Hi, I'm Chris.
I'm a software developer and consultant based in Plymouth, UK. This site is a collection of tutorials, thoughts and things I've learned in code, life, and running my business.
Rails and React: Fixing “Module not found” errors for JSX files
Recently, whilst exploring how we can use React with Rails at Plymouth Software, we were coming up against an error trying to run the simple “Hello… Continue reading →
Using MariaDB / MySQL Service Containers Azure in Devops Pipeline
I’ve recently been working a Rails application CI to Azure Devops Pipelines feature. As part of the migration, the app is also being bundled into… Continue reading →
The Business of Software at FutureSync 2019
Last week I was lucky enough to give a talk at the FutureSync 2019 conference in Plymouth. Entitled “The Business of Software”, taking the time to… Continue reading →
Rails 5: Matching Asset URLs in Feature Specs
As part of an ongoing Rails Upgrade for a large web application, I needed to update a feature spec that checked the URL of included assets. In… Continue reading →
Rails on Docker: How to Share Containers Across Multiple Projects
When running your applications in containers, you usually want to isolate everything so that the app can be independent of any external . There are… Continue reading →
Rails on Docker: Using an Entrypoint File in your Containers
Photo by Franck V. on Unsplash. When using Docker to run your Rails apps in development, you might come across a leftover server.pid file in your… Continue reading →