Git Minutes Podcast Interviews Schneems
Git Minutes Podcast Interviews Schneems: Had a delightful time talking to GitMinutes about workflow, Rails issues, and more. Have a listen and tell me what you think.
View ArticleDear Richard, I stumbled upon your videos after searching for a way to learn...
The course is intended for an audience that has some programming background such as understanding variable assignment and flow control (if/else). If you’re just getting started in any kind of...
View ArticleHello Richard, I was curious after you worked at Gowalla and used PostgreSQL...
Heroku just announced support for postGIS https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/postgis which helps give you geo location features in your DB. I’ve never used Mongo, so I can’t compare the two. I love...
View ArticleYou have the best lesson on Rails hands down. Coming from enterprise Java...
Glad you enjoyed the lessons :)
View ArticleHi Richard. I love your videos; thanks so much (times a million!). I have a...
Happy you’re enjoying them :)As you may know i’m not a programmer by degree, I have a mechanical engineering BS from georgia tech. You don’t need a degree to get a job, but it is harder to get your...
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Testing Against Multiple Rails Versions
Upgrading major versions of Rails sucks. I was there from 0.9 to 1.0, all the way to the famed 2 to 3 release, and they were all painful. I have good news though: Rails 4 is right around the corner,...
View ArticleMy wedding with Ruby featured in Style Me Pretty
My wedding with Ruby featured in Style Me Pretty: Maybe not programming related, but stil features plenty of “Ruby". My wedding was recently featured on style me pretty. Check it out:Sometimes a...
View ArticleHeroku API Demo
Whipped up a quick demo of the Heroku API using Sinatra and heroku-bouncer (heroku’s oauth rack middleware).Check out the source code and the live Heroku API demo
View ArticleJust wanted to say thanks again for all the lessons. Congratulations on the...
Thanks! Sounds like a fun project you’re working on!
View ArticleMaildown: Write your Rails emails in Markdown
Maildown: Write your Rails emails in Markdown: maildown - Write your ActionMailer email templates in Markdown, send in html and plain textIf you’re anything like me, you can’t stand writing email...
View ArticleHi Richard, Thanks for the tutorial it is great. I am following and I love...
Totally. I had one of the attendees at the last Rails Girls event in Austin I helped at use Nitrous.io and everything went well for them. Some of the instructions might be a little off terminology...
View ArticleSpecify Different Gemfile while using Bundler
Travis has a great feature of being able to install gems using a custom Gemfile path. This lets you do things like test against multiple versions of Rails very easily. A project that uses this is...
View ArticlePrepare, Do, Test: Make your Technical Writing Shine
Don’t pump and dump information on your readers: build better community and better view numbers by following the Prepare, Do, Test pattern. Let’s back up. If you’re new to my site: I’ve been teaching...
View ArticleExplain Shell, from your Shell
If you aren’t massively in love with Explain Shell then you’ve not been on the internet today (or at least following the same people I do on twitter). It’s an easy way to see what a unix command does...
View ArticleIf at First you don't Succeed: Retrying Bundler
What do you do when you fail at a task?What do you do when your computer fails at a task?What about your code?As programmers we deal with flaky network connections, crashing data stores, and user input...
View ArticleWicked 1.0.1 Released with Critical Security Fix
If you’re using Wicked, the easy way to build step-by-step wizards in your Rails code please update to Wicked version 1.0.1 immediately a serious security bug was patched. If you do not upgrade, an...
View ArticleWhy Do Heroku Builds Run Without Config by Default?
I got this question awhile ago and answered in Gist form. I recently stumbled on my answer and thought it was worth sharing, so here you go:On Heroku compiles are run without environment variables....
View ArticleTIL how to null out or unset an ENVIRONMENT variable in bash
Heroku compiles your app without environment variables. This is all well and good, but how do you debug a problem that only shows up when an environment variable is missing? Not just set to an empty...
View ArticleTIL: Symbol to Proc Trick not needed in Ruby Inject/Reduce 2.0.0
If you’ve been using Ruby for some time no doubt you’ve done something like this to sum up an array of integers:[1,2,3].inject(&:+) # => 6 This works because Ruby will take the symbol :+ and...
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