Kevin GleesoninGeek CultureRe-Seed Your Heroku Database Everyday With One-Off DynosIn my last blog, I went into how you can seed your database from an external API. This is great for grabbing information from a source…Jun 15, 20211Jun 15, 20211
Kevin GleesonSeeding a Rails backend with an external API.Seeding is an ever-important task when you’re building out a backend in any language. Since my primary backend language is Ruby, and…Jan 30, 2021Jan 30, 2021
Kevin GleesonAdding a Filter to your Sound with the Web Audio APIFilters! They’re awesome! The practical uses of filters can be seen everywhere from a nice pour over coffee from your favorite cafe to the…Jan 22, 2021Jan 22, 2021
Kevin GleesonCreating your first sound with the Web Audio APIEver since I started to code I’ve wanted to learn about the browser’s Web Audio API. My long term goal is to create a full synthesizer…Jan 16, 2021Jan 16, 2021
Kevin GleesonTaking Articles out of Ordered Lists with JavaScript (ES6)I’ve been writing a whole lot of Ruby articles recently off the effort I made on a recent take home code challenge. Though I still have a…Jan 9, 2021Jan 9, 2021
Kevin GleesonRVM (Ruby Version Manager) and You!Have you ever started a project with ‘rails new’ and not wanted to use your default version of ruby?Jan 2, 2021Jan 2, 2021
Kevin GleesonTesting API Endpoints with RSpec on RailsIn my recent article, I went over the differences between two very popular types of testing- Mocha and Jest. This time around I wanted to…Dec 26, 2020Dec 26, 2020
Kevin GleesonThe Gem Files: ‘phonelib’“If I am a guilty man, my crime is in daring to believe that there’s a ruby gem for every situation, that the truth will pass in my rspec…Dec 18, 2020Dec 18, 2020
Kevin GleesonPrimary Keys as UUIDs: A GuideWhen first getting started with programming in Rails, a new dev will learn about how classes are created implicitly with sequential ids…Dec 11, 2020Dec 11, 2020
Kevin GleesonRack-CORS and You!Are you tired of getting this error in your Rails Applications?Dec 5, 2020Dec 5, 2020
