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Assets precompile without a database in Rails 4 and 5
The other day I had a request from my IT guy. He asked: “Hey, can you make rails not connect to the database when running assets precompile?” I said sure… So why would we need to run a precompile without db connection? Well, for one thing, we are deploying to gcloud. For our current set…
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Calculate the Size of Base64.strict_encode64 in Ruby
I was in need to calculate the size of the output of Base64.strict_encode64. I wanted to get this value to determine if the file was too big to send to an API endpoint. If the file was too big I didn’t want to spend time processing and trying to send the data. So I put…
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Invoking a Rake Multitask in a loop
I am running selenium tests that I launch using a rake task. Recently I wanted to run a bunch on them concurrently every so often. The problem I ran into immediately, was that the tasks were only executed once. It turns out that, when calling a multitask multiple times, you not only have to .reenable…
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TIL some awesome ActiveRecord behaviors in Rails
So I started using rails about 3 months ago and it has been awesome. ActiveRecords was my first experience using ORM. I wish I had started using this a long time ago since using associations makes life so easy. As you read tutorials, there are many things that are left out. And unless you find…
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Adding and Removing Children From a Form in Rails 4
This is a topic that seems to get asked a lot and answered in so many different ways. I haven’t really found an answer that I considered full and easy to follow. Also, most answers were give for rails 3. So I decided I would share my implementation. I have made this project available in…
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Handling dates when using Rails 4, bootstrap and bootstrap3-datetimepicker-rails gem
The bootstrap3-datetimepicker-rails is a very nice plugin that adds a nice date and time picker to your bootstrap based rails application. I started using it the other day and I ran into huge problems. I will show you what I did and explain why I did it rather than explain the problems before hand.
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Using Devise to create a new Copmany that a User belongs_to in Rails 4
I was creating my first Rails app the other day and although the online tutorials are very useful, I couldn’t find a way to have my devise registration form create a new company and assign it to the new User. After a lot of googling and hair pulling I made it work. I created a…
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Setting Up A Ruby On Rails Dev Enviroment in Ubuntu For PHP Developers
So I am trying to jump on the ruby bandwagon and just spent a few days trying to understand how to configure a dev machine. Now, being a PHP developer I am spoiled by the relative easiness to set up a dev environment. The options are abundant: WAMP servers, the manual install is very easy,…