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ActiveRecord helper for serialized hashes

ActiveRecord's serialize functionality is quite useful when you want some schema-less data within a relational database. I have found this particularly useful for two cases: Design elements on a page Authentication data for various (unknown) external services However, the one thing that is missing from the built in functionality is the nice getter/setters ...

Values: Where tech + handmade converge

I wrote a post on the blog for my coming soon! product inspired by a talk Francis Hwang gave at GoRuCo on Javascript. He said: Our tools will change, but our values can stay the same. Read my post here.

Showing a default image if one doesn’t exist in jQuery

Have you ever wanted to default an image if the image url doesn't exist? In javascript, how do you check whether that url is real or not? Here's how! (in jQuery) (more…)

DRY up Rspec with tap!

I'm a big fan of keeping Rspec DRY. Mostly, because it hurts my heart to have to write the same thing twice. It huuuurts. Here's a great article on code reuse in Rspec. A scenario I struggle with DRYing up: I'd like to either stub! or call should_receive on a method and sometimes return a value. Previously, I would still have to write the stub! or should_receive ...

Featured on STEMinist

This is a little behind the times due to a job change, but I was featured on the STEMinist blog back in April. Check it out. Note: I am no longer at that job.