Author Archives: lysender

Rails 5 – API Only – Enable Cookies and Sessions

Posted on July 5, 2017 by lysender

So you’ve been trying a lot of trial and errors just to enable cookie based session on a API only rails app? Are you trying to customize the cookie expiration but it simply defaulting to default session only cookies? The … Continue reading →

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Carrierwave AWS – copying files from one model to another

Posted on March 20, 2017 by lysender

We have already a working code for copying Carrierwave files from one model to another, however, it is only working for file based storage. For Amazon S3 storage, it is quite not working. Here is our old code: Every time … Continue reading →

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Re: Backup Internet

Posted on November 19, 2016 by lysender

Being a web developer who works at home, would you believe that I survived working for more than one year with just one internet connection? It was just fine until issues arise from my main internet provider. Today, I couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Rails 5 – Self Join belongs_to – entity must exist error

Posted on October 25, 2016 by lysender

Wow, this is my first post for Ruby on Rails and Ruby in general! So what I’m trying to do is very simple: create a self join relationship for the user table like a parent/child relationship. However, Rails always complains … Continue reading →

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Install Gearman Module to Ubuntu Xenial with PHP 7

Posted on June 30, 2016 by lysender

The Gearman PHP module is the last piece of dependency missing in our stack before we can consider moving to PHP7. I’m currently testing Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial on PHP7 and unfortunately, the gearman module is not yet available on official … Continue reading →

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PHPStorm – open an editor window without creating a new file – stormrant

Posted on June 24, 2016 by lysender

Coming from SublimeText, I missed opening an editor window and start typing or copying and pasting content that I would throw away later. With PHPStorm, you have to create a new file under the project. However, a handy plugin comes … Continue reading →

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Using Magnet links in KTorrent

Posted on February 23, 2016 by lysender

I’ve been curious about this Magnet link stuff and I decided to give it a try after some feedback that the usual torrent file does not work. I though that this magnet links are some sort of scam that extort … Continue reading →

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Beware of using VPN when transacting with Paypal

Posted on January 24, 2016 by lysender

I just got my account put under review due to alleged suspicious activities on my Paypal account. I’m always using PrivateInternetAccess VPN with a US IP for the purpose of security and most importantly, to have a stable connection! It … Continue reading →

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Docker – AWS S3 PHP Uploads – [curl] 6: Could not resolve host – DNS issues

Posted on December 10, 2015 by lysender

Last night when I was trying to upload a new profile pic in our app, S3 uploads suddenly stopped working. Other S3 API methods are working fine except for the upload or PUT method. I have done many changes on … Continue reading →

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Whipping some anonymous function in PHP

Posted on November 9, 2015 by lysender

My goal is to validate a $_FILES array where uploaded file is an array of files. Due to the weird format of the $_FILES array for array version of the upload file, I have to validate each fields so that … Continue reading →

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