Brian Kephart articles - 14 total
Rendering Views through Action Cable with Devise and CanCanCan
This week I worked on rendering partials over websockets with Action Cable. I ran into a problem that...
Collection Caching in Rails with Local Variables
Yesterday I was trying to improve the performance of collection rendering in my rails app. The page I...
Mac users, recommend me a booklet printer!
The music school I work at currently uses a Konica Minolta Bizhub 364e. One of these: Ever since...
75 people followed me yesterday. Why?
I used to get a few follows most days. That tapered off since I haven’t been posting lately. I...
Template design pattern in Ruby. Any reason not to use a module instead of a superclass?
The classic template design pattern uses inheritance to declare which methods its subclasses must...
Dropdowns Without Javascript
You don't need a Javascript library for dropdown menus, just a few lines of CSS.
Adding Code Quality Checks To Your Ruby Test Suite
Over time I've integrated a few static analysis tools into my workflow. These have been extremely...
Explain Generics Like I'm Five
I often see discussion about generics, but I've never really grasped what they are. I'm a Ruby/Rails...
Passing Arguments to StimulusJS Controllers
tl;dr – You can't, but there are other ways of getting data into your functions.
What hobby/skill do you wish you pursued more regularly?
What activity deserves more time than you can give it?
My Experience as a RailsConf Opportunity Scholar
You really need to go to RailsConf.
Testing Bidirectional Associations in Rails
Adventures in TDD, or how I learned to make my test suite proofread my model associations.
Redis is letting you down, but it doesn't have to
Are you seeing Redis::ConnectionError: Connection lost (ECONNRESET)? Is your cache hit rate suspiciously low? A story of the bug I didn't know I had, how I found it, and how I got rid of it. It's easy, I promise.
Basic Concurrency in Ruby. Really Basic.
We read a lot about concurrency in Ruby. How do you actually do it, though? Here's how I made some concurrent, non-blocking API calls from a Rails app.