I 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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The Rails Side I’ve recently started using StimulusJS as the web framework for a Rails 5.2 application. In Part 1 I built a simple type-ahead search form. In this second half I walk through using a controller and partials to render the results, just like a traditional Rails app.
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Part 1 – The Front End I’ve recently started using StimulusJS as the web framework for a Rails 5.2 application. My first task with it was to build a simple type-ahead search form.
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Post-mortem of my time at Voterheads; what went well and what not so much.
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