Heroku with a SSL/TLS purchased from SSLRenewals – BYO Instructions
Buy yourself a “RapidSSL Certificate” at SSL Renewals. After you place your order, they may not send you an email, so log in and go to “Orders” and look for the…
Amazon RDS on Heroku Still Works
Although Heroku has put a lot of attention into their own Postgres-based datbase architecture, Heroku Data, this article still works for rebels who want to use Amazon RDS on Heroku:…
How to Install an Older Version of Rails (2018)
You can install an older version of rails using this syntax: rails _5.1.6_ new my-test-app (Where “5.1.6” is the version you want and “my-test-app” is the name of your new…
How to Be a Great Product Owner for Scrum
I think of scrum and agile as always a work in progress. That’s because different teams can practice it to different levels of strictness. That’s ok. The naysayers to scrum…
Announcing Nondestructive Migrations Version 1.3 for Rails 5.1
I am pleased to announce Version 1.3 of my gem nondestructive_migrations. With this update, nondestructive_migrations is ready for Rails 5.1. The Gem’s Github page can be found here: https://github.com/jasonfb/nondestructive_migrations and…
Custom Error Handling in Rails
1. Create an ErrorsController in app/controllers class ErrorsController < ApplicationController def not_found respond_to do |format| format.html { render template: “errors/not_found”, layout: “layouts/application”, status: 404 } end end def…