In this post we will cover adding a username to Clearance users in Ruby on Rails. This post assumes you already completed Clearance setup instructions for your application and generated the appropriate models, views and controllers....
In this tutorial, we will be creating a Dokku server using DigitalOcean's 1-Click App Marketplace. Creating Your Dokku DropletIf you do not have a DigitalOcean account...
Suppose your Rails application needs to store and access a different application's API Keys on behalf of a user. For example, each user has a Google...
MacOSInstall Homebrew if you do not already have itInstall rbenv via Homebrew (brew install rbenv)Follow the rbenv Homebrew installation guideInstall ruby version 2.7.0...
To construct meaningful user experiences we want to ensure that views provide feedback related to state changes in our software the system. Let's find out how...
Service Objects, Strategies and RailsA common pattern you will discover in Ruby on Rails codebases is the use of so-called "service objects". The goal of service...
Building write capable endpoints is a lot of like defending a castle. This is primarily because, as an old saying in software development goes: all user...
Asynchronous JavasScript and XML aka AJAX (not the mythical hero) is a set of web development techniques to create asynchronous applications. Using AJAX, clients send and...
This template is a worksheet to perform an assessment and planning on your current inventory of goals and satisfaction with your state of life....
Mac OSInstall Homebrew if you do not already have itInstall Go via Homebrew (brew update && brew install golang). This will install the latest version...
Dockerization at 10,000 FeetLet's start with a bit of terminology. Recall that the containerization tool Docker builds objects called "containers" and "images". An image is...
Over the years I have built a few Single Page Web applications (SPAs) using frontend frameworks such as React and Vue. But recently, I was building...
Welcome back to "Who wrote this Go service anyway?", where the code is made up but the implementation does matter. In tonight's episode we...
How to install and use multiple versions of Go programming language...
A Primer on SSH KitSSHKit is a Ruby gem created by the wonderful folks behind the Capistrano project. SSHKit is designed to run arbitrary system commands...
Let's look at very simple implementation of the strategy pattern in Ruby....
You may be familiar with the concept of memes (not the internet image macros) from previous letters I've written citing Dr. Rene Girard. From my view: memes are a study of "social genetics" and the tracing of horizontal transfer of ideas between groups....
Memoizing how to create a standard reusable Ruby Faraday HTTP Client in Rails for myself....
I forget how to do this a lot. This is me memoizing it for myself. This is not optimal but will get you off ground zero....
Have you ever wonder why you never needed to require any files or modules in the Rails work we've done so far? This is one of the nicesties of using Ruby on Rails framework: the auto-loading feature. Let's build it in Sinatra...