TIL: Running Rails 5 / Ruby 2 on Ubuntu 2022.4
I saw an article that Ubuntu 2022.10 had been released, which spurred me to finally upgrade my Dell laptop from 2018.4 to 2022.4 Everything went great!… until I went to write some code.
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Category: Development
TIL – Generating a Model that `references` an Alias
Let’s say you have a Business class in Rails..and maybe you want to records mergers, so you want to create a Merger class. Normally, when we create a model, we use the references type: so rails will automatically create both the <model>_id fields and the index: In this case though, we don’t want to reference […]
Continue ReadingTIL – Using a Cloudinary Resource with the Wicked PDF Gem
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 ReadingThe Difference Between PVID vs Untagged VLANs
I 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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The Shared Green: Rails Polymorphism Commons
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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The Case of the Broken API Params
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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Is Your Rails Form not Rendering Correctly? Check your HTML
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!
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Using StimulusJS for Type-ahead Search (2/2)
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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Using StimulusJS for Type-ahead Search (1/2)
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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