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What’s up with mimemagic breaking everything?

Posted on March 25, 2021April 14, 2021 by christine

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you are a Rails 6.1+ user, you probably have noticed something is up in the past couple days. Good morning everyone! If you have a Rails app 6.1+, you probably noticed all of your bundle installs are failing! A gem, mimemagic, had a licensing issue and needed to yank all of its old (illegal)…

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RubyConf Retrospective

Posted on November 19, 2018November 28, 2018 by christine

Reading Time: 4 minutes I made it through my first technical conference. There was a lot more socializing, networking, and partying then I every thought there would be. These were 3 loooonnng days of non-stop learning, meeting incredible people and being a part of an awesome community that I didn’t even know existed 6 months ago. Man, it is…

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The Calm Before the Conf

Posted on November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 by christine

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m attending my first RubyConf tomorrow in L.A. This really is my first technical conference that I have ever attended. It is awesome that my employee is putting the time and money into growing me, and I really hope that I can use this as a learning experience, as well as growing my knowledge about…

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Code Documentation – before, after, and during coding

Posted on November 1, 2018November 5, 2018 by christine

Reading Time: 4 minutes Sometimes you just need to started on some design for work on a larger ticket or new feature, you want to get your thoughts down and maybe start plotting out a code flow or some potential classes but what app do you reach for? So much of the time I reach for Google Docs, for…

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Introduction to OpenStruct

Posted on September 7, 2018 by christine

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week I had a task to start working with some CSV data pulled in from the database.  There was already existing code working with the data, so I needed to make sure whatever changes were applied, that they were backwards compatible.  The data was an csv representation of an array.  The current code was…

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Exploring Ruby IDE Options

Posted on July 6, 2018 by christine

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have been working in Ruby and Rails a couple weeks now, but I don’t know if I have been entirely happy with any of the editors/IDE that I have worked with.  Coming from a Java background I used Eclipse/Spring Tool Suite for all my development work.  I knew the short cuts, how to browse…

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Update on Ruby and Rails learning experience

Posted on June 28, 2018 by christine

Reading Time: 2 minutes Even though I may not be writing about it, I am continuing my deep-dive into the word of Ruby.  At work I am mostly focused on Rails.  My app is Rails, and the tickets I am working on are Rails (with some haml and scss thrown in, yay for learning some front-end development!).   Currently I…

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The problem with starting

Posted on June 6, 2018 by christine

Reading Time: < 1 minute Sometimes there is just so much information and resources that making the first step takes a long time to decide, just because you don’t where to start.  There are so, so, so many free amazing resources for learning ruby that I keep on getting distracted jumping from one to the other.  Today did not feel…

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Ruby Koans – Day 1 Progress

Posted on June 5, 2018June 6, 2018 by christine

Reading Time: < 1 minute Slow start at first, but I think I am picking up speed.  equals and == sucks, they mean the exact opposite that they do in Java.  Ruby, == is equivalence (.equals in Java), and use .equal? to check if the objects are the same (== in Java).  That’ll probably hang me up for a while. …

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Ruby Koans – Is this the path to Ruby enlightenment

Posted on June 5, 2018June 6, 2018 by christine

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ok going forward I am trying out iTerm for my terminal and Visual Studio Code for my editor. Don’t know if these are best practices or anything, but when I was trying to pull down code from GitHub in just the default MacOS Terminal, it felt clunky.  So I am running through the Ruby Koans…

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