If you’re like me and have always created two separate repos on Github for back end and front end, then creating a mono repo may give a few headaches in the beginning. That’s what I will try to save you from in the article. What is a mono repo? Well…

Over the past few couple weeks I have been diving a bit into RSpec. If you don’t know what RSpec is, it is a testing tool written in Ruby for the purpose of testing Ruby code. …

Hello y’all. My name is Jacob Lepler. I am a software engineer based in Washington, D.C. I would like to showcase my previously built website before learning Ruby on Rails and other tools. Now, I say previous, but at the time of writing this, it is actually the only website…

Keep building projects! After having completed my most recent project app “Buggernaut”, a bug-tracking and project management tool, I realized how important it is to keep building more projects. While building your project, keep track of techs used, techniques/implementations that work, and of course the time it took for…

What is Package.json? Package.json is a JSON file Node Package Manager uses to set up a javascript project. In addition to project configuration, a package.json file can provide quick details to a developer about the project. The author, version, description, license, Github repository, dependencies, scripts, and some dependency configurations, are…

Yet another way to incorporate dummy data for testing your apps While testing your app, it is not uncommon to create some temporary object to demo with… # Person objects jacob = Person.new(name: "Jacob") alfred = Person.new(name: "Alfred") ... This basic example of dummy data, or as Wikipedia defines it…