Drifting Ruby Screencasts

GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. In this episode, learn to set up GitHub Actions on your Ruby on Rails application with automated tests, code coverage reporting, and security testings.

First look at the upcoming Apple Silicon processor and what it will be like for us Ruby Developers. Honestly, I wish that it was a better experience. However, with macOS Big Sur being beta and the DTK not being the final consumer hardware, there's still hope yet.

Soft deletes for ActiveRecord done right.

Without using any gems, we look at tracking changes within Action Text. It seems like a simple thing, but challenges arise through several layers of abstraction due to the flexibility that Action Text provides.

So, you've been using a gem for some time and you've either discovered that the gem isn't working correctly or that you want to start contributing to the gem itself. Sometimes this can be an overwhelming task. In this episode, we look at the basic processes for contributing to a gem.

Add unobtrusive maps to your application using StimulusJS to tie in Google Maps Javascript API and Places API.

Set up Action Text with client side Syntax Highlighting using Highlight.js.

In this episode, we look at attaching emojis to our comments model, allowing them to fill in some emotional cues.

In this episode we create a Like/Unlike system where users can like posts and use Global ID to obfuscate IDs.

jQuery has been a great tool for many years, but we've seen a transition in the past years where applications have dropped jQuery and moved to vanilla javascript. In this episode, we look at some common jQuery examples and the ES6 equivalencies.