Drew Bragg

Full Stack Dev && Single Dad && Board Game Geek && Hockey Player

Warrington, PA Joined on Feb 8, 2018 drbragg@hey.com https://www.drbragg.dev

Education

Launch Academy Bootcamp, Udacity Front-End Developer Nanodegree

Work

Senior Engineer at Podia

Ruby && Ruby on Rails || JavaScript && (Vue.js || Stimulus.js)

Trying to go as deep as I can in Rails while maintaining the ability to rapidly build and expand. Getting a little more advanced with Vue.js.

32 posts published

140 comments written

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Drew Bragg

Jun 9 '22

New Episode! Chris Oliver on Code and the Coding Coders who Code it

#podcast #ruby #rails #webdev

1 min read

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Drew Bragg

Dec 3 '21

The Curious Case of the DATA Constant

#ruby #programming

2 min read

Drew Bragg

Sep 22 '21

Using the new `weekday_select` in Rails 7

#rails #ruby #webdev

3 min read

Drew Bragg

Aug 19 '21

Using Mail Interceptors in Rails

#ruby #rails #webdev

2 min read

Drew Bragg

Jun 2 '21

Rails Design Patterns: Form Object

#ruby #rails #webdev

5 min read

Drew Bragg

Apr 6 '21

for/in vs. each in Ruby: More than just syntax

#ruby #beginners

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Mar 22 '21

Introducing the Rails class_names method

#rails #ruby #webdev

2 min read

Drew Bragg

Jun 23 '20

Giving credit where credit is due

#discuss #writing

2 min read

Drew Bragg

Jun 18 '20

Reset Postgres ID sequence in Rails

#todayilearned #rails #postgres #webdev

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Jun 2 '20

TIL: alias in Ruby

#todayilearned #ruby #beginners

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Jun 2 '20

taco_tuesday gem, now with more tacos

#jokes #ruby #news

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Jun 1 '20

The taco_tuesday gem, cause Tacos

#showdev #ruby #jokes #watercooler

1 min read

Drew Bragg

May 30 '20

Manifest vs head icons in the Vue CLI PWA Plugin

#vue #pwa #icons #webdev

2 min read

Drew Bragg

May 14 '20

Handling Service Worker updates in your Vue PWA

#vue #pwa #webdev #javascript

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6 min read

Drew Bragg

May 7 '20

Aaron Patterson's keynote was fantastic

#ruby #rails #railsconf

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Oct 18 '19

Twiddle-wakka (Yes, that's a real thing)

#todayilearned #ruby #lolz

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Sep 5 '19

Dev.to is presenting Hacktoberfest?!

#meta #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Aug 15 '19

Adding missing indexes in your Rails App

#ruby #rails #database #sql

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Jun 12 '19

How to teach a non-tech person to test an app

#help #discuss

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Jan 9 '19

I like to hit vulcanized rubber disks with a stick.

#discuss #hobbies #fun #dev

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Dec 11 '18

Dear future programmer

#beginners #motivation #learning #career

2 min read

Drew Bragg

Dec 5 '18

acts-as-taggable-on causing SQL errors when ordered by relation

#help #rails #actsastaggableon

2 min read

Drew Bragg

Nov 12 '18

Where to start refactoring.

#discuss #rails #refactoring #help

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Nov 9 '18

Today I fixed a bug using the best method name ever

#todayilearned #ruby #rails

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Oct 31 '18

Handling ActiveStorage direct uploads and server side form validations

#rails #activestorage #hack

3 min read

Drew Bragg

Oct 31 '18

LibertyJS, who's going?

#discuss #conference #javascript #philadelphia

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Oct 16 '18

Taco Tuesday

#ruby #tacos #joke #lolz

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Oct 4 '18

Deploying a Rails app to Digital Ocean with Capistrano

#rails #production #deploy #beginners

6 min read

Drew Bragg

Sep 21 '18

The Dangers of Drinking and Refactoring

#ruby #rails #wtf #drunk

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Sep 20 '18

Lessons I learned from training with special forces that I use in software development

#beginners #career #motivation #dieliving

3 min read

Drew Bragg

Apr 16 '18

Free Beer!

#discuss

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Apr 10 '18

First Developer Conference, Suggestions?

#discuss #rails

1 min read

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