Erik Minkel

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. In your project open up /app/

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