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....
Disable Same Origin Policy in Chrome
For macOS open -a Google\ Chrome -args -disable-web-security -user-data-dir Linux chromium-browser -disable-web-security -user-data-dir="[some directory here]" For Windows chrome.exe -disable-web-security See this SO post
Announcing Nonschema Migrations
After many years, I decided that my gem nondestructive migrations needed a facelift. It had some cruft I didn't want, was packaged in the wrong...
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...
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...
How to Be a Great Software Project Manager or 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...
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...
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:...