #rubyonrails #programming #code

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Episode 508 - Scaffold Templates | Drifting Ruby
In this episode, we explore using the scaffold generator and modifying the templates to simplify the creation of consistent, Tailwind CSS-styled views and controllers in a Rails application, saving ti...
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May 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM