GoRails Screencasts

Configuring servers can be tricky, but it's much easier using drop-in configs so you're not editing files that could change across versions or environments.

The Whenever gem is fantastic for defining cron jobs. With a little customization, we can have it monitor cron jobs and report logs, and status to services like AppSignal.

Learn how to order records by a column with a set of values

Learn how to use Rails' with_options to DRY up duplicated options across method calls and associations, including how to nest them for shared defaults.

Learn how to normalize all ActiveRecord attributes with a quick peak at the Rails source code.

Learn how to dynamically render Rails partials using standard Rails behavior and model_name.plural when needed to clean up messy if/else conditionals in your views.

Optional attributes are empty strings by default, but we can clean these up as nil in Rails using normalizes

Learn how to use validation contexts in Rails to conditionally validate models - like saving drafts without validation but requiring them when publishing.

A peek into the Domain Monitor SaaS product that we'll be building in this series with Rails, Stripe, Solid Queue, and Kamal.

Rails 8.1 introduces a new Markdown MIME Type and renderer to better integrate your apps with AI and other tools that use Markdown