Avoiding Instance Variable Pain in Rails Controllers and Views
Some Rails patterns are so ingrained in us that we don’t think about them anymore. That’s sort of the point […]
Articles by Michael Crismali
Hello RowBoat: CSV Rows to DB Rows
Originally I set out to write a blog post on how to combine SmarterCSV and activerecord-import to efficiently parse and […]
Cross Platform Letter Spacing For React Native
Sometimes you’re working on a mobile app and things will just feel a little too tight. Maybe it’s the font […]
React with Standard JS and Snazzy: 2017 Edition
It was only a few months ago I wrote a blog post on how to set up Create React App […]
Setting Up RSpec And Capybara In Rails 5 For Testing
There are a lot of great tools for testing Rails apps; RSpec and Capybara are particularly great. While basic integration of […]
Create React App and Standard JS
(Note: An new post about setting up linting with Standard JS in your projects can be found here.) Here I’m […]
Setting Up Your Rails 5 App For JavaScript Testing
About 2 years ago I wrote about how to set up your Rails app for JavaScript testing, so I figured […]
Jsonb Accessor 1.0 Beta and 0.4 Beta Releases
Hello all! We’ve just released a 1.0 beta and 0.4 beta versions of our Jsonb Accessor gem. The 0.4 beta […]
Getting A Schema File From Elixir’s Ecto
Elixir’s Ecto ORM is great, but sometimes I find myself missing the schema.rb from Rails. It’s handy to crack open schema.rb to really see what’s going on in the database. It’s a bigger part of my workflow than I realized. Ecto doesn’t give you quite the same functionality right out of the box, but I’ve found a way to get pretty close.