Rails 8 introduced support for multiple databases, and by default, it wants to create separate database instances for your primary data, cache, queue, and ActionCable connections. If you’re deploying to Heroku and you just follow the defaults, you’ll end up with four separate Postgres databases, which means four separate billable databases instances. I’m using a … Read more
This is probably one of the simplest things, but something that I have to stop and ask myself over and over again: when do I use singular or plural when using Rails generators? I’ve been a long time fan and user of Ruby on Rails. I’m also not a developer, so working with proper coding … Read more
Favicons are this nifty little icons on the tab of your browser to help give a little personalized identity rather than the blank page one which is the default This is one of the super fast things to fix yet I forget every time I build out a Rails app. Favicons can be created with … Read more
I’ve been doing some Rails work recently and one of the things that I’ve found to be a nice aesthetic add-on is putting some nicer flash messages in. Over at dzone.com there is an example which I’ve worked off of – http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3145 The example is as follows. Add this section to your application_helper.rb def show_flash … Read more