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Now that our Rails models are in order we can finally get to creating our first GraphQL API. Step 1: Set up the gem graphql-ruby has great documentation for doing setup. this is a summary 1. Generate the installation $ rails g graphql:install 2. Generate our models $ rails g graphql:

When last we left off, we had just created a rails api site, set up the models and added some sample data generation. You can download the github repo and checkout the Part2 branch to begin with this article. _(any file paths references are all relative to the rails\api

I have recently been looking into django and other frameworks. I have been working quite a bit with the rails GraphQL gem. In this article, I want to test the difference between both frameworks in providing graphql data to a common interface In this sample project we'll start an app

So, I knew this was possible. I have certainly used smooth scrolling in the past. Maybe I even used a jQuery library or two to do it. Of course, I know it could be done in pure JS ... But I haven't had the opportunity to do it for a while.

One of the most common coding interview questions is the FizzBuzz. It essentially demonstrates that you have a basic knowledge of looping and if/else statements. The Problem: print all of the numbers from 1-100 If a number is divisible by 3 print the number followed by 'fizz' If a

So recently I've been updating my javascript skills with a little node action and I came across the a few things that I hadn't noticed before in javascript. Both of these revolve around the let keyword and the var keyword. The Deal With var Everyone knows you should put var

So recently I've been trying to sharpen up my javascript skills. One of the sites I've been using a bit is codewars.com (because studying is always a bit easier if you can do it competatively). Whilst going through some competitors answers to a particular challenge, I noticed the double

So I recently heard about semantic ui on the changelog podcast. It had a ton of options but was still such a young project that I originally hesitated using it in production code. It's still in Aplha (yes, I'm giving into my cargo-culting tendencies here...), but I finally have a

#theNewHotness I've been hearing about the awesomeness of elm for a little while now. It's a strongly typed functional language written for crafting user interfaces that compiles into javascript. It also has a virtual-dom implementation that claims to be faster than react. If you're keeping up with the hot buzzwords

The new 4.2 release of rails just hit RC3 and should be available for release before Christmas. So, I decided to take advantage of the new adequate record update and the fancy new active jobs interface for a project I am working on. Here are the notes from my

My post on upgrading to rails 4.2 is now over a year out. The new beta has been out since December and it's time to try the New Hotness™. To start I'm using this blog post from heroku. The following are my impressions in upgrading a recent rails 4.

Background So recently I've been working with the SirTrevor Block Editor for a couple of projects I've been working on. This post is a quick rundown of the editor and block lifecycles. The Editor Lifecycle Initialize() DOM Setup ST double checks that it has a dom element and then setups