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• #ruby

What is a Struct? A Struct in Ruby is one of the built-in classes which basically acts a little like a normal custom user-created class, but…

• #mongodb
• #postgres
• #databases

Intro to MongoDB MongoDB is an object or document based database... in other words, a NoSQL database. This puts it in contrast to databases…

• #ruby
• #ruby-on-rails

Situation Maybe you originally wrote some code for a Rails project that you're trying to use in another framework, in an automation script…

• #ruby

The basics of Rack Taken from the Rack website : Rack provides a minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks…

• #career

My switch from PHP to Ruby as primary language About 3 years ago I started coding the first version of FlipGive, an online fundraising…

• #tech

Deciding on technologies When deciding on which technologies to focus your time and energy on to learn, or whether it makes sense to use one…

• #ruby-on-rails

What are tree structures used for? Tree structures are needed any time you want to insert a hierarchy into your data. It's when you want to…

• #performance
• #ruby-on-rails

Hi, Leigh, are you busy? The website is no longer responding... can you investigate? A phone call nobody really likes to receive on a…

• #ruby
• #enumerable

Ruby's Collect method Ruby's collect method is part of the Enumerable mixin; a mixin which provides very useful and powerful methods for…

• #ruby

What is the Tap method? Ruby's tap method allows you to "tap into" a method chain, modify an object and receive that same object as the…

• #postgres
• #databases

Why do this? Recently at work we had 1 data model that was getting a bit out of control. When we first modelled the data it made sense, but…

• #ruby
• #enumerable

What is an Enumerable? Enumerable is a Ruby mixin/module which provides a large set of functionality to collection classes. You already know…

• #i18n
• #ruby-on-rails

Why does this site have I18n? It's a good question because my content is only available in English (perhaps I should write some articles in…

• #junior
• #career

The life of a developer Working as a software developer is the decision to become a lifelong learner. What you learn today has a good chance…

• #angular
• #ruby-on-rails

Using Angular in Rails App Single Page Applications (SPA) aren’t incredibly new any more, but there are a lot of people with Rails…

• #ruby-on-rails

Our Goal In this article I'd like to discuss how to implement user authentication into this blog. In this article about modelling the data…

• #rspec
• #ruby-on-rails

Background At FlipGive we use RSpec to handle all of our testing. Over the years we've built up quite a few tests... last count there…

• #ruby-on-rails

Today's Goal: Creating an Admin Section This website, along with most of the other ones I create end up having an admin section; a place…

• #postgres
• #database
• #ruby-on-rails

What is PgHero? PgHero is a gem written by Andrew Kane for getting quick insights into how your Postgres database is performing and where…

• #ruby-on-rails

Deciding What Models are Needed In my last article in this series, getting started with ruby on rails , we worked through getting Rails…

• #ruby-on-rails

Git Init The first thing I do when starting a new project is to create a new git repository. GitHub is great if you don't mind the code…

• #psql
• #database

Overview PSQL is the command line tool for accessing the PostgreSQL database. I recommend anyone using Postgres to at least learn the basics…

• #postgres
• #database

The Problem Say you have a table of people and you want to sort them alphabetically by their nickname in descending order (Z - A). That…

• #ruby-on-rails

What is a Mail Interceptor? When using ActionMailer in Rails, there is a way to hook into the outbound message after you call the "deliver…

• #software-development

Intro To Pull Requests A pull request is when you are wanting to merge code from one git branch to another, and instead of just merging it…

• #json
• #api
• #ruby-on-rails

When building a RESTful API in Rails, there are many different options and gems you can use to format your JSON responses. This isn't a post…

• #ruby
• #ruby-on-rails

Block based configuration is a pattern you see quite a bit when using ruby. When I look at this website itself, there are 3 different gems…

• #junior
• #career

10. Don't Feel Discouraged It's easy to feel discouraged when you first start at something... anything, not just programming. Lance…

• #junior
• #career

Having The Right Mindset When bringing on junior developers to the team, you obviously have some goals for them, but you shouldn't forget…

• #ruby-on-rails

Barby is a great gem for when you have to generate a barcode or QR code. You can choose to output it as any number of barcode types or as a…