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Carbon Copy Testing
Posted on:December 20, 2021It took me 2 years of rumination and good-ol’ procrastination to finally get my website back up on its feet. I think I might have more to say…
Preprocessing in Searchkick
Posted on:February 4, 2016Runder is a rudimentary clone of CodePen that I wrote to see how much I could accomplish in a span of 24 hours. It leverages on Google Caja’s…
How Ruby Objects Are Implemented
Posted on:January 29, 2016Link. When you get to this stage, most of the tutorials and online resources available to you are much less useful because they assume you’re…
How Closures Actually Work
Posted on:January 25, 2016When studying I find that writing notes help me to process that information better, even if I never go back to those notes. Since I’m such a…
Custom File Processing Forms in Active Admin
Posted on:January 18, 2016In this post, I want to talk about some of the technical details behind this site and the workflow that I have for writing. This site is built…
How Ruby Classes Are Implemented
Posted on:January 10, 2016I needed to add a form to Active Admin so that a client could upload tsv files, which would be parsed and the data added to the database.…
Rogger 0.1.2 Released
Posted on:January 7, 2016I was handed an EC2 instance running 12. 10 (Quantal Quetzal), which had reached EOL. Due to some reasons, upgrading wasn’t an option. When I…
Invalid Gemspec
Posted on:January 6, 2016(This post was originally posted on Cubicle Rebel’s engineering blog. Check it out! )Our clients rely on us to provide rock-solid long-term…
Adding MiniMagick support to carrierwave-video-thumbnailer
Posted on:December 5, 2015Aurora’s Github repoTLDR: I learned Erlang and wrote a JSON API server called Aurora for a school project. IntroductionI recently concluded a…
OpenSSL woes with Ruby 2.2.3 and rvm
Posted on:November 30, 2015Single table inheritance (STI) in Rails allows you to store Ruby subclasses in the same database table. Let’s get started with a brand-new…
Rails Boot Sequence (Part 1)
Posted on:July 17, 2015The first in a series of Nginx posts. The information here is heavily inspired from my reading of Clément Nedelcu’s excellent book Nginx HTTP…
Notes on "Rebuilding a Web Server"
Posted on:July 16, 2015The second in a series of Nginx posts. Nginx runs two different types of processes: the master process and worker processes. Master ProcessThis…
Single Table Inheritance in Rails
Posted on:June 27, 2015The third post in the Nginx series. Nginx configuration consists essentially of key-value pairs called directives, which can be organised and…