Eric Chrobak
Eric has cultivated his passion for technology to help small businesses use technology to solve issues and grow. Previously, grew company 50% over 2 years. Using Ruby, JavaScript, Zoho Deluge, HTML, CSS, etc. Currently works at Vaspian
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Setup Your Ruby Environment
Setting up your Ruby environment the first time is tricky. You end up banging your head against the and running down the street screaming if don’t do it correctly. I’m hoping to help other developers get their Ruby environment setup correctly the first time.
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Deploying an AWS Lambda Ruby Function
I needed a CD/CI pipeline to push Ruby apps to version control and deploy to AWS Lambda. The documentation out there is disjointed. I dealt with many issues and lots of trial and error trying to setup this process. It was crucial to have this pipeline setup so I can work on the applications no ma...
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Extracting Data from JSON with Ruby
I have a simple app I built to receive a string and pass that string to a .txt file. The next goal of the application was to receive data from a .json file. The main hurdles that I had to face were setting headers and formatting the data to output to a file. That required a complete overhaul of t...
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How to Extend Your App
I worked in construction previously and we built several home additions. These additions had to integrate with the existing systems of the home like the HVAC, plumbing, and electricity. If you are building up on the house then you have to consider load bearing walls, ventilation, roofing, adding ...
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Moving From Ruby To PHP
At my 9-5 we provide a variety of telecom services to our clients and use Zoho One as our ERP. We have a texting platform that sends out mass text messages on behalf of our clients. However, they need the phone numbers verified before sending the sms blast out. We provide a service that scrubs th...
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I Repurposed a JavaScript chat app as an AI bot
Recently, I had the opportunity to share about software development at a local high school career fair. I thought of what I might showcase to the students and thought back to an app I built in a JavaScript class. It received some input and output reponses to the input. My thought was to repurpose...
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What Can You Do With Ruby?
Have you ever asked yourself questions like:
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I Built A Basic Rails App
I’ve been developing for quite some time and had put my Ruby learning to the side but, it felt like to due time to get back in the saddle. So I started with the official Ruby on Rails getting started with Rails Guide. I am going to talk about the steps necessary to build that first app, the struc...
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Deploying to Jekyll
This site was started in 2016 as part of a Codecademy project. At the time it was built on HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and JQuery. It went through a series of changes from there. With the main one being a css theme being added for the nav menu.Over time I saw the maintenance of the site was...
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Sinatra and MVC
Developing an app involves a level of complexity that would make using a single file for all the code completely useless. This is due the difficulty of debugging a large file and make changes when necessary. In addition such a file would be difficult to read.This is were frameworks come in such a...
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COFFEE, Coffee, and coffee...
Coffee and coding seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly. When I hunker down to work on a project there is nothing like a nice cup of java to get me going!
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LEARN IDE & General Keyboard Shorcuts
I love that coding and programming involves shortcuts to increase productivity.
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Too Many Relationships!? Avoid Infinite Loops When Relating Objects
Do you have too many relationships? Does your app have to many relationships? Actually what I’m wondering is do you get stuck in a loop with bad relationship(s)? Well I’m sure we’ve all been there where you just cant seem to break out of a bad loop when relating classes to one another(not unlike ...
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OO TIC TAC TOE and Word to the wise: Follow the Directions!
Solving problems with programming is an open ended adventure. There are multiple ways to solve a problem, present an idea, or make something. My most frustrating experience thus far in coding was a project I had for an online coding program I’m doing with Flatiron School. My goal was to build an ...
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A Reason to Code
Computer programming/coding started out as the domain of “geeks”, “nerds”, and “hackers” from the 50’s up until the last 10-15 years. Around the time of the dotcom burst of the the late 90’s many more people started pursuing careers in programming(coding). What was once a job behind a honking mon...