Jun 6, 2015

Writing faster tests with "build stubbed"

Writing tests are good. Writing slow tests are frustrating for continuous deployment. Using FactoryGirl's build_stubbed is fast!

Jul 11, 2014

CRUD Actions with Google Calendar and Rails

I am going to go through the complete steps of adding, updating, and deleting a event from an Event Dashboard in your Rails app that will also add, update, and delete that event in a corresponding Google Calendar (I am adding, updating, and deleting events to my personal calendar, but you can change the calendarId option in the parameters to any calendar that you have admin access to).

Jun 4, 2014

Adding an Event to Google Calendar from a Rails App

I needed to create an Events API that could talk to multiple apps. In addition, it was preferable that the Events API play well with Google Calendar. To solve this problem, I integrated OmniAuth with Google into my current Devise setup and then, used the Google Calendar API to interact with my Rails App.