ruby – 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”

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””

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”

Sinatra Project – Web App for a Dog Walking Business

For my Sinatra project, I created a back-end for my dog walking business called Oh My Dog! Pet Care. It keeps track of all of our customers, their doggos, and scheduled walks. First, you must create an account to see any of the other views, allowing only registered users to see sensitive info and makeContinue reading “Sinatra Project – Web App for a Dog Walking Business”

CLI Project – Bitcoin.com Crypto API

For this project, I wanted to create something that could potentially be useful. The subject of algotrading is really interesting to me, and since the world of cryptocurrency is smaller than the stock market, I decided to apply it to that. Since the overall volume is lower, it’s easier to take advantage of something calledContinue reading “CLI Project – Bitcoin.com Crypto API”

Creating a Ruby CLI Gem

I began working on this gem using using the guides at: https://guides.rubygems.org/make-your-own-gem/ The repo for this project can be found here: https://github.com/nichol88/nhl_stats With the challenge of creating a web-scraping CLI gem, I decided that I would go for professional sports data, seeing as how they would most likely be easily accessible on the internet. TheContinue reading “Creating a Ruby CLI Gem”