Case insensitive emails and usernames with Postgres
TLDR: Use case insensitive text (citext) in Postgres, and don’t worry about email/usernames in application code.
Easy Session Testing in Phoenix and Plug
Many real world Phoenix applications use JWTs to handle authentication, but there are situations that still require being able to test session. This has trad...
Simple Setup of PostGIS Columns with Phoenix Generators
How to use Phoenix generators with PostGIS column types, with minimal changes to get tests, changesets, and schema working.
Force git to treat Keynote files as binary
I was recently putting together a repo for presentations I’ve given, and I kept running into an annoying issue. Git would treat my Keynote files as a directo...
Smoothly upgrade did_you_mean gem for Ruby 2.3
A lot of Rails apps are using the gem did_you_mean to help during development. Most of these apps are probably going to run into an issue when upgrading to R...
Getting Ghost onto Github Pages
Ghost seems great. Github Pages seem great. Getting those two together seems so incredibly simple. Oh but guess what, Buster isn’t maintained anymore and it ...