Aaron RennerinAaron Renner’s Personal BlogConference Talk: Growing Applications and Taming ComplexityEarlier this month, I finally got to give my ElixirConf talk “Growing Applications and Taming Complexity”. This was my first full-length…Sep 30, 2018Sep 30, 2018
Aaron RennerinAaron Renner’s Personal BlogLightning Talk: Elixir Deployment ToolsA couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to give a lightning talk at ElixirConf 2017 about my experiences in the last few months…Sep 30, 2017Sep 30, 2017
Aaron RennerinAaron Renner’s Personal BlogLightning Talk: Mocks, Adapters and Micro-servicesLast fall, my employer generously sent me to ElixirConf 2016 in Orlando, Florida. While I was there, thought I’d put together a lightning…Feb 16, 2017Feb 16, 2017
Aaron RennerinAaron Renner’s Personal BlogNavigating Vim projects like a BossI’ll admit it, I’m a Vim addict. I started using Vim while programming Ruby on Rails and quickly got hooked on vim-rails’ project…Jan 31, 2017Jan 31, 2017
Aaron RennerinAaron Renner’s Personal BlogPhoenix acceptance tests on Semaphore CIPlataformatec just published a great introduction to testing Phoenix apps with Hound. Hound is really cool because it gives you a nice API…Jan 22, 2016Jan 22, 2016
Aaron RennerinAaron Renner’s Personal BlogRunning PhantomJS Ghost Driver as an OS X serviceRecently, I have been experimenting with the Phoenix Framework and testing tool called Hound. Hound allows you to write integration tests…Dec 31, 2015Dec 31, 2015
Aaron RennerinAaron Renner’s Personal BlogBuilding Workflows with Sidekiq BatchesA few weeks ago, Sidekiq’s creator, Mike Perham, posted a great article about how to handle Really Complex Workflows with Batches. His…Dec 28, 20152Dec 28, 20152
Aaron RennerinAaron Renner’s Personal BlogEager-loading Polymorphic Relationships in RailsUpdate: The internal Preloader class has changed between Rails 3 and Rails 4. The code examples have been updated to reflect that.Oct 30, 2014Oct 30, 2014
Aaron RennerinAaron Renner’s Personal BlogCustomizing rails #to_partial_pathRails is very helpful when it comes to automatically rendering a partial for a given object.Oct 9, 20141Oct 9, 20141
Aaron RennerinAaron Renner’s Personal BlogBuilding a Range that counts backwardOn Bike2020.com, we needed a select box to allow dealers to enter the model year of a bike. The select box should have upcoming model year…Sep 20, 2014Sep 20, 2014