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So you’ve decided to start a company Alright. So you’re toying around with the idea of starting a company - specifically a software company. Perhaps you’re looking for a change in your career. Maybe you recently came…
You've seen all the success of large software companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, or anything else and thought, “I should do that”. So you come up with an idea and want to get started right away. It goes…
Something dawned on me the other day - something pretty amazing. So I've been a Software Engineer, Developer - whatever you want to call it, a good chunk of my life. My dad introduced me to coding back in the early 90s,…
So today, I was implementing a Stripe Webhook for a Firebase application. The webhook would be implemented as a cloud function and I wanted to implement the code to verify that the request was securely coming from the…
Ever try setting up Ruby on Rails to use Namecheap's private e-mail to no avail. Me too. Finally figured out some settings that made things work. First off, for your smtp settings: config.action_mailer.delivery_method =…
After about 5 years of doing Ruby on Rails development, there is one aspect that for the longest time never seemed to sit well with me: TDD. It wasn't that I didn't understand the benefits, and it wasn't that I didn't…
Hey everyone, this will be a quick one. I'm finally coding a Swift iOS app to interface with my Rails app and I'm now at the point where I'm starting to implement PUT or PATCH requests for my record updates. For my…
So I've been programming Ruby on Rails for about 9 years now and I'm still learning new things everyday. This is one that definitely caused us some issues. Setup So here's the setup. We have a User model class User <…
This is going to be a quick post and applies to a lot of different languages, but it's something we've been doing in our Rails projects a decent amount. If you're ever working on a larger codebase and you decide you…