Tested codebases are the most signficiant development from Rails and Agile over the last 15 years. End-to-end testing, in particular, is the defining reason why Agile and Rails have been so successful. Not writing tests should be seen as akin to malpractice in software development....
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Confusingly, bundler can have more than one version of Rails installed at once. In this short post, I will review how to check which version of Rails bundler has installed, and how to know which version of Rails you are using to make a new...
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So your Rails application with a MySQL database was humming along and all of a sudden it hit this error: Mysql2::Error: Incorrect string value: '\xC5\x99\xC3\xA1k What does that mean? Upon inspection you realize that someone has typed into your website the all-too-favorite Millenial communication tool: the emoji....
Read MoreToday I've finished version 0.5 of my new Gem, Universal Track Manager. It's a plug-and-play Rails engine that you install into your Ruby on Rails application with just three simple steps (see the README). You can then immediately pick up your visitors': IP address Ad campaign...
Read MoreToday I'm announcing Version 0.4 of my new Gem: Universal Track Manager. It's an great little utility project that will surely have appeal to many websites and developers. Visitors come to your site every day. Along with their visits, four key pieces of information come...
Read MoreNonschema migrations version 5.0.0: RubyGems Page, GitHub page Now compatible with Rails 6, nonschema_migrations is the best way to separate your schema changes from your data changes. Want to run no-downtime deploys with data-only migrations? No problem. Install it in your Rails app today to see...
Read More1. deivid-rodriguez/byebug Byebug is a fantastic debugger available for Ruby 2 (and presumably above). Drop gem 'byebug' into your Rails app Gemfile and bundle install. In either your test run or your development run, write byebug on a single line of your app and voila. When...
Read MoreAlthough 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: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/amazon-rds Note that I can't seem to get "sslca" to work as a config option in my...
Read MoreMy post from four years ago with this same title is Google's #2 result for a search for "How to Install an Older Version of Rails," so I thought I'd make a repost with some updates. You can install an older version of rails using this...
Read MoreI 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 you'll find a sample app for Rails 5.1 here. Version 1.3 is officially pushed to Rubygems as of...
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