Adam Rogers articles - 12 total
I’m on Team Good Commit Messages
There has been some debate on the value of good commit messages, and if we need them at all. I’m on...
Updating Rails applications with vimdiff
This is probably one of those things everyone knows about, but I only just figured it out, so here it...
GeoJSON, PostGIS and the Right-Hand Rule
GeoJSON expects Polygon and MultiPolygon features are required to be "right-hand wound". I understand...
Connect a local Rails app to an RDS Instance via an SSH tunnel through a bastion server
Editor's note: this is supposed to be a bit tongue-in-cheek. We've all felt like this...
Rails System Tests with Headless Chrome on Heroku CI
Sometimes your Rails apps just need to execute JavaScript in a real browser. But you also want to run...
Password management on the command line
pass is a command line password manager for Linux that embodies the UNIX philosophy. It's like 1Passw...
Rails FormBuilders with TailwindCSS
TailwindCSS is all about adding lots of utility classes to your markup to style elements directly. Th...
Bridgetown and Environment Variables
This afternoon I had a bit of a time getting environment variables working in my first real stab at a...
Re: Learning to code
My dear brother emailed me asking how he could use all this free time he's got in "lockdown" to build...
Immutable ActiveRecord Models
I've just implemented something that I think is pretty neat in DeskBeers - an immutable ActiveRecord...
Creating and updating users with omniauth
There are a number of tutorials, including the omniauth overview, that suggest having a method along...
Switching to Zeitwerk
I’ve just bumped DeskBeers up to Rails 6.0. One of the new things in this release of Rails is the new...