Drifting Ruby Screencasts

Drifting Ruby Screencasts

Dave Kimura

Episodes 10
Avg. Duration 15m
Activity Highly Active
Since Jul 2025
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Monthly
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90%
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www.driftingruby.com

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About This Podcast

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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Recent Episodes

N+1 Driven Development

Apr 01, 2026 6m

In this episode, we look at how we can modify our application from a performance aspect to increase our job security. We'll slow down our application to a still usable level, but then swoop in months…

Optimizations

Mar 01, 2026 19m

In this episode, we look at a few different ways of improving the speed of a page. There are many paths to take. Some of them leaves a lot of optimizations on the table, whereas others are premature…

Claude Code

Feb 01, 2026 23m

In this episode, we look at how to use Claude Code to assist us in developing Rails applications. This is not about vibe coding, but using tools to assist our development efforts.

Self Hosted App

Jan 04, 2026 14m

In this episode, we'll go from a fresh Rails 8 application and a newly provisioned Raspberry Pi to deploying the application on the PI. We'll also set up a domain to point to this application and put…

Cool Things in Fizzy

Dec 07, 2025 20m

In this episode, we look deploying Fizzy to a server and look at some of the notable practices found in the code.

Failover Requests

Nov 02, 2025 11m

In this episode, we look at creating a failover mechanism for API requests. This can be a handy trick in situations where you want to add fault tolerance to an API request. We'll use the example of…

Omarchy

Oct 05, 2025 11m

Omarchy is an omakase distribution based on Arch Linux and the tiling window manager Hyprland. It ships with just about everything a modern software developer needs to be productive immediately.

RubyMine

Sep 07, 2025 18m

I haven't used RubyMine in several years, but a recent announcement from JetBrains have now opened up access for free with non-commercial products. In this episode, I'm taking a fresh look at…

Model Context Protocol

Aug 03, 2025 12m

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an API interface for your applications that are formatted in a way that machine learning platforms can interact with them. They can be used to generate AI insights,…

Dependent Select

Jul 06, 2025 15m

In this episode, we explore how to enhance standard select fields using a JavaScript library together with StimulusJS to create more dynamic and responsive dropdowns. The focus is on adding search…

Marksmith

Jun 01, 2025 7m

Easily add Markdown support to your Rails applications with Marksmith. This isn't a drop-in replacement to ActionText, but can be used with text or blob columns. Marksmith integrates easily with…

Scaffold Templates

May 04, 2025 13m

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…

Boolean vs Datetime

Apr 06, 2025 13m

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…

Vibe Coding

Apr 01, 2025 17m

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…

Frequently Asked Questions

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Drifting Ruby Screencasts has published 10 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in Education, Technology.

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Drifting Ruby Screencasts is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 15m.

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