Tagged with “ruby”

Rails Configuration

So this article you can file away as what I learned today #TIL. This surprised me so much I am writing to share. This is written specifically about ...

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Rails Boilerplate

So far in this series, we have looked at the benefits of using a Boilerplate to streamline your workflow, and a two articles on how to set up a React ...

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Refactor Rails

As any one journeys through any profession, one thing holds true. Hopefully, the longer you work at it, the better your skills will develop, at least ...

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Rails Testing Setup

How do you setup a Rails project for testing? In this article we will explore what a testing suite, using RSpec and other tools, for a robust ...

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Rails Code Along

So I am always looking for ways to increase my skills on the Ruby on Rails platform. As I look for first professional dev job, afters years as a ...

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Rails DRY Controllers

In any programming language, it is important to create DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) code. In this article we will explore three methods of writing ...

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Rails Active Storage

On any web application, the ability to use images are tantamount. In a Ruby on Rails project, using Active Storage increases the flexibility to use ...

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Rails Gravatar

In the previous article in this series, we learned about Active Storage. We set up an interface to allow a user to add an Avatar to their user ...

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New Rails Template

In this article we take a look at a more complete Rails template, to start a new Rails project. Why? With a custom template, you can start developing ...

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Ruby 3.0 adds

After the last four or five years of the promises of a new major version of Ruby (Ruby 3), it looks like this new version is set to release on ...

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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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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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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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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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