rails – Brian's Collection of Code

Adding Email Confirmation Feature to Rails With Devise

Up until this point, I’ve survived without using Devise. I’ve built simple authentication from scratch or using BCrypt, and that worked for me. However, most large companies will use Devise, and for good reason. It provides you with everything you need for authentication, password resetting, email confirmation, and more. So, I’ve decided to upgrade myContinue reading “Adding Email Confirmation Feature to Rails With Devise”

“iDid” Part 3 – Building a Leaderboard using ActiveRecord Queries

This is part of a series documenting the creation of my mobile-forward web application, “iDid”. See links below if you’re interested in the humble beginnings of this app! Part 1 | Part 2 | Github Front-End | Github Back-End So far, I’ve been documenting mostly my work on the front end of this application. SinceContinue reading ““iDid” Part 3 – Building a Leaderboard using ActiveRecord Queries”

React-Rails App – “iDid”

As my first full-stack application using React (and Redux), I chose to build an application that I named “iDid”, for tracking the things you do. It was made to be adaptable, so that you can add any task you’d like to count, and keep track of it. Right now it can only track quantity, butContinue reading “React-Rails App – “iDid””

Javascript / Rails Project: Dual n-Back Game

Going in to this project, I honestly felt unprepared. I felt like I didn’t know enough Javascript to create an entire frontend using it. I think it was because I’ve been used to working within the framework of Rails, which provides so many things by default, and now I was going to a new languageContinue reading “Javascript / Rails Project: Dual n-Back Game”

My First Rails Project: Managing a Dog Walking Business

For this project, I decided to adapt my Sinatra project of the same name to Rails. Not only was I able to do loads of refactoring this way, making the code and the user experience nice and clean, but it was also much easier to add the information I wanted, where I needed it. Also,Continue reading “My First Rails Project: Managing a Dog Walking Business”