Andrew's Getting Back on the Rails
Series

Rails 7 Application

In this series I'll be documenting my journey of building a brand new Rails 7 application. Please comment if you have suggestions on how I can improve any aspect, or provide alternatives.

Articles in this series

Setting up GitHub

Jun 6, 20221 min read

Part 1 of building a Rails 7 application · Start by following the instructions on GitHub for registering a new account. GitHub Sign Up The next step is...

Setting up GitHub

Initializing a Rails 7 application with Postgres and TailwindCSS

Jun 6, 20221 min read

Part 2 of building a Rails 7 application · The first step is to install Ruby. I use rvm and take advantage of gemsets also. % rvm install ruby-3.0.2 %...

Initializing a Rails 7 application with Postgres and TailwindCSS

Monitoring code quality

Jun 8, 20223 min read

Part 3 of building a Rails 7 application · I want to keep an eye on best practices when it comes to writing my Ruby. This includes style, security,...

Monitoring code quality

Creating the Database schema

Jun 8, 20223 min read

Part 4 of building a Rails 7 application · Rails provides scaffolds for generating all the boilerplate code for a Model in the application. This also...

Creating the Database schema

Testing and Continuous Integration

Jun 9, 20224 min read

Part 5 of building a Rails 7 application · Previously for CI/CD I have used CircleCI, TravisCI and other platforms (like Bamboo). For this project I will...

Testing and Continuous Integration

Collections and Resources - DRYing Up

Jun 10, 20226 min read

Part 6 of building a Rails 7 application · Now that I've got some scaffolded code in there for the models I intend to use for this application there is...

Collections and Resources - DRYing Up