Every week you will be treated to a new Drifting Ruby episode featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails, the popular web development framework. These screencasts are short and focus on one technique so you can quickly move on to applying it to your own project. The topics are geared toward the intermediate Rails developer, but beginners and experts will get something out of it as well.
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Episodes and show notes available at friday.hirelofty.com. An unapologetic show about the culture and chaos of software engineering from the makers and breakers of digital products at Lofty Labs. We build software with Python and Django, Ruby and Rails, Golang, whatever frontend framework we're forced to use because it's popular this month, and anything else to get the job done right. Then on Friday afternoons we have a beer and talk about our regrets on this show.
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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 time when prototyping and building new features.By Dave Kimura
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In this episode, we look at refactoring an existing application where it uses a boolean to determine if a post is published or unpublished. However, this feature has its limitations, so we change the functionality to work off of a datetime column instead.By Dave Kimura
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Time to stop hiring $100k/year developers and hire an intern for $10k/year and pay $100/year for an AI Agent. The intern doesn't even need to understand the code it is generating and just help guide it to the solution. Sadly, this has to be said because people do not watch the content. This is satire.…
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In this episode we look at processing background jobs in a way that can conditionally send the work to be processed to different queues. This can be very powerful in situations where you need to process the job in different ways or send requests to different APIs.By Dave Kimura
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In this episode, we'll explore how we can add a "global" music player that will persist across different pages. Our approach will be unobtrusive and implemented in a maintainable way.By Dave Kimura
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In this episode, we look at implementing a temporary loader for turbo frame tags to give a visual of data that is loading.By Dave Kimura
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In this episode, we look at some precautions we can take with our production environment and setup recurring backups for the database.By Dave Kimura
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In this episode, we look at creating an entire infrastructure (proxy, load balancer, app servers, worker servers, database server, and a storage server) on our own hardware use Kamal to provision and deploy our Ruby on Rails application.By Dave Kimura
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In this episode we look at deploying a Rails 8 beta application to a Digital Ocean droplet. We'll also look at a scenario of deploying Action Cable broadcasts and another with recurring background jobs.By Dave Kimura
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Large forms can be overwhelming to fill out, especially if not all of the fields are required. In this episode, we'll look at creating a stimulus controller to conditionally display fields based on the input of another field.By Dave Kimura
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Django 5: The Jury's Out and the Verdict is Async
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1:16:12Casey, Alan, & Joseph go through, some highlights of the Django 5.0 release notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/releases/5.0/
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Alan & Joseph catch up with Tyrel, getting nihilistic about software development and all things technology...with maybe a shred of hope somewhere out there. © 2023By Lofty Labs
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Casey, Alan, & Joseph try to discuss what podcasts we're listening to and devices on the edge, but we ended up with a couple of great podcast names instead.By Lofty Labs
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Casey and Joseph talk about data management: unlocking data science potential by understanding the problems, strategic planning, and implementing well-defined efficient programming standards and operations, while only taking a few shots at tech behemoths and JS...By Lofty Labs
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Joseph asks the engineers AI generated software engineering questions; our chaotic mess ensues...By Lofty Labs
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Product and Engineering remain civil, but honest as we discuss the excuses we use when things heat up.By Lofty Labs
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It's another imaginative episode of "Friday Afternoon Deploy". Join Alan, Evan, Joseph, Andrew, and Audrey (the newest inductee) as they authoritatively discuss comfy chairs, table-top gaming, probability, life as an introvert, and touch on few software development opinions like observability, telemetry, and SLAs. It's definitely unconventional, po…
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Old faithful FAD pod attendee Alan is joined by Joseph, Evan, and Cody to discuss Apple's Vision Quest, mixed/augmented/virtual reality, and 1990s movie choice for a special Friday Afternoon Deploy...at midnight. ENJOY!By Lofty Labs
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Some of the Lofty Northwest Arkansas locals joined for a podcast episode crammed full of their favorite...or at least most recently watch YouTube resources.By Lofty Labs
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Tired of hearing about AI? We've got some stories, and more than a few opinions...By Lofty Labs
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New Year resolutions from the FAD crew? (Almost) none at all - but not for the reasons you may think.By Lofty Labs
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Casey & the team close out the year with honest commentary about coding, Slack, and company communications.By Lofty Labs
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The FAD crew gather ‘round to discuss why smoking turkey is superior to frying. Plus some Python.By Lofty Labs
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Tyrell makes a quick return to the podcast as the team muses on games, pop culture, and software development.By Lofty Labs
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Casey, Alan and Cody catch their breath after the latest round of sales conferences to chat about coding. Plus hiring!By Lofty Labs
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Stories of hot brass, cold spiders, and Basecamp woes get tossed around with the FAD crew. Send in your arachnid tale, if you dare.By Lofty Labs
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Alan and Casey muse on streaming content, figuring out Lofty’s identity, and the FAD Patreon.By Lofty Labs
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We haven't had time to podcast and its all Big Chris' fault
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46:13The FAD team (finally) get together to talk about being profitable, Big Chris’s car problems, and Lofty’s growing pains.By Lofty Labs
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Casey, Chris & Alan talk about Web 3.0, cryptocurrency, and why they’re skeptical about what the future claims to be.By Lofty Labs
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WebAssembly Everything with Oscar Spencer
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1:01:09Suborbital’s Director of Engineering Oscar makes a long-awaited return to FAD with real, undiluted excitement for Grain & WASM’s future.By Lofty Labs
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