Web Development

TIL: installed packages in Python – list, and show

If your Python project has a very short list of required packages (in requirements, pipfile, etc), it’s easy to see all packages you have. But on large projects, the dependencies can run pretty long, not to mention the dependencies for the required packages. And what about learning more about those dependencies?

How to permit nested parameters in Rails

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 an ActionController::Parameters object. You can see that by calling params.inspect and if you call .to_h on these parameters you should be good to go.