A few weeks ago, I watched a video from Dean at Deanin on YouTube where he showed how to use StimulusJS to generate reading times for posts/articles in his demo application. In his video, he used a split method to…
For some reason when I’m working with dates in Ruby or R, I forget that there is a super handy method that can be used to format a date, or even a string, so that it looks completely different. Most…
Today, while watching a video by CJ Avilla, he used a neat little gem that describes the schema of the models in his project. At 8:32 (video is cued up below) he installs the Annotate gem and then runs an…
I wanted to find a way to disconnect from work when the day was over so that I wouldn’t think about what needed to be done at different points in the evenings. I really like the Modular watch face for…
Today, I fired up a new Ruby on Rails 7 application to follow along with a tutorial and found that when I ran the bin/dev command in the terminal, I was presented with an error page from the Cloud9 IDE…
I first started using Cloud9 when they were independently owned, but then they sold to AWS and the pricing was kind of unclear especially since you have to have an EC2 instance running. It’s been some time since I’ve looked…
What is Markdown Markdown is a markup language, created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz, that allows you to easily format text by using special characters in a text document. When processed, the markdown characters are converted into formatted text.…
Codeanywhere.com is a cloud based integrated development environment (IDE) that allows you to setup a development environment online, and true to its name, code from anywhere. One of my goals for 2022 is to get back into Rails development now…
I noticed something in the Rails Guide for Rails version 7.0.1 this morning that I hadn’t seen in previous versions of the Getting Started tutorial. Now, the guide has HTTP status codes listed on the Create, Update, and Destroy actions…
Recently, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time researching low code solutions for internal applications at work. We use several different systems and it can be time consuming to jump from system to system looking up information on an…