• Mar 4, 2022

    See Rails Routes In The Browser

    section Look at the routes Other ways to view the routes Look at the routes There’s a really handy shortcut to looking at the routes available when developing a Rails app. When i’ve run rails s (which “spins up” the local server), I can see the application in the browser...
  • Dec 17, 2021

    Visualize HTTP requests through a Rails App

    introduction As a baby dev, understanding “where” I am in a problem is vital to helping me troubleshoot. Being able to visualize the HTTP request/response cycle in a novel way is often essential to getting a grasp on the nature of a bug. The rest of this article will be...
  • Dec 10, 2021

    Learning about Jekyll Plug-ins

    Intro A blog built with Jekyll is pretty robust and complete “out of the box”. However, sometimes additional functionality would be nice. Thankfully, there are plugins. To install a plugin there are three possible options: the default method for installing plugins in the Gemfile adding plugins without a Gemfile the...