The How and Why of End-to-End Testing
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. Hiring someone to write untested code should be outlawed.
Getting Stuck on the Version of Rails In Your Bundler
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 Rails app.
How to Get Emojis in MySQL (fixing Incorrect String Value)
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...
Halfway to One Point Oh: UTM Version 0.5
Today 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...
Universal Track Manager Version 0.4
Today 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...
Announcing Nonschema Migrations — NOW FOR RAILS 6!
Nonschema 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...
Jason FB’s 10 Magical Ruby Developer Tools
1. 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....
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...
How to Install an Older Version of Rails
My 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...
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...