Flatiron Students Build All The Things

Last Friday, I was lucky enough to watch another batch of Flatiron School students graduate. After three months of totally appropriately long lectures from Steven Nunez [http://hostiledeveloper.com/], many many late nights debugging with Antoin Campbell [http://beatscodeandlife.ghost.io/] and a constantly inspiring amount of hard work and… »

Building a Super Simple Rails API, JSON API Edition

In an earlier post [https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/building-a-super-simple-rails-api/], we built a super quick and super simple Rails API using the Active Model Serializer gem and the Active Model Adapter. There's been a lot of growth lately, however, around JSON API. What is JSON API? So, what is… »

JWT Auth in Rails, From Scratch

In an earlier post [https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/jwt-authentication-with-rails-ember-part-i-rails-knock/], we took a look at JWT authentication in Rails, and implemented a JWT authentication system using the Knock gem. Here, we'll drop down a level and re-build our JWT authentication system from scratch, without the help of the Knock… »

Rails Refactoring Part III: The Decorator Pattern

This is the third in a series of three posts that will demonstrate implementation of three common Rails design patterns: the adapter pattern [http://thegreatcodeadventure.com/rails-refactoring-part-i-the-adapter-pattern]; service objects [http://thegreatcodeadventure.com/rails-refactoring-part-ii-services]; the decorator pattern You can find the code for these posts here [https://github.com/sophiedebenedetto/issue-trackr]… »

Rails Refactoring Part II: Services

This is the second in a series of three posts that will demonstrate implementation of three common Rails design patterns: the adapter pattern [http://thegreatcodeadventure.com/rails-refactoring-part-i-the-adapter-pattern]; service objects; the decorator pattern [http://thegreatcodeadventure.com/rails-refactoring-part-iii-the-decorator-pattern] You can find the code for these posts here [https://github.com/sophiedebenedetto/issue-trackr]… »