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Aug 9, 2021

How to add RSpec testing to your Rails application.

I’d like to share how to add testing to your already built rails application in this blog, and I will do it with the examples of my application. I will cover the basics and show how to get started and then we will be writing tests for routes, models, and…

Rails

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How to add RSpec testing to your Rails application.
How to add RSpec testing to your Rails application.
Rails

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Jul 23, 2021

How to render PDF docs in React with Adobe PDF Embed API (fetching URL).

Before I get to HOW I want to talk about WHY first. I was building a platform that would render PDF docs sourced out of my AWS s3 bucket and I just <Iframe>-ed it on the page which was easy to do and seems to work just fine. Well testing…

React

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React

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Jun 9, 2021

How to set up AWS s3 bucket on Rails with ActiveStorage

In this blog post, I’ll walk through the entire setup of the AWS s3 bucket for Ruby on Rails with ActiveStorage. Let’s begin with ActiveStorage configuration first and I would assume you already have rails project generated where you want to implement this functionality : First, we going to install…

Rails

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How to set up AWS s3 bucket on Rails with ActiveStorage
How to set up AWS s3 bucket on Rails with ActiveStorage
Rails

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Apr 12, 2021

How to maintain sessions with React frontend and Rails backend

While I was working on my final project for Flatiron School I’ve encountered a few problems with sessions and I wanted to cover this subject in a little more depth. …

React

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How to maintain sessions with React frontend and Rails backend
How to maintain sessions with React frontend and Rails backend
React

5 min read


Mar 10, 2021

What is a Javascript Promise?

If you just started with javascript or started to play around with it then most likely you’ve seen a Promise in your developer console using fetch requests.

JavaScript

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What is a Javascript Promise?
What is a Javascript Promise?
JavaScript

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Mar 3, 2021

Introduction to HTML 5 CANVAS

Have you ever visited a website with a really awesome background animation? Click on the link to see it (you can choose different ones right at the bottom). Have you ever wondered how on earth did they do that? Well, it’s all thanks to a canvas, an HTML5 element. What…

Canvas

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Introduction to HTML 5 CANVAS
Introduction to HTML 5 CANVAS
Canvas

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Feb 2, 2021

How to Handle ‘Not Found’ in Rails

Transitioning to Rails after Sinatra was pretty smooth since they have a lot in common, MVC in particular. The Big difference I wanna say was a division of routes from controllers but besides the fact that rails is way more advanced and have over 200,000 lines of code in its…

404

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How to Handle ‘Not Found’ in Rails
How to Handle ‘Not Found’ in Rails
404

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Dec 31, 2020

Making Website With Sinatra Framework

Being a student at Flatiron Bootcamp is very exciting! In the second module, we were learning Sqlite3 to operate on databases, ActiveRecord framework that manipulates data in database using ruby language, and Sinatra framework that allows you to host a web app and add a bunch of routes to it. …

Sinatra Project

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Making Website With Sinatra Framework
Making Website With Sinatra Framework
Sinatra Project

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Dec 2, 2020

First time doing CLI ruby gem

It’s been three weeks of an amazing journey at Flatiron Bootcamp. We started with ruby and all of my previous coding experience was a month of self-paced learning javascript in Bootcamp prep class. The first impression was like “Really? It’s that straightforward?”, it was like communicating with a computer in…

Ruby

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First time doing CLI ruby gem
First time doing CLI ruby gem
Ruby

4 min read


Nov 9, 2020

What made me consider going to Tech and want to become a software engineer?

There is no doubt that the tech industry is very well known considering the huge impact it has on our everyday life. Most people take for granted all the hard work and effort put into developing things that you use every day without even thinking where it comes from and…

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Why did you decide to study Software Engineering?
Why did you decide to study Software Engineering?

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