The personal website and blog of Eric Berry.https://berry.sh/https://berry.sh/posts/codex-worktrees-git-locking/https://berry.sh/posts/codex-worktrees-git-locking/Practical patterns for safely using git worktrees with multiple concurrent agents without hitting Git lock errors.Fri, 29 May 2026 16:51:28 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/build-and-maintain-sitemap-for-sitepress/https://berry.sh/posts/build-and-maintain-sitemap-for-sitepress/Generate your sitemap.xml file for Sitepress contentTue, 19 Mar 2024 17:26:34 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/awesome-hotwire/https://berry.sh/posts/awesome-hotwire/Awesome Hotwire Resources, Screencasts & TutorialsTue, 19 Mar 2024 06:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/intro-berry-sh/https://berry.sh/posts/intro-berry-sh/A brief overview of the new berry.sh and what to expect in the futureSun, 17 Mar 2024 15:28:10 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/rails-saas-conference/https://berry.sh/posts/rails-saas-conference/A recount of my experience at the Rails SaaS conference, a "next-generation" conference dedicated to the intersection of business and software development.Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/instructure-the-best-job-i-ever-left/https://berry.sh/posts/instructure-the-best-job-i-ever-left/Note: The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily representative of all employees or their experiences. Unlike my other posts of the past &hellip;Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:29:18 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/useful-ember-code-examples/https://berry.sh/posts/useful-ember-code-examples/Sharing JavaScript via JSBin, JSFiddle, etc. is great but it can be hard to keep track of them. Here is a list of useful Ember code examples. &hellip;Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:14:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/githubs-copy-to-clipboard-with-ember/https://berry.sh/posts/githubs-copy-to-clipboard-with-ember/GitHub recently replaced the copy and paste functionality with ZeroClipboard, a library for copying text to the clipboard that uses an invisible &hellip;Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:36:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/authentication-with-emberjs-part-3/https://berry.sh/posts/authentication-with-emberjs-part-3/If you have not yet gone through Part 1 and Part 2, I recommend you do. You can check out the code up to this point with the following: $ git clone &hellip;Tue, 09 Jul 2013 02:39:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/authentication-with-emberjs-part-2/https://berry.sh/posts/authentication-with-emberjs-part-2/If you have not yet gone through Part 1, I recommend you do. You can check out the code up to this point with the following: $ git clone https:// &hellip;Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:36:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/authentication-with-emberjs-part-1/https://berry.sh/posts/authentication-with-emberjs-part-1/Updated Feb 20, 2014 to use Ember v1.4.1 Authentication with Ember is difficult. I have spent a couple of weeks trying out different approaches and &hellip;Mon, 08 Jul 2013 22:24:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/useful-functions-in-the-ember-namespace/https://berry.sh/posts/useful-functions-in-the-ember-namespace/Have you been frustrated at all with Ember because of a lack of common functionality? Well, if you are you are probably like how I was and forgot to &hellip;Sun, 07 Jul 2013 17:28:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/using-flash-messages-with-emberjs/https://berry.sh/posts/using-flash-messages-with-emberjs/In a recent app I have written in Ember, I found that the need to display flash messages came up. This has always been given to me for free with &hellip;Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:12:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/angularjs-on-rails-4-part-2/https://berry.sh/posts/angularjs-on-rails-4-part-2/Let&rsquo;s pick up where we left off. If you haven&rsquo;t already, make sure you go through Part 1 to create your base Rails app with the API setup &hellip;Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:35:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/angularjs-on-rails-4-part-1/https://berry.sh/posts/angularjs-on-rails-4-part-1/<div style=Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:28:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/rubymine-memory-config-vmoptions/https://berry.sh/posts/rubymine-memory-config-vmoptions/RubyMine has become awesomer and awesomer over the years and is now my primary development tool for Rails development. One thing I&rsquo;ve found &hellip;Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:30:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/bootstrapping-angularjs-with-yeoman/https://berry.sh/posts/bootstrapping-angularjs-with-yeoman/<div style=Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:13:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/simple-fix-for-pagination-with-twitter-bootstrap/https://berry.sh/posts/simple-fix-for-pagination-with-twitter-bootstrap/As a Rails guy, I always perform my table pagination using mislav&rsquo;s will paginate gem. However, when I use it combined with Twitter Bootstrap, &hellip;Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:40:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/airbrake-exception-logging-in-your-grails-application/https://berry.sh/posts/airbrake-exception-logging-in-your-grails-application/Airbrake has a Java library that can be used in your Grails application fairly easily. A couple of items that the library doesn&rsquo;t do is make it &hellip;Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:34:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/tools-i-use-as-a-developer/https://berry.sh/posts/tools-i-use-as-a-developer/<div style=Thu, 24 May 2012 22:48:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/stupid-simple-post-slash-get-with-groovy-httpbuilder/https://berry.sh/posts/stupid-simple-post-slash-get-with-groovy-httpbuilder/I was frustrated as hell today finding examples on how to use HTTPBuilder to perform a simple POST and GET request in my Grails application. I now &hellip;Mon, 07 May 2012 23:57:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/grails-authentication-with-shiro/https://berry.sh/posts/grails-authentication-with-shiro/Source code for the example project can be found at https://github.com/cavneb/grails-shiro-example. Shiro is a security framework that is meant to &hellip;Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:03:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/asset-pipeline-for-dummies/https://berry.sh/posts/asset-pipeline-for-dummies/The Rails asset pipeline is very powerful, but often misunderstood. At the Utah Ruby User Group, most of the attendees aren&rsquo;t sure how to use &hellip;Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:41:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/grails-domain-classes-and-enums/https://berry.sh/posts/grails-domain-classes-and-enums/For a long time, I have been creating static int values to represent states in domain classes. For example, I would have something like the following &hellip;Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/groovy-and-grails-want-to-know-more/https://berry.sh/posts/groovy-and-grails-want-to-know-more/For those who are new to Groovy and Grails, here are a list of screencasts I created a while ago, along with a couple of slideshare presentations.Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/bunny-rabbitmq/https://berry.sh/posts/bunny-rabbitmq/Recently I was asked to implement Redis/Resque into an existing project that already had Redis up and running with another Redis server. This ended &hellip;Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/google-plus-for-the-facebook-user/https://berry.sh/posts/google-plus-for-the-facebook-user/Google+ vs. Facebook If you're like me, most of your family, if not all, communicates with each other via Facebook. For some reason, it has just become easier to post a quick message online.Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/how-to-fix-the-iconv-require-error-in-ruby-1-dot-9-and-rvm/https://berry.sh/posts/how-to-fix-the-iconv-require-error-in-ruby-1-dot-9-and-rvm/This post was copied from exceptions.wordpress.com with minor updates. So you are working with RVM / Rails 3 / Ruby 1.9.2 and you keep on getting the &hellip;Tue, 17 May 2011 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/multi-associative-gorm-criteria-with-projections/https://berry.sh/posts/multi-associative-gorm-criteria-with-projections/I have three domain classes: Lead, Submission and BuyerLog: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 class Lead { static hasMany = [ &hellip;Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/paginator-for-those-suffering-from-postgresql-count-star-speed-issues/https://berry.sh/posts/paginator-for-those-suffering-from-postgresql-count-star-speed-issues/Our company has been using PostgreSQL for a very long time and has found it a very solid product for our needs. One thing that we&rsquo;ve run into &hellip;Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/grails-screencasts/https://berry.sh/posts/grails-screencasts/Grails Screencasts Here are several screencasts that I did for TeachMeToCode.com Introduction to Grails – Part 1 Are you new to Grails? Grails is an excellent alternative to Ruby on Rails,.Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/roll-your-own-ajax-based-captcha-in-grails/https://berry.sh/posts/roll-your-own-ajax-based-captcha-in-grails/Recently, I was asked to come up with a better solution to our captcha needs. We have been using ReCaptcha, which is great but difficult to read at &hellip;Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/uploading-files-in-grails/https://berry.sh/posts/uploading-files-in-grails/Here&rsquo;s the slides from a presentation I did at the UGGUG in May 2010. I found that I needed to use it again today so I posted it. Here is the &hellip;Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/passing-data-from-view-to-layout-via-pageproperty/https://berry.sh/posts/passing-data-from-view-to-layout-via-pageproperty/I am writing a new Grails application which uses the website template Admintasia. Part of the layout gsp file has a section for the header and sub- &hellip;Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/using-tag-lib-within-controllers-and-services/https://berry.sh/posts/using-tag-lib-within-controllers-and-services/So let&rsquo;s say you want to utilize the standard grails tag lib of formatNumber within your domain class, controller or service. How would you go &hellip;Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/using-criteria-builder-with-projections/https://berry.sh/posts/using-criteria-builder-with-projections/Something I had to dig around for today was how to perform a sum on a table using Criteria Builder. It seems that it is treated a bit different than &hellip;Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/multi-line-rails-logger-trick/https://berry.sh/posts/multi-line-rails-logger-trick/One thing that I like to do with my logger output is allow for multi-line output. It makes it much easier to read and keeps my code cleaner. Instead &hellip;Thu, 27 May 2010 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/using-multiple-smtp-accounts-with-rails-and-actionmailer/https://berry.sh/posts/using-multiple-smtp-accounts-with-rails-and-actionmailer/Recently I ran into a problem where I needed to be able to send emails via two different SMTP accounts within the same Rails application. I scoured &hellip;Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/creating-custom-soap-requests-with-ruby-and-net-http/https://berry.sh/posts/creating-custom-soap-requests-with-ruby-and-net-http/I interviewed at a company a while ago and one of the questions they asked me was the familiar &ldquo;You have 8 golf balls and a justice scale. One &hellip;Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/rubycocoa-and-nstables-de-mystified/https://berry.sh/posts/rubycocoa-and-nstables-de-mystified/I spent a good 3 hours today trying to figure out exactly how to get NSTables working while using RubyCocoa. Now that I finally figured it out (to a &hellip;Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMThttps://berry.sh/posts/how-to-create-tabs-with-css-and-jquery-from-scratch/https://berry.sh/posts/how-to-create-tabs-with-css-and-jquery-from-scratch/Another feature that is often added to Web 2.0 sites is tabbed content. I&rsquo;m not talking about tabbed navigation. Tabbed content is when &hellip;Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT