21. Easy authentication with Rails and Devise
I am at a stage of the website where I require some authentication - in my case, to create content on the website, i.e. to make posts, I will require…
18. Simple steps to making site secure with SSL and Heroku
We already deployed our RoR app to Heroku in this post. Let's set up SSL with Heroku and our Rails application. I've actually wasted several hours sorting out SSL manually,…
15. Fast and easy way to optimise your Rails DB queries and Active Storage
This post is an extension to previous Active Storage post covered in section 7. Here we will look at an advanced query and fine tuning it to remove N+1 queries…
11. RoR: Simple steps to generate your sitemap and connect it to Google
This chapter assumes you've linked to Google Search Console (check chapter 10 if you have not). Sitemaps are useful in your website to assist with SEO. They will be very…
9. Simple way to link your domain + webapp
From previous post, we've looked at deploying our application with Heroku. This is now live at its own location (https://yazii.herokuapp.com/search-for-tech-jobs). What we'd like to do is make it available in…
8. Heroku + RoR + React: Deployment made nice and easy
This post is going to go over the process of taking your Ruby on Rails application with Webpacker and React front-end and deploying it with Heroku. If you haven't got…
7. RoR and S3 – Easy way to setup active storage
If you haven't created a RoR project yet, you may find this post useful to get started. Part of the project associations, most data can just be kept in the…
RoR – Simple way to setup you database, models and associations
This chapter is relatively straight forward and is more of a refresher than anything else. It's a reminder that spending time on determining the correct associations early will help save…
RoR and AWS – Simple way to use Comprehend example
If you're following the blog, we now have Rails setup with some basic front end components. What we may want to start doing is processing some items in the back-end…
Rails and React – Single page application with Webpacker
Ok now you have your Ruby on Rails application, got all the basic pre-requisites completed and want to create a SPA with React. If you missed how to get the…