CircleCI 2.0 w/ Ruby + RSpec, MySQL, Redis, and ElasticSearch
I finally stopped ignoring those "We know you’re working on migrating from CircleCI 1.0 to 2.0..." emails and spent some time doing just that.
Don't deploy the wrong branch again
Capistrano is a really great tool to help automate deployments. It's super convenient... but sometimes a little too convenient when you accidentally deploy your experimental development branch to production. Fun times.
Using Ruby's TracePoint to view a method chain
After seeing Matsuda's talk at RailsConf 2016, we wanted to trace method calls for ourselves and see what's really happening under the hood.
Building a Blogging Engine
In collaboration with STEM NOW, I'll be leading another Ruby on Rails workshop at San Jose State University on March 20th, 2015. Over the course of two sessions, we'll focus on getting your development environment up and running, building a simple blogging engine, and implementing user authentication.
Building a simple HackerNews / Reddit Clone
I'll be doing a Ruby on Rails workshop at San Jose State University on October 30th. My workshop is aimed at beginners with Ruby and Rails, who have at least some experience with web applications, HTML, navigation in the terminal, and the concepts of MVC frameworks.
A Simple & Effective Git Workflow
Ah, git. Everyone's favorite command line revision control system. You hear horror stories of losing weeks of work on a bad merge, breaking production, or accidently overwriting the master branch with experimental code. Whenever someone asks me for help with git, I almost always end up recommending the same thing: Rebase.
Better Conditional Validations in Rails
At CoverHound, we try to keep as close to Rails conventions as possible, using built-in validations to check our shopper model. Issues arose when we wanted to selectively validate specific attributes.