Archive of development

• • 15 Jan 2021
  • development
  • 3 minute read

  Private ActiveRecord Models with Rubocop

  This is just a quick note to capture the broad strokes of the idea. Later, this could be wrapped in a gem and properly configured.
• • 14 Jul 2020
  • development
  • 5 minute read

  Testing in Production with GoReplay

  This isn’t a full write-up of what’s involved at this point, more of a list of things to think about. Next time I actually do this, I’ll revisit this and write it up more fully.
• • 1 Apr 2020
  • development
  • 2 minute read

  Vagrant NFS Shared Directories on Fedora

  I’ve been using Vagrant on and off for years, previously using the virtualbox provider. A while back I started using the libvirt provider instead, mainly because it doesn’t require futzing around with kernel drivers on Fedora like virutalbox does.
• • 5 Nov 2019
  • development
  • rails
  • 6 minute read

  Large Application Architectures

  A relatively brief discussion of different ways to structure a large and ever-growing web application for long-term sustainability.
• • 12 May 2017
  • development
  • rails
  • 3 minute read

  Complex Object Searching in Rails with Ransack

  A relatively clean way to do free-text searches on ActiveRecord models.
• • 14 Jan 2017
  • development
  • rails
  • 6 minute read

  My Rails Testing Setup

  The purpose of this article is a step-by-step guide to get up and running with my preferred rails testing workflow (against rails 5.0.1/rspec 5.3). It could most likely become an application template as it’s mostly just copying and pasting.
• • 26 Mar 2015
  • development
  • 2 minute read

  Managing Software Versioning with YAVM

  When obeying (or trying to obey) Semantic Versioning it’s convenient to have tools which let you see the current version and keep you right when transitioning between versions. None of the existing tools did exactly what I needed, so I wrote another one…