Getting the Lay of the Land in an Unfamiliar Project
You’ve just git-cloned a project you’ve never worked on before. How do you get oriented and situated? In this unrehearsed video, I talk about some…
Devcontainer Portmapping
A web app devcontainer isn't much good if you can't see the app. Let's talk about loopback addresses, interface binding, and port-mapping with docker-…
Caching Files in a Devcontainer
In a devcontainer, system files are ephemeral and subject to being reset any time the container is rebuilt. This can can be a problem for development …
Rake Global Tasks
Rake isn't just for running tests. You can use Rake to organize all your favorite development automation tasks across ALL your projects. Find out how,…
Robust Ruby
Get expert guidance on logging, failure management, and performance optimization in Ruby
lsof; or: what process is using my port?!
Have you ever gone to start a local development server, only to have it complain that the port is already taken? In this episode you'll learn about ho…
Eliminating RSpec Boilderplate with Claudio Baccigalupo
Join guest chef Claudio Baccigalupo and learn how to eliminate some common boilerplate code in RSpec Rails system specs.
StimulusJS
JS framworks are great for richly interactive client-side applications. But what if we just want to take a typical Rails app and spruce it up with a l…
Polymorphic Attributes in Rails – Part 2
Previously, guest chef Corey Haines joined us to talk about representing complex structured data with custom attribute types in Rails. Today, he retur…
Polymorphic Attributes in Rails – Part 1
Sometimes model attributes need to have more structure than a simple string or number. In part 1 of a 2-part series on ActiveRecord polymorphic attrib…