Because Google Go (Golang) is not a functional language, it does not include a standard library full of functional utilities like map/filter/all/any. With a little of coding, we accomplish this in a few lines.
FilmFestivald – A comprehensive global calendar of Film Festivals launched
I have done a soft launch of a simple Film Festival Calendar, called FilmFestivald. I’ll be adding more features later. This site was built using Ruby on Rails 5 (beta) with slim, coffeescript, jQuery, etc. The first iteration only took a few hours to build. Please email if you have any feedback. We have a simple contact form on the site
7 ways to make the best use of your freelance programmer
Getting the most out of your freelancing programmer can be one of the best moves you make! Save yourself time and money with this valuable guide!
There are certain things that you can do right or wrong that cannot only end up costing you time and money, but it can also cost you a valuable freelancing programmer. It is important that you understand the best ways to get the most out of your freelance programmer. In the following article, we will discuss seven of the best ways to get the most out of your freelancer!
Dead Simple provisioning for Ruby on Rails & Postgres with Vagrant and Centos 6.6
In my last blog post, I covered Dead Simple provisioning for Ruby on Rails & MySQL with Vagrant and Centos 6.6
Let’s run through a similar config, only this time using PostgreSQL 9.4
Dead Simple provisioning for Ruby on Rails & MySQL with Vagrant and Centos 6.6
One of the hardest things about getting started with Vagrant is the time it takes develop a good provisioning system for the virtual machine. Many people reach to Chef or Ansible too quickly and become overwhelmed by complexity. It was recently suggested that one start with a simple provision script.
Run Rake tasks on the server with Capistrano 3 and rbenv
I have been all over Capistrano 3 lately and found that it is sometimes easier to do things than I expect. Here is an example of a task I had to write, based on some other people’s StackOverflow comments.
Add Jira Issue Number to Git Commit Message
Recently, I have been working on a project with the Atlassian toolchain which includes: Jira (Issue Tracking), Stash (git), Bamboo (Continous Integration – build and deploy) and Confluence (Wiki).
Add Rubocop to every Rails project
The longer I have been in programming, the more I think that following best practices for coding style is an essential quality of a good programmer. When working on a team, I find many people want to debate about these things. While this can be fun, after a while it can become a time suck and a waste of energy. The best thing is to simply agree on a standard style guide and conform to it.
Using the “Form Pattern” with an ActiveAdmin controller
Background:
ActiveAdmin is Rails Engine that provides an Admin Framework with tons of functionality. ActiveAdmin wraps around ActiveRecord Models and provides a standardized CRUD (create-read-update-delete) interface. Sometimes you may want a form that isn’t tied to an existing model in your Rails, to accomplish this, you can use a Form
My Heroku Cheatsheet
You can find all this in the Heroku docs, I’m just filtering out the stuff I use very frequently. I will keep updating this so check back later. ALl of my examples include the -a myapp at the end because 95% of my apps have both staging and production environments so I have gotten in the habit of using this option.
Heroku Postgres DB
Download current database:
heroku pgbackups:capture --expire
curl -o latest.dump `heroku pgbackups:url`
pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U postgres -d myapp_development latest.dump