Posts tagged development
I was thinking about taking a try at an issue that would add a new sub-page to the user profile. I understand that as part of this I need to add a "route" for the new URL and somehow wire that up ...
Pages that are "in" a category show the category bar at the top, like this: An individual suggested edit should logically be "in" a category too, but isn't shown that way: I'm trying to figur...
The QPixel repository on GitHub contains the source code for the Codidact software. How can I set up a new development instance of it, so that I can work on it on my local machine?
I had to reinstall mysql on my Mac, and after some thrashing I was able to again connect to my Qpixel database from the command line. The data is as expected, so it appears that mysql itself is ok...
I was trying to fix what I thought was an easy bug: suggested edits can add restricted tags (the ones only moderators can apply), which creates a suggested edit that most reviewers can't approve. ...
In my dev environment I'm editing the flags in db/seeds/post_flag_types.yml. After editing I run rails db:seed, which adds my new flag. Fine so far. However, I had a typo in the name, so I edite...
This post aims to provide a step-by-step tutorial regarding the installation/operation of Codidact/QPixel server locally (development mode) or on a network (in production mode). The "official" ins...
Caching is really important for scaling. I know we cache some data -- something about tags (tags for a post?) has been discussed on meta, and I know the "new posts" silver dot (badge) is cached so...
I saw this report about a bug in an error message and figured that would be an easy fix. The incorrect error message is: "Tags can't have more than 5 tags". That should be "Posts can't have...". ...
One user gave feedback that he/she would be interested in seeing some kind of roadmap for the development (of Codidact). One aspect of that would surely be a development roadmap of QPixel. I know t...
Was having a look at the QPixel code base and comments in code seem to be relatively scarce. It might be that documentation about the code is stored somewhere else with Ruby or that the general lev...
