Category Archives: Software Development

Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 7 – Create GamePlayers Table

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Chris C

I gave the Introduction to ORMs for DBAs presentation at SQL Saturday 710 but it didn’t go as well as I would have liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working).  Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show you … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Create a React-Rails App

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Chris C

A working example can be found here in the Saturday MP Examples GitHub. First thing you need to do is create a basic Rails app as outlined in my previous post.  My setup is the same as creating Rails app: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned how to Generate a ERD for Rails Application

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Chris C

Back in the day Rails apps didn’t add foreign keys to database tables.  Believe it or not this was a feature not a bug.  The idea was that you shouldn’t “repeat” the relationship between you models in the code and … Continue reading →

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Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 6 – Create GamesPlayed Table and CRUD

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Chris C

I gave the Introduction to ORMs for DBAs presentation at SQL Saturday 710 but it didn’t go as well as I would have liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working).  Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show you … Continue reading →

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Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 5 – Create GameResultTypes Table and CRUD

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Chris C

I gave the Introduction to ORMs for DBAs presentation at SQL Saturday 710 but it didn’t go as well as I would have liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working).  Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show you … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned how to Create Rails Docker Container Without Ruby Installed

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Chris C

I was curious to see if I could create a Docker container for a new Rails project without having Ruby or Rails installed on the host machine.  To do this I created a new Ubuntu 18 virtual machine with the … Continue reading →

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Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 4 – Create Game CRUD

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Chris C

I gave the Introduction to ORMs for DBAs at SQL Saturday 710 but it didn’t go as well as I would have liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working).  Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show … Continue reading →

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Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 3 – Player CRUD

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Chris C

I gave the Introduction to ORMs for DBAs at SQL Saturday 710 but it didn’t go as well as I would have liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working).  Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show … Continue reading →

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Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 2 – Games Table

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Chris C

I gave the Introduction to ORMs for DBAs at SQL Saturday 710 but it didn’t go as well as I would have liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working).  Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show … Continue reading →

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Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 1 – Create Player Table

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Chris C

I gave the Introduction to ORMs for DBAs at SQL Saturday 710 but it didn’t go as well as I would have liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working).  Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show … Continue reading →

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