I’m proud to be involved in the Ruby community. I want to do what I can to help other developers discover Ruby. Whether that’s seasoned non-Ruby developers or people like me who stumble into programming, I want to help. As part of that, I’ve recently started on a project to help people learn Ruby. The […]
Author Archives: Jason Charnes
Using Ruby in 2019
Stop me if you’ve heard this one… Ruby is dead!Hacker News As someone actively writing (and heavily invested in) Ruby, it’s hard not to question if I’m “missing the boat” when I hear such things. In an attempt to “stay relevant,” if you will, I spent the better part of last year exploring other programming […]
Goodbye, 2018
It’s the last day of 2018. Like most things in 2018, I waited until the last possible minute to write this. Some great things happened, which I’m excited to share. Some less stellar things happened and some things didn’t happen. Either way, I want to take time to put my thoughts on paper this site. […]
Remote Ruby #20: Trivia Questions and Answers
On episode 20 of the Remote Ruby podcast, Chris and I play a game of trivia. These questions are composed of information from Wikipedia and beneggett/ruby-trivia. I have no doubts that some of this information could be wrong. I was a late bloomer to Ruby. 😎 I hope you enjoy(ed) the episode. According to Matz, […]
Eager Loading/Querying Against ActiveStorage Attachments
ActiveStorage, the new kid on the block. It’s exciting for Ruby on Rails developers to have a built-in solution for file uploads/attachments. Let’s talk about interacting with the table ActiveStorage gives us. There are times that we’ll want to reach for eager loading and even query against our attachments. Without much effort, it’s easy to […]
Adding Bootstrap 4 Errors to Rails Fields with Errors
The other day I was working on a new Rails application. Though I’m currently obsessed with Tailwind CSS, this project was a better fit for Bootstrap. I needed some predefined styling, quick. Unfortunately, fields with errors got in my way. The app, like most web applications, required forms. Using Ruby on Rails’ (ActiveRecord) model validations, […]