I’ve been an amateur photographer since my second year of college, when I bought a Nikon D40 using my first paycheck as a junior software engineer. Since 2019, I’ve been using a Panasonic G9, a Micro Four-Thirds camera. Since the G9 was originally launched in early 2018, it’s using a...
I’ve often found that most resources around testing (especially around Test-Driven Development) tend to use very contrived examples which may be easy to ingest by the readers, but difficult to put into practice. If you are a Ruby on Rails developer and you still have questions on how to bridge...
One of the side-effects of hype is that people tend to want to participate. This is especially true in the programming community, where you’ll find a lot of tinkerers and the cost of accessing the shiny new thing is generally very low. The problem is that during the hype cycle...
If you are setting up a Rails application for development, and you need to run Postgres locally, you have two options: Install Postgres using the operating system package manager (e.g. apt get) Start a PostgreSQL container Using the Ubuntu package manager Installing locally is fairly trivial and involves just two...
One of the arguments for building web front-ends using tools like React is the ability to provide a better user experience. Nowadays, if you follow the advice of “tech influencers,” it’s a fool’s errand to build a web application without a very rich client layer, a backend split into discrete...
I’ve recently seen a code sample about working with Stripe webhooks in Rails applications and I’ve noticed the following code in the controller: class StripeController < ApplicationController skip_before_action :verify_authenticity_token, only: [ :webhook ] def webhook # Sample code for handling Stripe webhook events end end First of all, I want...
Instance variables (or instance attributes) in Ruby are prefixed with an @ sign: class Person def initialize(salutation: nil, first_name:, last_name:) @salutation = salutation @first_name = first_name @last_name = last_name end def name [ @salutation, @first_name, @last_name ].compact.join(" ") end end john = Person.new first_name: "John", last_name: "Doe" john.name # =>...