Introduction to Hotwire – Ruby On Rails
Another one for Ruby on Rails developers! Hotwire is a ‘better’, simpler way to get dynamically updated content onto your web pages and create a more consistent experience. BUT the real positive, for us Rails developers, is that you can do this using essentially the same CRUD actions and partials that we already have in…
Deploying Rails 6.1 to Production
Nerd Alert! In this video I discuss how to actually deploy your Ruby on Rails application so that the rest of the world can see it!
Continuous Integration for Rails with Travis & GitHub
In this video, I take the Contractometer project from earlier lessons and integrate it with Travis for Continuous Integration (i.e. auto-building and testing). Travis: https://travis-ci.com What is continuous integration anyway? Essentially, you check your code into a central repository (i.e. Github) and automated building is done to see if your code can run, and tests…
First Look: DB Sharding in Rails 6.1
Rails 6.1 was released as a stable build not so long ago. One of the features I was interested in is the support for sharding. In this video I take my first look at it. It’s a super exciting feature – if it works right!
Stimulus, Hotwire, Bootstrap 5, Rails 6 – and a viewer question!
In this episode I tackle (kind of) a question put forward by a viewer on another video – handling the showing of duration in Rails. To do that I create a new Rails6 app and plug in Stimulus.js, Hotwire/Turbo and Bootstrap5. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction – Explanation 02:33 Environment 03:15 Create Rails app 04:04 Install Hotwire/Turbo…
Rails 5 Gem to Rails 6 Engine
With Zonmaster (https://public.zonmaster.com) we are/were stuck on Rails 5 because the tenanting gem we use (Milia) isn’t Rails 6 compatible. Let’s fix that! Sorry for the rambling, I don’t have a lot of time to structure the videos so I just start and go! I’m working on a new project that hopefully some day I…
7 Habits of Successful Internet Entrepreneurs
Straight talk from an Experienced Tech Entrepreneur. There’s certain habits that will accelerate and elevate the chances of you being a successful internet entrepreneur. In this video I cover the lessons I’ve learned through my startup career over 20 years as a successful tech entrepreneur.
Why Ruby on Rails in 2021?
It’s 2021, so why am I still using Ruby on Rails to develop new services? Find out inside. HINT: It doesn’t matter!!!
Lifestyles, Not Unicorns
Everybody talks about these rare beasts in the startup world – the Unicorns. I’m here to tell you there is another, safer, better way. People get into Entrepreneurship for lots of different reasons. For me it was always about Lifestyle – and not the kind of ridiculous Instagram Lifestyle of being in your 20s (haha…
Datatables & Rails – Basic to Advanced – Ruby on Rails Tutorial
A monster of a video here! I cover using Datatables in a Ruby on Rails 5 app. Going from creating the app all the way up to some sophisticated styling. 00:00 Introduction 02:00 Create Rails app with Dummy Data 11:48 Add Bootstrap 15:10 Add Datatables 20:00 Make it better 33:05 Add Select Box 42:40 Next…