Rails Unit Measurement Persistence
By Josh on March 9, 2014
I’ve worked on a few apps in the past that had some cumbersome constraints in regards to the units of measurement. Models needed to store heat transfer or fluid dynamics properties in either english or SI units. This is can be a bit of a pain, so I...
Unitwise: Ruby Unit Measurement Math and Conversion
By Josh on August 13, 2013
So, way back in Mechanical Engineering school, I learned that a very effective way to check my answers was to make sure the units worked out. For an example, consider a basic physics problem:
The average mass of an adult American male is 86 kilograms...
Rails' ActiveSupport try
By Josh on April 26, 2013
ActiveSupport has a few great Ruby extensions that I just love. One of my favorites is try.
.try()
Try is a sneaky method for handling NoMethodErrors on NilClass. If you ever get stuck writing code like this:
name = user.name unless user.nil?
Consider...
Rails Flash Messages with Twitter Bootstrap
By Josh on March 2, 2013
When building new Rails projects, I often use Bootstrap because it lets me focus more on the business logic, rather than design. Almost everytime I start one of these projects, I forget how I did flash messages the last time, and have to look at a...
Static Site Creation with Middleman
By Josh on February 10, 2013
I’ve put off building my personal website for a while. I’m a Rails developer, so it would be fairly straight forward to build a blogging application and host it somewhere. But, that seemed like a lot of overhead – content management system, database...