Hi, I'm Chuck Smith

Ruby/Rails Engineer

Specializing Rails, upgrades, and a11y

Chuck Smith

Latest Blog Posts

Learning Rails

Learning Rails

So, I decided to write this article to share a few resources I have used over the last twenty months of learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails in the hopes ...

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Set Up Rbenv Revisited

Set Up Rbenv Revisited

I have been working on setting up a new operating system distribution. I took some time to test out a different package manager, but ended up going ...

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Devise Profile Usernames

Devise Profile Usernames

I have worked on several projects recently with user accounts managed by Devise, and I have been working at changing the way user profile URL's are ...

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Dev Environment with Localhost SSL

Dev Environment with Localhost SSL

Have you ever wanted to set up SSL for localhost development on your computer? No? Honestly, as hard as this can be at times, me neither. What ...

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Rails Basic Template

Rails Basic Template

There is no need for developers to walking the same path, performing the same tasks at the beginning of any project, over and over again. That is what ...

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Rails Image Helper

Rails Image Helper

Often times when developing application, there are times that a developer may need to include logic to conditionally render UI elements. For instance, ...

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