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Fitbit Charge 3 Weather SOLVED
My Fitbit Charge 3 was not showing the Weather. This issues is SOLVED.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Use the Bundle Outdated command to keep your Rails applications secure
Using outdated gems introduces vulnerabilities to your Rails Applications. There is an easy way to find outdated gems using the Bundle Outdated command.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Copy and paste with Putty running on an Ubuntu VM
THIS was driving me batty. I have Putty running on Ubuntu which runs on an Oracle Virtualbox on a Win 10 machine. I was trying to copy and paste and getting nowhere. The solution turned out to be pretty simple
Continue readingAn easy way to determine which version of Linux you are running.
Determining the exact version of Linux you are running is fairly simple. Use this command to find your Linux version.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Active Storage in Rails 5.2 DOES NOT SUPPORT VALIDATIONS
You have to be kidding me.. I just found out that Active Storage in Rails DOES NOT SUPPORT VALIDATIONS.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Using Always Up to run Ruby on Rails Puma Servers as a service on Microsoft IIS servers.
When I first began Ruby on Rails development, I was not able to use a LAMP stack. I was limited to working with the existing Microsoft IIS server.
Managing Multiple Ruby Versions in Windows
I ran into a situation where I needed to manage and work with multiple Ruby installations on Rails on a Windows System. Unfortunately RBENV and RVM do not run under windows.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Parenthesis in a Rails radio_button_tag was preventing onclick javascript from working.
I was working with some existing code where I needed to add an onclick javascript event.
I couldn’t even get an alert box to work. After a good bit of trial and error, I found the reason. I put in a line of radio button code from the www3 school’s try it and it worked. After closer inspection, I found that the original radio button had parenthesis.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Showing the file name before committing to an upload of a CSV file in Ruby on Rails
This, of course, had to be done outside of Rails with Javascript/jQuery.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Running Rails Console in production while using Spring
This one drove me nuts for a couple of hours. I needed to modify the contents of the user table in a rails app using rails console.
After a bit of trying it seemed that I was running the rails console in development mode. So, I tried the obvious rails console production. After checking the tables, I found I was still in the development mode.
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