Drifting Ruby Screencasts
Drifting Ruby Screencasts
Dave Kimura
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.
Ten Years of Frontend
In this episode, we look at where we were years ago and the journey where we have landed today. Over the past 10 years, much has changed with our approach to client interactions and in the episode we explore my favorite and current approach.
May 3
17 min
Video
Easter Eggs
Easter 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.
Apr 5
3 min
Video
N+1 Driven Development
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 later and become the hero.
Apr 1
6 min
Video
Optimizations
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 and adds complexity.
Mar 1
19 min
Video
Claude Code
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.
Feb 1
23 min
Video
Self Hosted App
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 in place geo restrictions to help prevent unwanted access.
Jan 4
14 min
Video
Cool Things in Fizzy
In this episode, we look deploying Fizzy to a server and look at some of the notable practices found in the code.
Dec 7, 2025
20 min
Video
Failover Requests
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 the Ollama Cloud as a failover to a locally hosted instance of Ollama.
Nov 2, 2025
11 min
Video
Omarchy
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.
Oct 5, 2025
11 min
Video
RubyMine
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 RubyMine after years of not using it.
Sep 7, 2025
18 min
Video