T S Vallender

I’ve set up this site to deploy with Kamal. Hit a snag with HTTP headers not being correctly passed through somewhere between Nginx, Traefik and Puma, which I solved by upgrading to the Rails 7.1 release candidate and enabling config.assume_ssl.

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2023-09-29 16:06

Added tags to this site for microposts, which should make tracking things a bit better. In the process discovered you can’t do polymorphic associations with has_and_belongs_to_many, which seems like a missing feature.

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rails

2023-10-19 20:23

Added Solid Cache to this site. Completely and utterly unnecessary, but this is my Rails playground 😁

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rails

2023-10-19 20:39

Added the new default /up healthcheck endpoint to this site, and removed the healthcheck from the Kamal config so it can default to using that.

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kamal
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2023-10-20 10:54

Added a helper script to a project that uses RSpec to replicate the default behaviour of Rails segregation of system tests and get faster feedback more easily.

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2023-10-26 07:45

Was curious if Rails supports database-generated columns: turns out, yes, as of Rails 7:

create_table :users do |t|
  t.numeric :height_cm
  t.virtual :height_in, type: :numeric, as: 'height_cm / 2.54', stored: true
end

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2023-11-08 08:02

This looks like it might be helpful when debugging sometimes

Post.attributes_for_inspect = [:id, :title]
Post.first.inspect #=> "#<Post id: 1, title: "Hello, World!">"

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rails

2023-11-10 08:59

Wrote one very small Redmine plugin (to copy some data to the clipboard in a particular format for export) and have just started another, much bigger one, to manage jobs (in terms of blocks of time sold to clients for budget management).

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2023-11-16 21:18

Added a private section to this site to track my health and try and find some patterns in what causes my CFS flareups. Currently it's just some CRUD stuff, but I plan to build this out to have some pointlessly flashy graphs &c.

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2023-12-31 11:36

Watched the Rails World talk on deploying Active Record Encryption at GitHub.

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2024-01-03 16:07

Set up virus scanning on Active storage attachments with Clamby. Might be worth a quick blog post or PR to their docs as there were a couple of gotchas.

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2024-01-26 15:42

Opened my first Rails PR (to add some documentation). Hopefully it gets merged.

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rails

2024-01-26 18:22

Discovered that Active Storage variants by default will strip the animation from any GIF.

The solution is to pass loader: { page: nil } to variant, and also to preprocess the image with a call to convert --coalesce.