Ruby on Rails

Testing your Rails APIs with Airborne.

It took me a long long time to finally decided to write tests. I’ll probably write about the thought process and why I think you should write tests later.

If you use Rails to build REST APIs, and you want the number of times the FE…

Building: Tweet at Senate.

I recently built the Tweet-at-Senate application, a simple web app that lets users tweet once every day to the Nigerian senate, imploring them to slash their salaries. All it requires from the user is Twitter authentication, after which it posts the tweet randomly. You can read…

“Neatly” dealing with JSON.parse-d Hashes in Ruby

So you use some REST API that responds with JSON with a ton of nested objects and arrays, an example of this is the Google Maps Direction API.

Tiny jsonb gotcha in Rails

If you’re using Postgres 9.4+ in your Rails application, you get to create columns in the jsonb type, which lets you store non-relational data.

To do this, you add the column in a migration as usual, like so:

add_column :users…