In this episode, I walk through what it takes to move all your lovely stuff from one server to another.

Want to speed up your development process and avoid forgetting to run all your specs? Try adding Guard to your project. In this episode, I'll walk you through adding the plugins guard-bundler and guard-rspec to your Rails app.

I talk through the various steps and configurations to make Sidekiq run effectively on a VPS.

Need to create a customer URL for your ActiveRecord models? I demonstrate how to use FriendlyId to set up an unfriendly url. This is taken from a live coding session.

Making API calls or other HTTP requests in your tests? Checkout VCR to record the responses to speed up and simply your tests.

We address an easy fix to having secure images on your site that are stored on AWS s3.

In this episode, I take you through the quick steps for changing the redirect after sign up with Devise. Plus I have a tip for testing at the end.

Here is an update to my Get Launching Series now using Rails 5.

In this episode, we walk through the steps to install and configure Redis on a DigitalOcean droplet.

Continuing This episode details how to set up the Whenever gem to make updating your crontab much easier.

We have our task ready to go, but it's not going to run itself! One option is to run the task with a Cron Job. Future episodes will outline other options.

As we continue our series on Scheduled Tasks, we'll take a little step back to make sure our background job will run correctly by writing a test!

Our guest host, Jeff Denton, takes us through adding React to a Rails project and explaining how all the new files work together.

Love bundler? Then you'll love installing JS libraries with yarn. Our guest host, Jeff Denton, shows us how to use this awesome tool.

Our guest host, Jeff Denton, takes us through updating and reorganizing our code for the Kirk quote pop up by using modules.

Our guest host Jeff Denton takes us through the relatively easy process of setting up Webpack in a Rails app.

Some app features are better handled with rake tasks. In this episode, we create a test for a task that schedules a background job

In this episode, we walk through adding dependencies to our Docker container in 2 different ways.

Now that you have your Rails app set up with Docker, how do you develop an app with it?

We'll create a Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml file to create a brand new Rails app.

I share my take on what makes Docker different and how to install it on Ubuntu.

I'll explain the advantages and disadvantages of the Law of Demeter and share some examples.

Rails 5 changed up how to handle belongs_to and nested forms. In this episode, I demonstrate the differences and show how to create a different path to create a Crew Member.

Let's Encrypt is an awesome free service for basic SSL certificates. With the help of a cron job, it really is a set-it -and-forget-it service!

Make sure your server and your app are well monitored with Monit!

In this episode, I share what worked for me when rekeying a certificate from GoDaddy. I include the steps for a fresh install as well.

Pushing to your Github repo from within a Vagrant box makes using Vagrant even easier!

Now that we have our Vagrant box working with our Rails app, it's time to share it! In this episode, we export the box and then install in on another machine.

After getting Vagrant installed in the last episode, now we're ready to set up the box specifically for our Rails app.

Setting up Rails on your local machine giving you a headache? Maybe it's time to set up a VM (Virtual Machine).

With associated models, you sometimes need to gather records based on an attribute from the associated model. The "merge" method makes that super easy!

Sometimes it's hard to pin down the exact code that's giving you trouble. Using step and next during a pry session can help you debug even faster.

If you need to show the correct time in a time zone in a pretty fashion, strftime and in_time_zone become your new best friends.

In this episode, we go through the process of saving a DateTime attribute considering the correct time zone.

We'll write a test that checks multiple boxes and then delete child objects with a customer controller action.

Testing Javascript elements in a feature spec isn't always easy. In this episode, I'll show you a simple command to test a Jquery datepicker.

We continue to build out our Crew Member Evaluation by adding an attribute that is an enum. I'll define enum and show you how to select with option_for_select in order to save the rating for the Evaluation.

Need to create a nested resource with a has_many association? In this episode, we'll walk through all the file you need to change if you scaffold the brand new model.

If you don't have any custom fonts or icons, then then next step to setting up CloudFront in your app is pretty simple. In any case, watch the full video for a tale of troubleshooting!

Ready to made your website load even faster? A CDN may be a good solution for you. In this episode, we'll discuss CDNs and AWS's product CloudFront.

In this episode, I'll take you through using both before(:each) and before(:all) and showing some ways to avoid any issues.

You may be familiar with the rspec helper method "let", but do you know when you need to use "let!" instead? In this episode, I'll walk you through examples using both "let" and "let!".

To finish off this series on meeting Rails 5, we'll walk through the steps to upgrade your existing Rails 4 app.

In this episode, I'll continue exploring what's new in Rails 5 by demonstrating some changes with several Rails generators and the command line.

We'll generate a Rails 5 app and tour the various new directories and files.

We'll launch an RDS instance and configure our app to use Capistrano RVM during deployment.

Time to launch that EC2! We'll launch the instance and install Ruby with RVM.

We have two more security features to set up before launching our EC2 instance: a Key Pair and a Security Group.

By popular demand, this episode starts a mini-series on deploying to Amazon EC2. We'll up the AWS account and the IAM User.

In this episode, we'll walk through creating model and mailer tests for testing if a new user received a confirmation email.

In this episode, we'll round off the Froala tutorials by introducing how to set up plugins so all the lovely buttons for the Default Toolbar work properly.

Using Froala with the Sanitize gem, I'll show you how to build a simple blog. We'll start with basic tests and add in how to write a feature spec to test a wysiwyg.

Thoughtbot just came out with a beta for Paperclip v5, and we're taking it for a spin. We'll also update to AWS SDK v2 where we need to add the region.

This lesson covers the spec, a different way to sign in via Warden Helpers, and tips on git and reusing code.

In this lesson, we'll clean up our tests, add Paperclip, allow members to add a profile pic, and finish up with a tip on .gitignore.

Confused about when to use includes vs joins when making ActiveRecord calls? In this episode, I break it down and show a few examples.

Continuing from Lesson 4, we'll finish setting up Pundit in order to authorize members to access (or not) Profiles.

We discuss the purpose of Authorization with Pundit and get it set up in your app. Then we'll create our spec for Profile Policies.

We'll set up Authentication with Devise in this next step towards building a clone of AirBnB.

Need to make changes to data on your production app? Here are two strategies to connect to your production database.

Continuing the task of getting the Host set up, we'll create a profile as a nested resource. We add controller specs as well.

We start Unit 2 and get down to business by writing lots of code. We implement Devise with more testing and features.

As we prepare to start building our app, a model diagram is a great way to visualize how the pieces will fit together.

Now that we're planning the app, it's time to talk about Agile Development and User Stories.

In this first lesson, we walk through the course features and what you can expect to learn in each lesson.

This is a follow up episode where we will upgrade Froala to V2 and install as a plugin instead of as a gem.

In a continuation of Ruby Snack #22, I'll walk you through how to save images on Amazon S3 with the Froala WYSIWYG.

Need a simple, clean, easy to install WYSIWYG for your Rails app? I'll show you how to install and configure Froala.

In this episode, I'll take you through contributing a feature to open source using Discourse API as an example.

Setting and deploying environmental variables is a piece of cake with Figaro and a Capistrano gem built for easy deployment.

I'll take you through how I contributed to the Guides and show you how easy it is to follow the step by step process.

I outline various ways you can contribute to open source projects. After talking through some tips, I share a few ways to get started.

To conclude this series, we will make the leap and deploy to Production. There are some twists in this episode so watch carefully!

At the end of this episode, you'll have a Staging site up and raring to go. We'll configure Apache and a domain name.

Continuing this series on deploying to a VPS, we will deploy our code to the server! Woo Hoo!

This episode takes you through installing Capistrano and setting up other files for deploying to a production server.

In this episode, you'll continue working on your VPS by installing Postgres, Imagemagick, Apache, and Passenger.

In Part 1 of this mini-course, I'll take you through creating a Droplet on Digital Ocean and installing Ruby from source.

Wrapping up this series on Nested Forms, we'll add another section to our form in order to create a has many through association.

Continuing our series on Nested Forms from Ruby Snack #05, we'll create a Parent object on the Child's form.

This episode shows you how to write the spec and add the JS links via the Cocoon gem.

Test those mailers! I'll show you how to implement capybara-email and letter opener to ensure your mailers display correctly.

Ready to simplify your model and controller specs? In this episode, I’ll show you how to do that with the gem Shoulda Matchers.

Continuing our journey through the dev gems, this episode introduces Pry, Pry-nav, Pry-rails, and Better Errors.

I’ll explain Nested Forms, write up a fun spec, and show you how to implement this invaluable feature of Rails.

I’ll show you how to use the dev gem simple_bdd to quickly communicate the intent of a test.

This week’s episode takes a brief tour of Devise and how to test signing in with factory_girl_rails and ffaker.

In this episode we’ll set up dev gems capybara-webkit and database_cleaner in order to test a jquery modal.

First up is the must have for BDD, rspec-rails. RSpec is a testing framework that tests behavior rather than only specific methods.