development

stackable_flash

Provides super powers to the Rails flash object. This gem is no longer maintained.

December 6, 2015 Read

subdomain-fu

Subdomain linking and routing for Rails This gem is no longer maintained. written by Michael Bleigh, maintained by myself.

December 6, 2015 Read

Introducing strict_states

Provides content_tag_for method signature to create customizable and logic-gated labels from objects. Also includes a presenter base class to allow any Ruby web framework to create logic around HTML tags. I’ll put something here soon.

November 9, 2015 Read

Introducing rspec-pending_for

Mark specs pending or skipped for specific Ruby engine (e.g. MRI or JRuby) / version combinations. Easiest to just show you: it("blah is blah") do pending_for(engine: "rbx") pending_for(engine: "ruby", versions: "2.1.5") pending_for(engine: "jruby", versions: "2.2.2", reason: "due to a bug in Ruby") pending_for(engine: "ruby", versions: "2.0.0", reason: "because I don't have the time") expect("blah").to eq "blah" end Installation Add this line to your application’s Gemfile: gem 'rspec-pending_for' And then execute:

October 22, 2015 Read

The Why and How of celluloid-io-pg-listener

LISTEN for Postgresql NOTIFY messages; Asynchronously process payloads celluloid-io-pg-listener (on github) Why? At Trumaker & Co we had a distributed data problem. Two data stores that needed to be kept synchronized, in real time, with inserts and updates allowed on both sides. There wasn’t a good solution available for that, so I did a lot of research and built celluloid-io-pg-listener to solve the problem. How? The data stores are both PostgreSQL databases living in different namespaces (i.

October 6, 2015 Read

Upgrade to El Capitan with Homebrew, Ruby, qt5, & Java

I upgraded to El Capitan, with Homebrew & Ruby, and this is how I did it flawlessly. … and Xcode and Java, etc. Prepare If you don’t already have homebrew installed, do that first, so you don’t have to deal with SIP issues. Install all Software Updates available in the Apple Menu, up to and including El Capitan. Hardware After the installs and forced reboots my 27" Thunderbolt display wouldn’t display anything.

September 30, 2015 Read

My Git Commit Hooks

I quite envy a nice commit message. The Rails project has rules about commit messages that are tops. This is a great example from a great developer I know, which got merged into core. So now on my own projects I have cribbed, tweaked, and automated a tiny bit of of that sweet, sweet commit message honey. Naming your branch Step 1 I name my branches with a prefix that is one of: “hotfix”, “bug”, “feature”, or “candy”.

September 11, 2015 Read

Fix The Nokogiri Warning

One of the most consistent warnings that has been with me through the years has been that Nokogiri was built against a version of libXML that is different than the version that is dynamically loaded. WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.6.30, but has dynamically loaded 2.9.0 I had most recently, out of frustration, and due to sundry circumstances, resorted to the --use-system-libraries flag in my project’s bundler config just to get shit done.

September 3, 2015 Read

How I Go

I am relaunching my blog! I have decided to use Hugo after much internal debate, and strong lobbying from all the sleazy corporate bag-men that are constantly trying to bribe me with buzz words . I will always Ruby and use it every day, but for my blog I gotta go. So easy, static and fast! As my first post I will document how I made this work. My Architecture Local is Mac My workhorse is my heavily modified (via cover stickers) Macbook Pro.

August 31, 2015 Read

Introducing status_tag

Provides content_tag_for method signature to create customizable and logic-gated labels from objects. Also includes a presenter base class to allow any Ruby web framework to create logic around HTML tags. I’ll put something here soon.

August 24, 2015 Read

FLOSS Ruby Projects

I have been writing RubyGems since 2008, and Rails plugins since 2005. Contributions to the community Along the way I have contributed to many projects, including rails’ active-record (PR #20921), annotate_models (PR #473), hashie (PR #313, PR #314, PR #315, PR #316, and PR #318), git-reflow (PR #155, and PR #159), memoist (PR #33), month (PR #7), neography (PR #74 and PR #104), masonry-rails (PR #14), zues-parallel_tests (PR #28), rusen (PR #5, and PR #6), gem-release (PR #37 and PR #38), gem-dependent (PR #11), RubyGems Guides (PR #211), sidekiq-unique-jobs (PR #194), keep-a-changelog (PR #224), rchardet (PR #28), clearance (PR #769), wwtd (PR #48), capistrano-ssh-doctor (PR #11), google-drive-ruby (PR #282), subroutine (PR #4), clockwork (PR #14), ruby toolbox catalog (PR #12), amazon-awis (PR #2), and appraisal (PR #128).

August 15, 2015 Read

react-rails-benchmark_renderer

A reference implementation of a custom React renderer for Rails. Adds benchmarking info to Rails logs for parity with Rails view rendering benchmarking. I’ll put something here soon.

June 21, 2015 Read