Matz is Nice and So We Are Nice
It is said of Ruby’s creator Yukihero Matsumoto, ‘Matz is Nice and So Are We.’ It is this mantra about…
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…
HTML Render
The simplest of the Gems I have written is this small tool that does one powerful thing. https://github.com/jasonfb/html-render For some…
Nonschema Migrations
See: Github Nonschema migrations is an old project of mine which I am happy has helped countless teams run data…
Universal Track Manager
Plug-and-play Rails engine for tracking your visitors’ IP address, the ad campaign where they came from, their browser, or the…
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:…
Universal Track Manager 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…
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…
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…
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…