Drew Bragg articles - 32 total
New Episode! Chris Oliver on Code and the Coding Coders who Code it
Episode 7 - Chris Oliver Code and the Coding Coders who Code...
The Curious Case of the DATA Constant
If you're unfamiliar with Ruby's DATA constant don't feel too bad, it's an easy one to miss. Not...
Using the new `weekday_select` in Rails 7
In most of the Rails apps I've built over the years I've had to add my own helpers for a weekday...
Using Mail Interceptors in Rails
I stumbled upon a super neat feature of ActionMailer the other night. If you scroll all the way to...
Rails Design Patterns: Form Object
Form Object Pattern There are a number of design patterns that will help improve your Rail...
for/in vs. each in Ruby: More than just syntax
During a recent PR review I found myself having to explain why we would want to use each over for/in...
Introducing the Rails class_names method
New to Rails 6.1 is a method called class_names, from the ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper module. This...
Giving credit where credit is due
About a month ago I wrote an article on an issue I had run into a few times and the solution I eventu...
Reset Postgres ID sequence in Rails
Today I had to restore backup data from one of our SQL dumps to my local development database. For o...
TIL: alias in Ruby
Today I learned (learnt?) about the alias keyword in Ruby. I'm not sure how I've gone this long worki...
taco_tuesday gem, now with more tacos
Thanks to Colin Bartlett's awesome contribution to the taco_tuesday gem version 0.2.0 has been releas...
The taco_tuesday gem, cause Tacos
For years I've had to add: class Date def taco_tuesday? tuesday? end end to my ruby pro...
Manifest vs head icons in the Vue CLI PWA Plugin
A couple of weeks ago I opened a PR to update the documentation of the Vue CLI, specifically the PWA...
Handling Service Worker updates in your Vue PWA
Table Of Contents Updating the Service Worker registration Making an update mixin Updatin...
Aaron Patterson's keynote was fantastic
I have always found Aaron Patterson to be hilarious even when bordering on longwinded. I think his op...
Twiddle-wakka (Yes, that's a real thing)
You may or may not know that Ruby has a pessimistic operator: ~> It's actually a pretty cool...
Dev.to is presenting Hacktoberfest?!
I just saw the Hacktoberfest pre-lauch site and noticed that the DEV logo was there! This awesome!...
Adding missing indexes in your Rails App
It's easy to forget to index a model relation. Here's how to find and add it.
How to teach a non-tech person to test an app
My company hires a few interns every summer. Sometimes they are hired for a specific department...
I like to hit vulcanized rubber disks with a stick.
What do you like to do?
Dear future programmer
My version of what launch told me when I started.
acts-as-taggable-on causing SQL errors when ordered by relation
I’m having a weird issue with acts-as-taggable-on when using tagged_with and the any flag. My model...
Where to start refactoring.
One of the first apps I built for my company is still in use today and occasionally gets new...
Today I fixed a bug using the best method name ever
Yes, that's right, Rails has a method named squish. I'll never use gsub again
Handling ActiveStorage direct uploads and server side form validations
Ok, so this is slightly hacky. Let me also preface this by saying there's probably no real need to do...
LibertyJS, who's going?
Philly Devs, who's going to LibertyJS?
Taco Tuesday
Too busy for a real post but never too busy for tacos
Deploying a Rails app to Digital Ocean with Capistrano
Basic server set up to to deploy your application with capistrano
The Dangers of Drinking and Refactoring
WTF is this shit
Lessons I learned from training with special forces that I use in software development
I've had the unique opportunity to train with and be taught by some of Military's best. Who knew that the best warfighters had great insight into programming.