In this blog post I will touch on how I created a bookmark style Chrome Extension that persists links to a database using a Rails API. I will cover the basics of setting up the skeleton for a Chrome Extension and get into how I used the Chrome API and…
All the Junk My last blog post dealt with verifying user email addresses using confirmation emails and unique tokens. Even if you read the blog, in which I laid out the majority of the steps, you are bound to make mistakes setting it up. Now, imagine how many mistakes I…
Project Mode It's project time for the students here at the Flatiron School, which means absolute madness has ensued. This is the time where you get to solidify some of the concepts you have been exposed to during the course of the semester, and also explore new concepts, because you…
Gem Install Faker As I begin to start building applications for the web, having data to use during development has become more and more important. Testing associations is important at this stage in my journey and having fake data to test against is imperative. Not only is having fake data…
Enumerable#inject While trying to complete what seemed like very simple task, I stumbled across Enumerable#inject. The task was to take an array of numbers and calculate the sum of all of the numbers. The beginner programmer in me said, "Hey, lets iterate through the numbers using the handy…