Connecting Arts and Technology with Marlena Compton Published: May 2nd, 2021 I was one of the hosts lucky enough to welcome the brilliant and insightful Marlena Compton to the Greater than Code podcast episode 236. Marlena’s superpower is an bringing the arts to tech. Marlena discussed the application of sketching, drawing, crafting, zines, other forms of art…

Add a CSS Framework Published: Feb 16th, 2021 This is part of Joyful Rails, a list of recommendations to make developing your Rails app more productive and joyful. In this article, we are talking about adding a CSS framework. When When it comes time to make things pretty, use a good CSS framework to make…

Add an Authorization Library Published: Feb 9th, 2021 This is part of Joyful Rails, a list of recommendations to make developing your Rails app more productive and joyful. In this article, we are talking about adding an authorization library. When After you add authentication to your application, you will probably start writing code that does…

Add an Authorization Library Published: Feb 9th, 2021 This is part of Joyful Rails, a list of recommendations to make developing your Rails app more productive and joyful. In this article, we are talking about adding an authorization library. When After you add authentication to your application, you will probably start writing code that does…

Add Authentication Published: Feb 2nd, 2021 This is part of Joyful Rails, a list of recommendations to make developing your Rails app more productive and joyful. In this article, we are talking about adding authentication. When Authentication is the process of identifying who your user is. You should add it as soon as your app needs to know who its users are. How Use Devise. Gotchas Authentication is separate from authorization. We’ll talk about authorization in a separate article.

Update the Readme Published: Jan 26th, 2021 This is part of Joyful Rails, a list of recommendations to make developing your Rails app more productive and joyful. In this article, we are talking about updating the readme file. When Every time there is some new piece of information that every developer will need, or…

Set Up a Production Environment Published: Jan 5th, 2021 This is part of Joyful Rails, a list of recommendations to make developing your Rails app more productive and joyful. In this article, we are talking about setting up a production environment. When In the interest of rapid user feedback and iteration, I recommend doing this as soon as possible. Why A production environment makes your app available to people who aren’t using your development machine.

Default Rake Task Published: Dec 29th, 2020 This is part of The Annotated Guide to a New Rails App, a list of recommendations to make developing your Rails app more productive and joyful. In this article, we are talking about adding to the default rake task. When I recommend adding to the default rake…

Hotwire: First Reactions Published: December 26, 2020 Hotwire is a set of libraries and conventions that does for single-page interactivity on web sites what Rails did for web applications. It provides all the benefits of client-side single-page application (SPA) frameworks with almost none of the downsides. It does that by making HTML primary…