This is a documentation on how to connect to a MSSQL database in a Rails application. We will use FreeTDS as the main toolkit to establish the connection. Motivation I came across a gig that requires me to connect to a MSSQL database to extract the data via the application that I was building in… Read More »
This is a concise glossary of the concepts, features and applications of various data structures. Motivation Due to the coronavirus outbreaks, the major lockdowns in Europe that ensued, and the stay home quarantine I have to undergo upon return to my country, I am ceasing my digital nomad life, which I have recorded in my… Read More »
This is a documentation once and for all on how to render a select tag in rails view with a disabled option that is preselected. Motivation I find myself having to refer to stackoverflow often for the solution because it just isn’t intuitive. It requires some sort hacking before it can be rendered the way… Read More »
This is a documentation of how to handle the response from a link_to remote: true API call and manipulate the DOM with minimal Javascript code. Motivation In the past, I use Javascript to add a click listener on a button element in order to make jquery.ajax() API call to my Rails server. A typical use… Read More »
This is a documentation on creating a service that collects emails. It runs on serverless technology utilizing AWS lambda and API Gateway. It is also made easy to deploy to the cloud with infrastructure as code via Terraform in the form of a plug-and-play methodology. Motivation Often, I have to make static websites that are… Read More »
This is a documentation on how to restrict text search to within specific directories per project you are working on in Sublime. You may often find it annoying that a simple text search is searching in folders that is not part of your source code. While you can easily flip the switch in the user… Read More »
This is a documentation on how to setup Bootstrap 4 in Rails 6 using Webpacker. As the framework shifts away from sprockets and the asset pipeline to embrace the dominating methodology of handling frontend affairs in the Javascript world that is webpack, we have to adapt along. The way to setup a css framework to… Read More »
This is a documentation on setting up the authentication system of a rails project in a primarily API environment. Rails is essentially a framework for bootstrapping applications on the web environment. The support for APIs is thus lacking. One aspect of it is an off the shelf authentication system that can fit both the API… Read More »
This is a documentation on how to setup the standard virtual private network (VPC) in AWS with the basic security configurations using Terraform. In general, I classify the basics as having the servers and databases in the private subnets, and having a bastion server for remote access. There is definitely much room to improve from… Read More »
This is a documentation of using datatables with the latest version of Rails (6.0 at the time of writing) that uses webpacker as the default Javascript compiler. I found some difficulty in looking for documentation of integrating this in the new Rails away from the lands of Sprocket. Hopefully this can help you and my future… Read More »