I am passionate about building and maintaining web applications and the infrastructure required to support them.
I have spent most of my career helping businesses and organizations build reliable, maintainable, and secure websites, web applications, as well as the infrastructure required to serve them.
I work hard to keep your development pipeline running smoothly, and your web apps and websites healthy and performant.
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I experienced some annoying issues while running integration tests in a Laravel app. The official MySQL docker image will create a user and a database for you which is very convenient, but that user does not have permission to create new databases. I configure my applications to use a separate database for testing, usually with a _testing suffix and so just hit a brick wall. The solution was to mount an entrypoint script, basically, some SQL statements I want to execute when the container is created. The script will create all of the necessary databases I need.
In today's post, I discuss enhancing my blog's tag support, moving from a simple comma-separated list to a more powerful and dynamic queryable system using the Ruby gem 'acts-as-taggable-on'. I illustrate the process of installing and migrating the gem with MySQL. I then detail the code for tagging in the Blog model, updating blog forms and controllers. It's crucial to migrate existing tags to the new system, which I did using Maintenance Tasks, including tips for covering edge cases in the tests for the task. Updating existing tests for the blog model to incorporate the new taggable system was the final step. Future considerations include creating a Stimulus Controller for auto-suggested tags and extending this functionality to the Project model.
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