Creating New Records with Ember's Embedded Record Mixin

This post will provide one approach to creating and persisting new records with complex associations in Ember and Rails using the Rails Active Model Serializer, Ember Active Model Adapter and Active Model Serializer and Ember's Embedded Record Mixin. Background Let's start with some background on the… »

Creating a Current User Property in Ember

I recently used the Ember Simple Auth library to build user authorization into an Ember app with a Rails API back-end for the first time. Once I had it up and running, and a user could successfully log in, my next logical step was to implement a "current user&… »

Deploying ActionCable with a Single Server

In a series of posts from a few months back (ActionCable Part I [https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/page/3/], Action Cable Part II [https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/deploying-action-cable-to-heroku/]), I explored Rails' ActionCable and built out an app in which users can post code snippets in chat room-like forums in… »

Deploying Rails to DigitalOcean, the Hard Way

### Introduction: Deploying Rails as a n00bAs a relative n00b to the world of web development, I don't have much experience deploying production-level apps. As a student at the Flatiron School, I became familiar with using Heroku to deploy and host my Rails applications. After graduating Flatiron, I continued… »

Death to Javascript! Or, Writing Javascript with Ruby

Okay, first off, don't let the title of this post mislead you. We love Javascript. Say it with me: "We love Javascript". Now that we've gotten that out of the way, we can admit it: learning Javascript after learning Ruby is hard. Those of… »