Drifting Ruby Screencasts

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.

Short URLs

In this episode, we look at a cool little project that you can create and build upon. We take in a full length URL and can squish it down into a shortened link.

10-04
11:11

Native Dialog

In this episode, we have a look at using native dialogs and popovers in our Rails application. No external libraries necessary!

09-06
08:35

Function Calling

In this episode, we look at adding function calling or tool use to our Rails application when making generative text LLM requests.

08-02
12:11

Claude Skills

In this episode, we look at creating Claude slash commands. These can be useful when dealing with a complicated task or trying to extract certain information from the application.

07-05
10:46

Polling for New Records

Websockets are great, but they are not always the right approach. In this episode, we will look at implementing a long polling for new records.

06-07
13:40

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