Today I was experimenting with generating database views. For debugging purposes I was including the rails model name and a random string as the name of the view. To my chagrin, the table name was being truncated and not including the random string, causing some name collisions when running the
Now that our Rails models are in order we can finally get to creating our first GraphQL API. Step 1: Set up the gem graphql-ruby has great documentation for doing setup. But I will describe how to get it up and running for our test. Generate the installation $ rails g
I have recently been looking into django and other frameworks. I have been working quite a bit with the rails GraphQL gem. In this article, I want to test the difference between both frameworks in providing graphql data to a common interface In this sample project we'll start
So, I knew this was possible. I have certainly used smooth scrolling in the past. Maybe I even used a jQuery library or two to do it. Of course, I know it could be done in pure JS ... But I haven't had the opportunity to do it for
#theNewHotness I've been hearing about the awesomeness of elm for a little while now. It's a strongly typed functional language written for crafting user interfaces that compiles into javascript. It also has a virtual-dom implementation that claims to be faster than react. If you're
My post on upgrading to rails 4.2 is now over a year out. The new beta has been out since December and it's time to try the New Hotness™. To start I'm using this blog post from heroku. The following are my impressions in upgrading
React has been the new hotness for a good year now, which means that there are about 47 new frameworks trying to take it's place. In this post I want to take a look at cycle.js which proposes to be a fully functional reactive human computer interface
One of the most common coding interview questions is the FizzBuzz. It essentially demonstrates that you have a basic knowledge of looping and if/else statements. The Problem: 1. print all of the numbers from 1-100 2. If a number is divisible by 3 print the number followed by '
The new 4.2 release of rails just hit RC3 and should be available for release before Christmas. So, I decided to take advantage of the new adequate record update and the fancy new active jobs interface for a project I am working on. Here are the notes from my
Background So recently I've been working with the SirTrevor Block Editor for a couple of projects I've been working on. This post is a quick rundown of the editor and block lifecycles. The Editor Lifecycle Initialize() 1. DOM Setup ST double checks that it has a
So I recently heard about semantic ui on the changelog podcast. It had a ton of options but was still such a young project that I originally hesitated using it in production code. It's still in Aplha (yes, I'm giving into my cargo-culting tendencies here...), but
So recently I've been trying to sharpen up my javascript skills. One of the sites I've been using a bit is codewars.com (because studying is always a bit easier if you can do it competatively). Whilst going through some competitors answers to a particular challenge,