A personal blog on all things of interest.

Written by Dennis O'Keeffe

Currently writing about: AWS, Ruby, Rails, React.js, Node.js, TypeScript.

Annotated Rails Models

• ruby
• ruby-on-rails

Help understand your Rails models easier with the help of the annotate models gem.

3 min read

Local ActiveStorage Development With Rails 7

• ruby
• ruby-on-rails

Set up ActiveStorage on your local developer environment with Rails 7.

4 min read

Mocks With Minitest

• ruby

A short overview on how you can mock both class methods and instance methods when dealing with Minitest.

4 min read

Pry Debugger Tips

• ruby

Some basic tips on getting more value from the Pry debugger.

6 min read

Ruby SmarterCSV Gem

• ruby

A quick look at using the SmarterCSV gem.

2 min read

Processing Local YAML Files With Sidekiq

• ruby
• ruby-on-rails

See how you can use Sidekiq jobs to read and process a local YAML template for populating the database.

5 min read

Uploading Files In ActiveAdmin

• ruby
• ruby-on-rails

See how to upload files to ActiveAdmin using this example that uploads a CSV file and populates data to the database.

5 min read

Automating Ruby Gem Package Releases With Github Actions

• ruby

In the final part of the Ruby Gem series, we will be automating the deployment of our recently created gem using GitHub Actions.

6 min read

Creating Your Own Ruby Gem

• ruby

In this post we will take our basic code from the previous exercises and package it up as a Ruby gem to install in other projects.

2 min read

Deploying Your Gem To RubyGems

• ruby

In part two of the Ruby gem series, we will take the gem we created in the previous part and deploy it to RubyGems.

3 min read

MiniTest With GitHub Actions

• ruby
• github-actions

In this short overview, see how MiniTest can be incorporated into your GitHub Actions workflows.

4 min read

RSpec With GitHub Actions

• ruby

In this short overview, see how RSpec can be incorporated into your GitHub Actions workflows.

3 min read