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 will upload a CSV file but need to pass it into a background job. This can prove to be difficult based on the hosting infrastructure so we'll explore some mechanisms to work around them. We'll also look to optimize Solid Queue to handle the large number of jobs.By Dave Kimura
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In this episode, we look at setting up a mechanism to track the changes from an externally developed product. We'll also discuss branching strategies and how to develop your own features on top of Writebook.By Dave Kimura
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In this episode, we tackle the issue of slow-loading dropdowns with a high volume of options by implementing an asynchronous select using the Hotwire Combobox library.By Dave Kimura
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In this episode, we look at various tricks in Ruby on Rails as well as some other neat tricks.By Dave Kimura
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In this episode, we'll look at setting up a fresh Windows 11 environment for Ruby on Rails development. We'll be looking at a few different tricks that makes managing a Windows environment much easier.By Dave Kimura
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Ever wonder how you could add audio to interactions on a website. In this episode, we'll explore adding sounds whenever someone clicks on a link or button.By Dave Kimura
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In this episode, we look at running a self hosted Large Language Model (LLM) and consuming it with a Rails application. We will use a background to make API requests to the LLM and then stream the responses in real-time to the browser.By Dave Kimura
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Django 5: The Jury's Out and the Verdict is Async
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Casey, 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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In this episode, we look at some of the design patterns that are used in Campfire and my take on why they took this approach. We'll explore some of the code organization, search functionality, and more!By Dave Kimura
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In this episode, we explore the Campfire code from 37signals' Once product line. We'll install the product and grab the code base to get it up and running on our development environment.By Dave Kimura
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With Turbo 8 comes a lot of new features and in this episode, we'll explore an upgrading a blog post with comments to add in the new functionality.By Dave Kimura
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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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The 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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Suborbital’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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