Ruby, Rails and life

Using Braintree hosted fields with Ruby on Rails

While it is possible to create your own credit card process in a Ruby on Rails app, due to the PCI compliance rules, it is just safer to use something like Stripe or Braintree. …

What Operation Code means to me.

A few months back I was on Twitter looking for a place to volunteer to mentor people learning Ruby on Rails. I had not heard of Operation Code until somebody suggested it to me. …

Blogging Mondays Premier

Welcome the the very first Operation Code Blogging Mondays event for September 2017. …

Not all recruiters are evil

One of the most common topics I see, is about recruiters. Most are complaints about bad ones, and some are compliments of good ones. …

Q and A with me

I have recently been searching for a new developer job, and in the process, I have had a few questionnaire’s to fill out. So I thought that I would share them as a way to get to know me better. …

Why software startups are like the Marine Corps ….

“Improvise, Adapt, Overcome” is the unofficial motto of the Marine Corps and should be the motto for a software startup if they are to be successful. …

Rails - complex rake task

I had to write a pretty complex rake task this evening.  I made some seriously big changes to my client app and need to run some processes to update some big changes in the database. …

Offshore, nearshore, come ashore - Bringing Rails Team in house

I just made my first year where I work and it has been crazy fun and challenging. …

Mongodump cron job for nightly backup

I recently looked for a way to automatically backup Mongodb database nightly.  There are some nice bash scripts out there but I wanted to just do it in a cron job.  After some struggling with taring the huge db directory I came up with this: 0 0 * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /my_project_path && mongodump --host 0.0.0.0 -d mydb --username mayusername --password mypassword --out /var/dbbackups/backup_$(date +\%Y\%m\%d) && cd /var/dbbackups && tar -zcf backup_$(date +\%Y\%m\%d).tar.gz backup_$(date +\%Y\%m\%d)/mydb The first part is the cron for midnight daily: 0 0 * * * Then it cd's into the rails project directory and gets ready to run bash: /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /my_project_path Then mongodump adding the date on the dump directory: mongodump --host 0.0.0.0 -d mydb --username mayusername --password mypassword --out /var/dbbackups/backup_$(date +\%Y\%m\%d) And finally, cd into that directory and tar (compress) the directory: cd /var/dbbackups && tar -zcf backup_$(date +\%Y\%m\%d).tar.gz backup_$(date +\%Y\%m\%d)/mydb Notice that I added the database name on the directory to tar.  Mongodump will create the backup_20150429/mydb directory with all of the .bson files in it. …

Improving my developer workflow

From time to time, I look around the web to see what there are for new tools or add-ons to improve my workflow as a developer.  Last night I found two really awesome things!!!! I am a big fan of HAML, SASS and trying to get on the CoffeeScript bandwagon ...  That being said, I work on legacy applications and find myself converting HTML to HAML and CSS to SASS.  There are some great free sites out there they will do these conversions.  Then I found Rails Magic Clipboard package for Sublime Text.  From their site:

Sublime text plugin to convert CSS, HTML or JavaScript in the clipboard to SASS, CoffeeScript or HAML on your screen