Compiling Frontend Assets with RSpec and Rails 7Rails 7 ships with a lot of really great improvements to the frontend the biggest of which is removing webpacker in favor of a more generic approach to allow developers to use whatever they'd like to use to compile their assets like esbuild or import...May 20, 2022·4 min read
Keep your store fresh with an API-based CMSSolidusConf 2017 I am very proud to say that I was a chosen speaker at this year's SolidusConf. Solidus is an open-source eCommerce platform written in Rails. We use it at DeseretBook.com and contribute actively to the project. Below is a transcript...Jul 14, 2017·12 min read
Teamwork Doesn’t Have to SuckNote: This is a repost from my Medium account, https://medium.com/@ericsaupe/teamwork-doesnt-have-to-suck-741fe1a9ec61 Let’s face it, teamwork can suck. A new project comes up, the team gets together and inevitably a small portion of the team does th...Jan 5, 2017·6 min read
Getting Started with ProgrammingA friend of mine called me up recently to ask me how to get started with programming. I've gotten these requests more and more as the demand for programmers rises. I'm going to compile a list of resources to help anyone get started with what I feel a...Jul 27, 2015·4 min read
What's Coming in Rails 5Rails 5 As has become tradition, a new full version release of Rails is coming just two years after the release of Rails 4. This new version progresses the platform by bumping the underlying minimum Ruby version and adds a slew of neat features to ke...Jul 22, 2015·3 min read
How to Watch Streams in VLC PlayerVLC Player has a neat feature that allows you to watch high quality streams. Here is a small list of how to watch them. Download VLC Player (if you don't already have it) Open Network Stream (Ctrl + N on Windows) Copy and paste the link...Nov 2, 2014·1 min read
Rails Multipart Layouts and Yielding SectionsOne of the great strengths of Rails is the ability to create layouts that house various views of content. You create a layout with a basic HTML structure and then simply drop in your new content based on the view you are rendering. One of the simples...Aug 14, 2014·3 min read
