My Experience Building A Rails App As A Dotnet Developer #

I use to write a lot of rails applications when I was newer as a developer. Fast forward almost a decade later with professional experience, I thought I would look into rails again. I’ve slightly followed the progression of rails over the years and agree with some points of DDH’s. Main about JavaScript and how it’s become overly complex for web apps. Although, I personally love static type languages. I know shocker - coming from a dotnet developer.

Connecting your Rails application to a database #

Rails default setup uses sqlite which is a great way to get starting building applications, but at some point we will need to connect to a real database. Whether you need functionality that is specific to a certain database, or you want to simulate your production environment more. Connecting to a database is pretty easy with Rails. The first thing you will need is a database installed on your computer. For my apps I primarily use Postgres and pgAdmin as my GUI.

Handling CORS with Gorilla Mux #

In an earlier post I talked about create an API with golang using a few packages. One of the main ones packages many people use is mux for routes. This makes it easier handles routes within our application. Now we need setup our application to allow certain sites to talk with our api. Luckily Gorilla has another package that integrates seamlessly with Mux.

Golang First API #

I have been following Golang for a little bit. It seemed interesting to me for a few reasons. One major one was the speed of it. Another was it’s syntax is similar to python. I am no python developer, but I have made a few side project with it. SO I decided to update and an aging Rails application. It’s just a simple crud application that displays martial arts rings at tournaments. While I could write the entire website with Go I opted in to make an api. The reason is I want to make a React site and mobile apps made with React Native. It’s a pretty simple rest API that needed to connect to a database. I used a few packages to make development practical

Rails development on Windows #

Developing Rails applications on windows has always been a pain. It’s simple enough to install ruby and the need gems to get a basic Rails application started, but in time developers will run into problems. A lot of gem work fine in a windows environment, but some do not compile down correctly and this is the main issue with developing on Windows. For this reason many people who need to work on Rails applications are running their development environment on OSX or Linux, including me. With Windows WSL I decided to see if I can get a working, acceptable development environment on a Windows computer. After some trial and error (plus some help from google) it’s pretty good.

Hello, World! #

My name is Andrew Rady and I am currently a front end developer at Ritter Insurance Marketing working with Vue. I have been writing some blog post on our company blog at rimdev.io, but I wanted to start a personal one. On rimdev.io most of my articles are around vue since that is what I work on mostly, but I want to be able to share some of my experiences from side projects. I am person who doesn’t write a lot so a personal goal of 2019 is to get better, and the best way to improve on something is to do it.