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Easy Postgres backups

How to use Kamal to backup and restore your Postgres database

Deploy an app with SQLite, ActiveStorage and Kamal

SQLite as a single or small development team database for Ruby on Rails projects ended out the year as all the rage. For in-depth action in this area follow Stephen Margheim, he's doing a TON of work for the Ruby on Rails community in this realm. This article is meant

Deploy your Rails 7 app with Kamal and CI/CD

We'll run through an example utilizing the Kamal gem to deploy our Ruby on Rails application to a server with BitBucket Pipelines.

Using Kamal to host multiple Apps on a single server

Use the Kamal deployment tool to host multiple Applications on a single server instance

Run your own docker registry

I had a need arise to run a configurable instance of the docker registry to host images built for the Kamal deployment tool. In this post, I'll describe the setup of running your own instance of the docker registry. We'll utilize docker compose for this setup, as well as Traefik

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 Ruby gems and JavaScript packages necessary

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 is some of my notes on

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. In your project open up /app/

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 Stellar network through the JavaScript SDK as I discover more. Currently, I'm working through a process of initializing an account

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 production environment spun up really quickly.

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 to have as much support for

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 organically as your site becomes more set in

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 a bit more polishing, but, you

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 idea is simple, these marketplaces exist already. This isn't complete rocket science. There are just alot of use-cases and components.