In part one of this episode on leveraging ActiveSupport::Duration, we look at how to provide a solution to calculating and updating model attributes that represent lengths of time. We look at ActiveSupport::Duration and how we can write a custom coder cla

Rails ships with support for using Memcached as the cache storage. Memcached is an open source, key value store that is designed primarily for caching. Out of the box it is configured to automatically expire old cache keys and can easily be scaled up with

In this episode, we will look at an option for beginning to refactor your code architecture to use modules as a first step to potentially extracting a new class.

In this episode, we look at how to get started making utility programs with Ruby similar to the built in cat and grep programs.

Debugging Ruby with the Caller method

In this video, we will look at how to integrate with Alexa to build a skill with Rails

In this follow-up episode on building your first Ruby gem, we look at setting up version control, adding a basic testing setup, and adding a basic GitHub action for a CI (continuous integration) setup. With these pieces in place, we should have a solid fo

In this episode, we will create our first Ruby Gem. It will be a very simplified gem that adds a method to the built-in Ruby Array class. The goal is to understand the core pieces of what is needed to create a gem that we can share with the community.

In this episode, we look at how to make a Railsbyte template. Specifically, we will be making a Railsbyte that will set up our application for deployment with Render which will allow us to be able to reuse the template on any application that we would lik

Deploying your Ruby on Rails applications to Render is only a few file modifications away. Learn how to deploy your Ruby on Rails applications using Render in this episode.