Lately, I've been hitting an error when trying to install the pg gem on my Intel MacBook. The suggestions are relatively useful. It states the following: Unable to find PostgreSQL client library. Please install libpq or postgresql client package like so: brew install libpq or try again with:
Cucumber Expressions Cucumber Expressions allow you to create grammatically correct sentences when creating stories Link Sample Files * Cucumber Rake file * Cucumber YML file
Summary GitHub Manual Common Scenarios Drop down lists with associated models The implementation of dropdown lists in Simple Form leverages the collection feature. Here are the changes that I made in my related model, controller and view Model class Stuff < ApplicationRecord belongs_to :user, required: false has_one :category
Cancancan is a great gem to do simple permissions for your app. It's my go-to gem, especially when developing proof of concept products. The Basics There are two main things that you have to set up in order to get Cancancan to work Setup abilities file The first
Tips and Tricks Single line if statement condition ? if_true : if_false Models Class Methods class SomeModel < ApplicationRecord def self.my_method(param_1) return 'my value' end end Default value for methods def my_method(param_1 = 'some value') return "Value of the
Ruby on Rails is my go-to framework when I'm creating quick prototype applications. It allows me to quickly crank out concepts and be able to validate my ideas quickly. Core * Tips and Tricks * Ruby Language * ActiveRecord * Routing Gems Development * Cucumber * Capybara Functionality * Simple Form * Pagy * SearchKick * Cancancan
I typically jump around my ChromeOS and MacOS machines on a daily basis while I code. Today, I got an error which I've never seen before and it looked like this: make: *** [Release/obj.target/binding/src/binding.o] Error 1 gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack
Cucumber is one of my favourite testing tools and one of the nicer features that it has is the ability to re-run failed tests. To do so, you can run the following command: cucumber -f rerun -o rerun.txt The command will run all of the tests and output all
The standard instruction for installing the postgres gem on MacOS is to install the entire Postgres app by entering brew install postgres I wanted to do a leaner install and after digging through some StackOverflow articles, I found that you could just install the Postgres libraries by entering brew install
Capybara helps you test web applications by simulating how a real user would interact with your app. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and comes with Rack::Test and Selenium support built in. WebKit is supported through an external gem. Selecting from a drop down find('
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Ruby is my favourite programming language for developing web apps. It's incredibly flexible and easy to learn. The gem ecosystem is rich and enables many capabilities with very minimal effort.
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I decided to put a 'real' URL to my side project which meant that I put it behind Cloudflare and turned on SSL for both CloudFlare and Heroku. However, I was running into an issue where the first symptom was that I was unable to log in. After