GoRails Screencasts

In this episode, we will extend Trix by adding a text highlighting feature.

A lot of developers use link_to and button_to interchangeably. In this lesson, we'll explore when you should use link_to and when to use button_to and the differences between them.

Processing inbound webhooks can be tricky. In this lesson, you'll learn how receive, verify, and process webhooks in an efficient and well-organized manner.

Blog posts often need cover images for social sharing. In this lesson, we'll add cover image file uploads with ActiveStorage.

Pagination is something we don't need until we publish a lot of blog posts. We can use the pagy gem to add page links to the bottom of our pages and handle thousands of blog posts.

Over time, you'll need to upgrade the Ruby version of your Rails application. For example, a new version of Ruby was released since we started this series that fixes a couple security issues in Ruby so we'll teach you how to upgrade your Ruby version.

Rails uses the MVC Pattern. This isn't as scary as it sounds. It's basically a design architecture that gives you 3 primary buckets to help you organize your code.

ActionText builds on top of the ActiveStorage file uploads feature in Rails, so we're going to configure Amazon S3 storage so we can upload files in production

ActionText is a feature of Rails that allows you to add rich text including file uploads to any of your models. This is a perfect fit for our Blog Posts, so we're going to replace the text column with a rich text field with ActionText.

Scopes are a way for us to change the way a database table is queried. For example, we can use them to change the ordering of the results so certain records are first.