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June 15, 2024
TL,DR; We can impact your team or project in a short amount of time. When we work with folks we tend to build trust quickly. Often, that leads to more work in the future. We want to make it easier for people to get a foot in the door of working with us by clearly defining what
June 11, 2024
Last time I talked about soft deletion, I laid out a sticky situation I got myself into. That was mostly background and context to get to this point, where I can share a solution. Away we go! All these problems got me entirely fed up with this database-view way of handling soft deletion, and I
June 4, 2024
Hello RailsConf! On Monday, May 6th, four members of the Flagrant team climbed in cars and hopped on planes to make their way to RailsConf in Detroit. From Madison, where SaVance, Valenzia, and Jim began their trip, Detroit is around a 7-hour drive including stops for food and bio breaks.
April 29, 2024
A couple of cool science/technology news items just dropped: There’s going to be a new time zone for the moon (and non-Earth places, generally) The Earth was going to need an unprecedented negative leap second, but we’re not (yet) Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) Remember that list
March 19, 2024
I was working on an import process, basically slurping in a bunch of data and shoving it into a database. Well, a little more nicely than just “shoving”. There’s massaging the data a bit from the input format, validating it, and then going through the normal creation flow (at least the
March 7, 2024
At some point everyone bumps into the age old problem of unintentional multiple form submissions usually caused by repeated pressing of submit buttons. Fortunately, if you are using Turbo you get the automatic disabling of buttons for free right out of the box. While Turbo is great at
February 6, 2024
To start, what is soft deletion? It’s just adding some data to a database record (like a flag or a timestamp) to mark something as “deleted”, so it remains in the database but is no longer shown. There are a few reasons to do this, but the big one is making the record easy to restore (just remove
January 25, 2024
Turbo has a knack for adding cool, little-but-useful features, resulting in a smoother experience for the user and developer alike. One lesser known capability within Turbo is the ability to easily customize the confirm process for a button. Although documented briefly in the Turbo Handbook, in
December 12, 2023
One cool feature that comes with Turbo are Eager Loaded Frames. By simply adding a src attributes to your turbo frame Turbo will make an asynchronous request to the given url when the turbo frame is rendered on the page. This simple feature while powerful in itself can be the jumping off point
December 6, 2023
It’s Wednesday. You’ve passed your Tuesday code-freeze because the project you’ve been working on for 6 months is about to be introduced for the first time at an industry event to hundreds of new users. The sales team is going to be talking individually with dozens of potential clients one-on-one
November 30, 2023
I switch between projects all day. The projects I am switching between use different node versions. Here is an example of what it looks like when I switch projects. cjb/really_good_code/older_project $ cd ../shiny_new_project cjb/really_good_code/shiny_new_project $ bin/dev [ERROR]
October 26, 2023
Problem: Our current implementation relies on session storage to manage the open “tabs” a user has, and this is leading to improper functioning of the link_to anchor. To provide some context, we offer three tab options that users can click on to display distinct sets of information. Here is
October 11, 2023
Psst… You can use FactoryBot to test Plain ole Ruby Objects. So go ahead. Extract a PORO. Write a spec. Guaranteed to give you that ‘I made my bed today’ kind of feeling. # app/models/arrow_down.rb class ArrowDown # Build an arrow beginning at @from and ending at @to # from |-╮ |
August 10, 2023
ActiveRecord can be so seamless, that it can make something that’s relatively costly in the DB look cheap in terms of characters you need to type. One place where this crops up is in an N+1 Query. Set the scene Let’s say we have a common “Posts” with “Comments” structure of something. Here
July 3, 2023
Hello! My name is Valenzia Cina, and I am a Graphic Designer at Flagrant. Ever since I was a little kid, I had a drive to create. My parents would always say that as soon as I was able to hold a pencil I would draw for hours, my focus unbroken. I still find myself able to sit for long hours to
