Mike Rogers ✈️ articles - 21 total
Moving From Tailwind To Vanilla-er CSS
I've been playing around with Tailwind CSS a lot since it's release, and so far it's been really impr...
How To Handle Special Actions In Ruby on Rails Controllers?
Imagine you have a table called crops in your database, which contains a column named harvested_at. Y...
Persist Scroll Positions with Hotwire Turbo
Persisting the scroll position of an element is a nice way to keep users not get lost on your web...
How To Encrypt Fields in Ruby on Rails with Lockbox
If you're storing any sensitive data such as API Keys, or personal data you should probably be en...
Fixing "sqlite3 gem which is not supported on Heroku"
When I first tried to deploy my Ruby on Rails app to Heroku, I ran into a really annoying error w...
Review Emails with ActionMailer::Preview
Rails is one of my favourite frameworks, I think because it ships with a little known feature cal...
Resize Images with Active Storage in Rails
We used to have to use gems like Carrierwave & Paperclip to upload files & manipulate ima...
How To Setup A Secondary Archive Account On GitHub
If you're anything like me, you probably have a GitHub account where you've collected a lot of reposi...
Inline Editing With turbo_frame_tag (hotwire-rails)
One of my favourite Single Page Application (SPA) tricks is allowing the user to edit something (...
Real-Time Partial Updates in Ruby on Rails using hotwire-rails
The hotwire-rails was just released today by Basecamp. It's a collection of JavaScript & Ruby...
How to Make Rails Work Offline (PWA)
I've been experimenting a lot lately with allowing Ruby on Rails to work offline, by this I mean havi...
Is reset_column_information a code smell?
If you've worked with Ruby on Rails you've probably written a migration at some point that made use o...
ActiveRecord::Events - Awesome Gems
I really like using timestamps over booleans, they add so much more free information compared to...
Lorgage - Taming Rails Logs (Video)
I've love steaming through the Rails logs, they can help debug problems pretty quickly. However b...
Admin Panels In Rails 6 (Video Series)
One of my most reached for gems when working with Ruby on Rails is ActiveAdmin. It's a framework for...
Seeding Data In Ruby On Rails
I've been working on recording a few of my presentations, I still don't think I've perfected the styl...
Was my GitHub Action a success?
It's September 23 tomorrow & that means the GitHub Actions Hackathon on DEV is coming to an end....
Using Docker to Speed-up My GitHub Action
I wrote my GitHub Action using Ruby, however out the box it requires a few libraries to run, which me...
People are using my Action :D
My GitHub Action ( TypoCI/spellcheck-action FYI! ) is coming along nicely, now I'm moving onto the ha...
Picking the right Open Source License
One of the requirements for GitHub Actions Hackathon is to have an Open Source license. Truth be to...
Spell Check Commits & PRs
I hate having spelling mistakes in my code. I want to make sure the next person to sees my work has a...