Tech Stack Toby uses most often
Right now Toby is most interested in the following languages;
- Ruby
- Ruby on Rails
- JavaScript
- CSS
He has a firm grounding in HTML, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Git, Jekyll, and more. He can turn his hand to most things.
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Toby's latest articles
- Updating payment method email addresses in Stripe You can't update the email address associated with a payment method in Stripe via their dashboard, you need to use the Stripe CLI
- Irreversible Rails Migrations What are irreversible migrations and how might we use them to our advantage?
- The best way to test model scopes in Rails Learn about Rails scopes and how to best test them with both Rspec and Minitest
- Finding out what called a Ruby method A quick way to understand what is calling your code using the caller method
- How we helped Turas We've been helping a local charity improve their web presence, that often means more than code
- Getting more out of Plausible Some things we've done to up our Plausible analytics game
- Forcing a Rails database column to be not null How you can force a table column to always have something in it with Rails
- We've deleted an article's worth of unhelpful words We've improved several pages across our site by removing words that add no value, and often detract from the article.
- Configure VS code to only format changed lines I used to format an entire file on save, but now I just format my changes, VS Code makes this easy.
- Why we have ads We run ads on the site, this article talks about how we try and make them not terrible and why we monetise in the first place