Podcast
Drifting Ruby Screencasts
Hosted by Dave Kimura · EN
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
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Easter Eggs
Apr 500:03:22Tap to summarizeEaster Eggs are often ways that developers can have fun by hiding little gems in the code base or provide additional fun without affecting the function of the application. In this episode, we'll explore some of the little easter eggs in the Rails code base.
Transcribe →N+1 Driven Development
Apr 100:06:54Tap to summarizeIn 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 later and become the hero.
Transcribe →Optimizations
Mar 100:19:05Tap to summarizeIn 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 and adds complexity.
Transcribe →Claude Code
Feb 100:23:50Tap to summarizeIn 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.
Transcribe →Self Hosted App
Jan 400:14:21Tap to summarizeIn 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 in place geo restrictions to help prevent unwanted access.
Transcribe →Cool Things in Fizzy
Dec 700:20:23Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we look deploying Fizzy to a server and look at some of the notable practices found in the code.
Transcribe →Failover Requests
Nov 200:11:06Tap to summarizeIn 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 the Ollama Cloud as a failover to a locally hosted instance of Ollama.
Transcribe →Omarchy
Oct 500:11:34Tap to summarizeOmarchy 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.
Transcribe →RubyMine
Sep 700:18:36Tap to summarizeI 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 RubyMine after years of not using it.
Transcribe →Model Context Protocol
Aug 300:12:16Tap to summarizeModel 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, perform tasks based on user input or other things.
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