bridgetown

Up and running with BridgetownRB and Tailwind CSS

There are a few articles highlighting how to get going with the Ruby-powered static site generator BridgetownRb. While they may have worked initially when written, for whatever reason, they throw an asset compilation error due to the webpack configuration. Below we'll install the needed

rails

Querying sqlite3 JSON columns in Rails

This post is an effort to provide the next developer searching for answers with some guidance on using sqlite with the JSON1 extension. When it comes to querying JSON columns in Ruby on Rails the internet didn't seem to have any applied examples. Here

rails 5

Rails 5.2, webpacker and vue-loader v15+

Just a quick fix for vue-loader v15+ If you're developing in Rails in 2018, you're likely using a webpack and a front end framework. This will help you get your vue-loader going from complaining about needing a special loader to compile, back to working.

stellar

Streaming payments on Stellar

While putting together an understanding of the Stellar SDK and developing a platform for smart contracts (which I'll announce later); I'll be blogging excerpts of how to interact with the

rails

Setting up Rails + webpacker on Docker Compose

In this, hopefully short post, I want to detail how I'm using docker-compose to run webpacker in a Rails 5.1+ environment. You'll need to run through the docker-compose installation procedures yourself. Docker paired with docker-compose is an easy way to get a mock

zenefits

An honest (scathing) review of Zenefits HR

It takes alot to get under my skin and for me to post such an in depth review of a service that I am utterly dissatisfied with. Zenefits Customer Here.

rails

Apartment gem, tenant databases and MySQL

Oh, the fun it is. I'm working on an application that will use the apartment gem and I've been needing to drop and recreate the database. I still prefer to work with MySQL and haven't jumped ship to the popular Postgres. MySQL doesn't seem

entrepreneurship

Aloha Lawns: Developing with SEO in mind

Disclaimer: I'm not an SEO expert, I just develop things. I'm speaking with past experience growing and ranking local service businesses. I've never understood the idea of businesses touting they pay "$$$" per month for SEO. From my experience your ranking moves up

Ruby on Rails

Aloha Lawns: Designing Contractor Onboarding

This is going to be a short and sweet update. I had some time to configure a multi-step form for contractor onboading today. It was designed with getting pertinent information from those looking to add additional work to their already existing businesses. It needs

business

Building Aloha Lawns

The concept of building a multi-faceted marketplace isn't new. However, I'd like chronicle my journey from building this from absolutely nothing. Yep, I just recently ran rails new alohalawns. The

business

Ball is rolling.

It's hard to believe it's been over a month since my last update. I've been hard at work finishing up some small furniture refinishing projects to keep my mind busy. Over the past four weeks alot of progress has been made in regards to

entrepreneurship

Adversity creates character

It's been a tough week or two since landing on one of the many beautiful islands in Hawaii. The rental market here is currently really tough to get into a place, with many rentals seeing over 40+ applicants a day, you can imagine the

entrepreneurship

The beginning of my entrepreneurship life

The dust is settling from leaving the daily cubicle grind and moving temporarily 350 miles across the state. The overall plan to be financially independent has been playing out as

Ruby on Rails

That feeling when you're about to ship a product

Ahh yeah...sit back, relax and let the customers roll in right after you hit publish. It's always good to reflect on your product. You're likely to have learned and have grown since you began building it however long ago. After I've slowed on

json

Simple Rails 4 API with jbuilder

I'm working on a web application that requires a few API endpoints for AJAX calls. I've recently discovered the jbuilder gem that is included when creating a Rails application (I had no clue of it before my search on returning structured JSON.). I wanted

business

Cards are dealt: 13 days remaining

I have 13 working days remaining at my current employer. In an effort to stick to my plan of building businesses of my own, this is just one of those necessary things that had to happen. I've been dreaming of the day that I

review

2015: Year in Review

The good 'ole review post for the past year. Looking back at what my goals were for my previous review and contemplating the future is always energizing to me. Let's take a look at that previous list of goals for 2015 and see what

AWS

Configure AWS Route53 and CloudFront with PositiveSSL

Over the past week and a half I've come to realize the power that is Amazon Web Services and I can't believe I'm behind the drivers seat of this Formula 1 car. Thinking about the infrastructure that anyone with a bit of knowledge can

passive income

Part One: Creating a niche site that generates passive income

I secured a domain about a week ago for a planned passive income website I'm going to launch and attempt to rank in Google in a relatively short amount of time through quality content creation. I've started the process of setting up the website

2014

2014: Year in Review

This past year I set out to actually take the leap and launch a business. I was pretty hard set on taking action as much as possible. It all started late in 2013 and I followed through on most everything I set out in

Ruby on Rails

Notes on Digital Oceans Ubuntu 14.04 One Click Rails Image

I've been using Digital Ocean for alot of my web applications lately, simply because I find them to be easy to get up and online fast. I don't mind the additional system administrative tasks either, I find it quite fun. When launching a One-Click

Rails 4

Twitter Bootstrap 3 in a Rails 4 Application

Over the past few days while working through a proof of concept web application. I was searching for a way to incorporate Twitter Bootstrap 3 as it will decrease my interface development time. Twitter Bootstrap 3 was released within the past few weeks so