This will hopefully help folks that use zsh and Oh My Zsh like myself. After getting the prompt when opening iTerm2, or whatever terminal program you're using, you may see this: [Oh My Zsh] Would you like to update? [Y/n]: Which of course you type "Y", hit enter and hop... read more

There's a ton of great resources out in the world to help you learn Ruby on Rails but sometimes, it just makes sense to pay for a course or subscription that will truly elevate your skills and understanding of not just the framework but of the entire web app experience. T... read more

If you're using the Postgres plugin with your Dokku server, such as on Digital Ocean, you may find yourself from time to time needing to export and import data. Just recently, I went through an issue where I needed to spin up a completely new server to fix another issue a... read more

As I was building out functionality of Railscoder and other projects I was working on, I realized that without checking each article every day, I would have no idea if someone commented, but more importantly, had a question about something that I could answer. So I needed... read more

One of the few gems out there that make it easy for pagination is will_paginate. With the gem will_paginate, it's super easy to do, too. While there are a few other options for pagination (which will be covered soon), this is one of the easiest to get up and running. Fir... read more

After going through documentation and trying out several options to set up mailing services on Rails apps, I settled on Mailgun. While I don't need to send a ton of email, at least yet, the pricing wasn't my first priority provided the lowest tier was either free or nomin... read more

I figured I would make a quick tutorial on this as I searched high and low for days to find a solution. If you're like me, you love the Trix (Action Text) editor for Rails. It's convenient, clean looking, and most importantly functional. It seems to have everything you ne... read more

I have seen a number of different ways to do this with varying means of difficulty after looking at several other tutorials online, but this is the easiest way I could get Google Analytics working in a Rails 6 app using Turbolinks. I did borrow some of the information fro... read more