Software Engineer based in New Zealand
My first foray into home automations, Zigbee and irrigation systems.
Some readers will know, but most will not, that I am a bit of a self-confessed foodie. I enjoy cooking, but especially so when others get enjoyment from it. Be it friends, family, or neighbours, and sometimes all three, I’m always up for putting something together.
Lexical works out of the box with ActionText, but it requires a little setup.
I spent today getting Facebook’s new WYSIWYG editor “Lexical” working with Rails & ActionText. The process was fairly straightforward, but I ran into some issues along the way which I wanted to document.
My experience of migrating from Paperclip to Active Storage on a production site.
I was until recently working on a Ruby on Rails project as part of my day job, which used Paperclip for attaching files within the application. With Paperclip being deprecated in May 2018, it was high time we moved to an alternative.
Building & scaling a Rails app built using Turbo/Hotwire, what did we learn?
I’ve recently been working on a new project at work which utilises Rails and Hotwire.
Learn how to setup View Components and Storybook for Ruby on Rails.
In this post, I’m going to cover the use of some popular open-source technologies, that when combined together provide an extremely powerful developer experience. This will be orientated towards Rails, but it should be possible to swap out View Components with something else for your stack.