You might be asking, why would you need to look for changed attributes? Is that possible in Ruby on Rails? On more than one occasion I’ve had a requirement that reads like the next sentence. We need x to happen, but only when a particular attribute on model y changes. The requirement means you need to watch model y and […]
Imposter Syndrome: Hi, I’m Jason
Hi, my name is Jason, and I have imposter syndrome. What is imposter syndrome? In its simplest form, imposter syndrome is the feeling that you’re a fraud. According to Wikipedia, the term came into existence in 1978 by clinical psychologists Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes. Despite external evidence of their competence, those exhibiting the […]
Learning Ruby – the Simplicity and Joy
I wish I would have found programming sooner. Specifically, I wish I would have found Ruby earlier in life. Learning Ruby changed my life. Discovering Ruby Server-side programming was something I thought I wouldn’t be able to do. It considered it only for the “smart people.” Eventually, I mustered up the courage to give it […]
Hanami Models and Making it All Work – Learn Hanami #4
If you’ve made it this far, you should know about routes, controllers, and views in Hanami. In the last Learn Hanami lesson, we’ll be looking at Hanami models. If you have a Rails (or MVC) background, you’re likely familiar with models. Models represent data your application will use. However, Hanami may utilize models differently than you’re […]
Actions (Controllers & Views) – Learn Hanami #3
At this point, you should have a route setup leading to posts#index. If you’ll remember, posts is the URI and index is an action. You might be wondering what actions are. If you come from a typical MVC background, you might think an action is just a controller. I want you to clean any pre-conceived idea […]