Kitty Con Gato

Hi. I am travis and I work in a place long ago abandoned by the gods: New York City. By day, I am a Software Engineer at Patreon. By night, i am a normal person.

Dec 27
Dec 27 A Better Time with Rails url_helpers

A boy was given a knife

Feb 1
Feb 1 Postgres: Adding Foreign Keys With Zero Downtime

When I think about foreign keys in Postgres, I shudder with fear

Oct 15
Oct 15 Postgres and the Rails Sandbox

This may be an esoteric problem, but if you've encountered it, you can probably empathize

Oct 2
Oct 2 Beware the ORM: Locking and Joins

There are a lot of people who have a lot of opinions about ORMs

Aug 11
Aug 11 Intro to Avro

Remember the good old days when you only had one app and life was easy?

Jul 30
Jul 30 FactoryGirl First Or Create

Let's just say FactoryGirl doesn't have a feature like this for a reason.

Jun 18
Jun 18 RSpec Search & Destroy

There are at least a million blog posts out there

Apr 8
Apr 8 Rails Jail

The Rails console is one of my favorite things as a developer

Mar 1
Mar 1 Counting is Hard

You would think we'd have figured this one out by now.