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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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'...
What does it mean for Rails to be be a "rack based web framework?". Let's find out...
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....
A side alley adventure into Rails API error handling....
Since the release of Rails 6, there have been some changes made to default tools for asset compilation. Let's uncover how to adding Twitter Bootstrap has changed....
Adding Cross Origin Resource Sharing Requests (CORs) to Ruby on Rails...
What is Passenger? Rails uses built in /Puma/ web server (alternative Unicorn) $ rails server Usually apps have Apache or Nginx web server for serving static files...
Basics Unicorn is a “Rack HTTP server for fast clients and Unix” Rack is a gem that acts as an interface for ruby applications to response...