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
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
