Programming – Tom Chapin (Thomas H. Chapin IV)

How to make TradeSkillMaster auction posting 100x faster in World of Warcraft (TSM 4.11.66)

Posted on November 11, 2022 by Tom Chapin

I sometimes like to tinker around with the economy in World of Warcraft for fun, and one of my favorite auction posting tools is a […]

General Nonsense, Programming

Git pre-commit hook script for Ruby on Rails projects

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Tom Chapin

If you have ever worked on a Ruby on Rails project that uses Git for version control, odds are that you have run into a […]

Programming, Tips and Tricks

Rails – Custom CloudWatch Application Logs on Elastic Beanstalk

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Tom Chapin

I recently ran into a scenario where I was hosting a Ruby on Rails application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and I wanted to view a […]

Programming

How to clean up git branches that have already been merged

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Tom Chapin

If you have ever worked on a large programming project that was managed using git (source control), then odds are high that there was a […]

Programming

Tricks with Pry – Live Editing

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Tom Chapin

When I’m programming in Ruby, one of the most indispensable tools I’ve found is an awesome little ruby gem called Pry. Pry lets me debug […]

Rust (game) – AutoHotKey Script – Click Middle Mouse to Run

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Tom Chapin

In the video game, “Rust“, if you want to run you have to hold down both the SHIFT key and the W key at the […]

Programming

How to Re-run RSpec Tests Again After Failures

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Tom Chapin

In the course of working with Selenium and Appium via RSpec tests (while testing iOS apps), I occasionally was running into issues where Appium would […]

Programming

Specifying ruby version and rails version with rbenv when creating a new rails app

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Tom Chapin

To create a new rails project and specify the version of both ruby and rails: $> RBENV_VERSION=2.0.0-p247 rbenv exec rails _4.0.0_ new project-name In this […]

Programming, Tips and Tricks