Today I was working on an pdf.erb view template in rails. In this case, I wanted to add into the PDF some images that we stored in cloudinary. My first instinct was to use the image tag that’s part of the cloudinary gem: However, the image would not display. Since I’ve rendered images in other […]
Continue ReadingI was configuring a Netgear switch today and having trouble getting everything working. Having only worked with Cisco folks and switches previously, I was completely unaware of the PVID setting until I read the Netgear helpdoc on setting a trunk port. I got everything working but still wasn’t clear until I read Jason Doolittle’s article. […]
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When writing a Rails app I love polymorphic relations. If there’s a good chance I can reuse a model with other objects and I can’t make it a PORO (plain old Ruby object), my relation of choice is likely to be a polymorphic one. Once challenge with polymorphism is documenting the interface future objects will […]
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I’ve been working on a Ruby program and had received a new version of an API to interface with. The new version had moved from GET requests to POST requests, so where before I was getting information with:
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I’ve recently had two instances where I’d create a form: but when I look in my browser, no form tags have been created!
Continue ReadingI was in a discussion recently where the topic of Title IX came up. This is an innocent enough topic normally, but one of the people in the conversation was someone who had a sports management major and, clearly sometime during their education, had been told about a lot of the negative sides. In essence […]
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The open source Visual Town Budget is a great visualization tool that can be used to help your staff, council, or the public more easily see how the budget stacks up. I wanted to get it running locally on my laptop first so I could get the date working before posting it up for staff […]
Continue ReadingI was writing a SQL query to pull data from an existing vendor database into a report. Instead of just ‘dbo.users’ having an ‘id’ column, they normally named the primary key ‘user_id’. While we can argue about the semantics, it had a nice effect that I could search for the column name across the entire […]
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So my wonderful 6-year old Dell XPS 13 Developer edition’s soldering at the power port finally gave way, leaving me with a fully function laptop with only one little issue that it can’t get power. The sent me packing to my ‘backup’ Windows 10 laptop. I really wanted to keep working in a Linux environment […]
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