A few months ago I got a new computer and I have been very intentional about deciding what I install on it. From past experience I know that computers that are used as a development environment tend to get messy in no time since one might install all kinds of libraries, frameworks, dependencies, you name … Continue reading Developing inside a Docker container
The context Rails 5 introduced a big change in how it handles ActionController::Parameters (the parameters that you get on your Controllers): before Rails 5, if you called your params you would get a hash back and after Rails 5, you get a ActionController::Parameters object. You can see that by calling params.inspect and if you call … Continue reading How to permit nested parameters in Rails
Se você já programa há algum tempo e não sabe JavaScript ou se está pensando em aprender a programar e não sabe por onde começar, aqui está a minha lista de motivos porque eu acho que você deveria aprender JavaScript (ou simplesmente "JS" no resto desse post): JS é o que faz a internet ser … Continue reading 5 razões pra começar a aprender JavaScript
A few years back when I got serious about learning to program to become a software developer, I remember hearing about version control and getting really confused about git and GitHub (one can add GitLab to this list also!). Are they the same thing? Eventually I figured it out but this past week in a … Continue reading Git, GitHub and GitLab. Are they all the same thing?
When I first heard about git bisect I thought it sounded scary and complicated, so I never looked for an opportunity to learn more about it and use it. That's until last week when I ran into a bug in our master branch. I knew that the bug was not there two days before so … Continue reading Find the commit that introduced a bug in your code: how to use git bisect in 7 steps
I don't write much about Rails here but whoa, two posts in a row! Well, it turns out that I thought I should record another lesson I learned while upgrading Rails: how to do it, meaning, what are the practical steps one should take to upgrade Rails? During my research at work I came across … Continue reading How to upgrade Rails
I was recently tasked with upgrading our Ruby on Rails application at work: my goal was to move two major versions up, with a middle step on a minor version (and a server OS upgrade that was not even planned!). This was an incredible experience and I learned a lot from it. Here are some … Continue reading 6 Lessons learned from upgrading a Rails app
Book cover of "Get Programming with Go", by Nathan Youngman and Roger Peppe Learning Go (a.k.a as Golang) was one of my personal goals for 2019 and I chose the book "Get Programming with Go", by Nathan Youngman and Roger Peppe as my learning resource. Even though there are several other resources out there, I … Continue reading Book review: Get Programming with Go
You want to see line 3842 of file called my_super_long_file.py and you can only access that file using vim. You open the file and to your dismay, by default, vim doesn't display line numbers. Here are your options: Arrow down and hope you find that line before retirementDisplay the line numbers by hitting : and … Continue reading Go to line number in a file using vim
When I need to create a new custom Docker image, I usually start with a base image (alpine, debian, python, etc, depending on the project), running it in the interactive mode and install the tools and dependencies I will need. Once I get my container the way I want, I create a Dockerfile with all … Continue reading TIL: docker commit
