Erik Minkel

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 a bit more polishing, but, you

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 development of a web application I

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 Ubuntu 14.04 Image with Nginx

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 support from a gem was out