December 2018 – Hack Hints

Setting up WordPress for free on AWS EC2 (Ubuntu)

Posted on December 8, 2018 by Efrem Roberson

This is a step-by-step guide for setting up wordpress on an AWS EC2 instance. In this guide we will use a free-tier Ubuntu image instead of an Amazon Linux image. Register an account on AWS (https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/start) Navigate to the EC2… Continue Reading →

Rendering JS in Rails

Posted on December 8, 2018 by Efrem Roberson

Ruby on Rails isn’t extremely JS friendly by nature (or even async friendly). However, there are some lesser-known tricks where you can use JavaScript in a Rails-friendly manner. Lets start off with a controller with index, create, and destroy routes… Continue Reading →