David McCoyWhat I Read This WeekWhile I still haven’t finished Sarah Drasner’s Engineering Management for the Rest of Us, I found another book to add to my to-read list…Jan 2, 2023Jan 2, 2023
David McCoyUpdating My Nextbase 622GW with MyNextbase PlayerAfter two years of use, my Nextbase 622GW finally came in handy when I witnessed an accident. But the firmware was so out of date I couldn’Apr 23, 2022Apr 23, 2022
David McCoyRails Action Text: Associations and Eager LoadingLast August, Rails 6.0 introduced Action Text, a rich text editor that was built on top of Active Storage from Rails 5.2.Jan 5, 2020Jan 5, 2020
David McCoyHow to Fix “Error Installing mysql2” After Upgrading to OS X High SierraMake sure you still have the XCode command line tools installed.Feb 28, 2018Feb 28, 2018
David McCoyTIL: How to Have Two (or More!) Redirects in a Rails ControllerConditional redirects here we come!Feb 15, 20184Feb 15, 20184
David McCoyTIL: jQuery .focus() Not Working? Make Sure You Haven’t Clicked the DevToolsThis 60-second debugging TIL is presented by Chrome’s DevTools.Feb 8, 20183Feb 8, 20183
David McCoyTIL How To Compile Webpack Before Running Rspec TestsRspec doesn’t support Webpack out of the box.Feb 2, 20181Feb 2, 20181
David McCoyHow to Build HTML Inputs to Submit an Array of Hashes with a Rails Form Tag and Strong ParametersTranslating Rails’ Strong Parameters into HTML’s <input> parameter naming syntax.Jan 26, 201810Jan 26, 201810
David McCoyDeploying a Simple Sinatra App with Postgres to HerokuRails-like functionality without the extras.Jul 21, 20174Jul 21, 20174
David McCoyHow to Submit an HTML Form to Google Sheets…without Google FormsGet the functionality of Google Forms without having to use an actual Google Form.Jun 10, 2017106Jun 10, 2017106