Using Mutations in Rails
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...
Mass Assignment Attacks in Rails
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...
Server generated JavaScript Responses (SJR) in Rails
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...
Life Inventory Worksheet
This template is a worksheet to perform an assessment and planning on your current inventory of goals and satisfaction with your state of life....
Rails is a Solo Developer's Lever
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...
Creating a Go HTTP Server with Gorilla
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...
Go Version Management
How to install and use multiple versions of Go programming language...
How to Set up SSHKit In Rails
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...
Simple Ruby Strategy Pattern
Let's look at very simple implementation of the strategy pattern in Ruby....
Ideas and Their Cohabitation Within Us
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....
Faraday HTTP API Client in Rails
Memoizing how to create a standard reusable Ruby Faraday HTTP Client in Rails for myself....
Dockerize Rails Application
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....
Creating Autoloading In Sinatra
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...
Kindness.txt
(Tip) Keep a small text file or note somewhere called something like kindness.txt. When someone gives you a meaningful compliment or recognition for an achievement...
Paradise Lost
Milton invokes the Muse at the start of his journey to inspire him to justify the ways of God to men. Paradise Lost, therefore, has something...
Setup CircleCI for Sinatra with PostgreSQL and ActiveRecord
CircleCI, PostgreSQL, ActiveRecord, Sinatra setup...
Building App Wide Flashes in Rails
Make It Flashy We're not making any fashion statements in this post but we will be setting up some flash messaging for an application using Rails'...
Rack in Rails
What does it mean for Rails to be be a "rack based web framework?". Let's find out...
How Does Rails Assign Variables to Rendered Views?
Over the course of this post we will investigate one source of that "Rails magic" that perplexes developers: how Rails assigns Controller instance variables to view templates....
Hugo and Netlify CSS not loading
Common gotcha in deploying Hugo static sites to Netlify...