Vue.js and Rails - a 2017 update

I wrote a post about Vue.js and Rails which is a bit outdated now, so I thought it would be about to time to post an update. I would like to talk about two different approaches to take when starting a new project with the intention of using Vue.js

Hidden Screenshots in Rails System Test Output

Uses for Action Cable beyond the Chat App

I've been having boat loads of fun finding uses for ActionCable beyond the chat app. I reinvented two player pong a while back and have recently been search for solutions of outputting terminal commands to...

Traversing Trees for Rubyists

Learning to Traverse a Tree

For those of you who live in Colorado like I do, I'm sure that you most certainly understand one meaning of a 'Tree', but I would like to show you another meaning in the world of computer science and software development...

Write One Query

Sometimes is easier to write some Ruby to tackle a problem, but may result in a performance hit. For example, looping through a set of ActiveRecord objects and doing some processing on each object, or even performing an SQL query on every iteration...

Vue.js vs React.js

I recently published two posts, one was a tutorial for using Vue.js and Rails, and the other about using React.js and Rails. Evan You has published a good post that compares the higher level concepts of various JavaScript frameworks including React...

React.js and Rails

Getting up and running with React.js and Rails

I'm sure there are arleady plenty of tutorials out there on using React with Rails, but I'm posting this tutorial in response to my last blog post about using Vue.js and Rails. I'm going to follow the...

Vue.js and Rails

Getting up and running with Vue.js and Rails

Vue.js has been widely adopted by the Laravel community, but I haven't seen much adoption in the Rails community. I have experimented with Vue.js in a couple different Rails applications and have had a...

Would you hire a Convict?

A proposed solution to the Mass Incarceration problem

I've been hearing a lot about the mass incarceration problem in the news recently and have been doing a bit of thinking about a solution to this problem. As a software engineer, that's what I...

Informix Database with Ruby on Rails

Step-by-step guide for getting up and running with Ruby and Informix

God forbid that anyone ever needs to use an Informix database with their Ruby on Rails application. In you case you do, here's how I did it for getting up and running with Ruby and...

How to Parse an HTML Table with Nokogiri

Here's a simple way to parse an html table into a ruby hash using nokogiri

<!-- table.html -->
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Foo</th>
      <th>Bar</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>foofoo</td>
      <td>barbar</td>
   ...