I've learned a few things the hard way. How to properly use Active Record callbacks with Ruby on Rails is one of those things.
Jun 15, 2020How to use a "www" subdomain as your primary domain on a Rails app hosted with Heroku.
Jun 05, 2020Turbolinks is a great idea in theory, but it comes with enough problems to offset its benefits.
Mar 15, 2016Sometimes you need to get to a class that you have deleted or renamed within a migration file. Here's how you do it.
Mar 13, 2016You got yourself into that pickle where you created a migration, migrated, deleted the migration, then tried to rollback. Here's how you get around it!
Mar 08, 2016You can avoid multiple requests to your server by rendering SVG images inline to the rest of your HTML.
Feb 11, 2016Post a message to one of your Slack channels when your Rails app encounters a 500 error.
Dec 22, 2015That whole killing two birds with one stone approach might just work in using PaperTrail as an activity log, at least in simpler projects.
Jun 15, 2015Transitioning from one database to another, or even to a whole new database with a new adapter, can be tough. Here's an easy way to transition content.
May 25, 2015Sometimes you want to disable some of the default rake tasks in a rails project. Here's a quick way to do just that.
May 15, 2015This site was created and is maintained by Sean C Davis. It was designed by Matt Willett.
The stack is Gatsby, Tailwind CSS, and loads of other open-source software. The code is built, deployed, and hosted with help from GitHub and Netlify.
And here's a super important legal document Sean made up.