Heroku offer's a pretty nifty scheduler add-on for running jobs on your app at scheduled time intervals, much like cron in a traditional server environment.... Read More
Ruby
Ruby, Rbenv, RVM, Ruby on Rails, Gems
I wanted to present three different ways to get data from a Model and arrange it in a descending order. Below are a few examples... Read More
Today I was asked to convert an XML file full of e-mail addresses into JSON. The first file is titled email_builder.rb. The second... Read More
When dealing with relational databases –such as Postgresql, MySQL or AWS RDS– it helps to understand how tables interact with one another. This cheatsheet is... Read More
I feel like this is the first thing Heroku should tell you about after installing Toolbelt. For the longest time, I thought the only way... Read More
Rails Fragment caching on a Heroku dyno.... Read More
Here's a process I've found for upgrading your database on Heroku. There are many more commands and I highly suggest reviewing the Heroku Documentation. First,... Read More
Today I needed my Rails app to look at it's own production URL and capture the HOST information. After spending an hour looking for an... Read More
When I'm building a new app, I prefer to populate my site with fake data so that I can see how the app actually starts... Read More
There are a lot of different ways to complete a loop. Here's a list of the most popular ones. Loop Loop in increments of 2... Read More
With Rails 5, the deployment process to Heroku has gotten even easier. Here are the steps to publishing a new Heroku app without using a... Read More
I'm currently working on a sentiment analysis problem that requires me to collect big data from Twitter and process it for later. As a first... Read More