Nicer printing of Rails models
I like my models to be printed nicely, to make the class of the model as well as the id and other data available, so, when they end up in a log or console, I can now exactly what it is. I’ve been doing this since before Rails 3 and since Rails projects now have...
Editing Rails 6.0 credentials on Windows
Rails 6 shipped with a very nice feature to keep encrypted credentials on the repo but separate them by environment, so you can have the credentials for development, staging and production, encrypted with different keys, that you keep safe at different levels. For...
The Highlander query with Rails’ ActiveRecord
For those cases in which there can be one and only one record on the database with certain fields and I don’t just want to get the first one and silently get the wrong one. I want to make sure there’s one and only one, so, I wrote this little extension to...Avoiding threads of emails when developing a Rails application
Call to Buzz, like many applications I developed before, sends emails. Lot’s of emails. To avoid accidentally emailing a customer or random person I use mail_safe. It’s one of the first gems I install on a Rails project and you should too. mail_safe...Currently working on:
MoviePal
Spend less time choosing, and more time watching movies.
MoviePal helps you and your partner or your friends choose what movies to watch. It’s a social network that lets you connect with friends, rate movies, get recommendations, run watch parties, keep your list of movies to watch, etc.
Bestie
Don’t ask for help,
get help.
It’s an app to help friends check in on each other. Periodically it will ask: Are you okay? If there’s no response it will alert your friends to reach out to you. When you are down, all you need to do is nothing.
I'm writting a book...
Building and Managing
Distributed Teams
In this book I distill the techniques and methods that I’ve been using and advising others to use to successfully run distributed teams and whole companies. This book will be short, to the point, tactical, and have tool recommendations.
