Dwight Watson's blog

A blog about Laravel & Rails by Dwight Watson;
developer of Roomies.com, myRent.co.nz, High School Notes & StudentVIP.com.au.

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September 25, 2023

Two-factor authentication (2FA) and Laravel Nova

#2-fa #laravel #nova

May 18, 2023

File uploads and 403 errors with Laravel Nova

#cloudflare #laravel #nova

February 22, 2023

Laravel with Heroku Redis and SSL

#heroku #laravel #redis

June 26, 2022

Migrating from Laravel Mix to Vite

#laravel #vite #vue

June 12, 2022

Use Amazon Location Service to render maps in the browser

May 24, 2022

Geolocate requests with Cloudflare Transform Rules

#cloudflare #serverless

April 4, 2022

Pre-defined ActiveStorage variants in Rails 7

#activestorage #rails

January 26, 2022

Supporting Safari (ES5) with Rails JS bundling/eslint

#esbuild #jsbundling-rails #rails

January 9, 2022

Deploying to Laravel Vapor with GitHub Actions

#laravel #vapor

January 8, 2022

Deploying to multiple Laravel Vapor apps

#laravel #vapor

August 18, 2021

Serving site.webmanifest on Laravel Vapor

#laravel #vapor

August 1, 2021

Using Laravel Cashier to handle Stripe webhooks

#cashier #laravel #stripe #webhooks

April 27, 2021

Geolocate requests with Cloudflare workers

#cloudflare #serverless

April 19, 2021

Rendering collections in Rails, with custom cache parameters

October 4, 2020

Uploading files with Laravel Livewire and Laravel Vapor

#laravel #livewire #vapor

May 20, 2020

S3 Transfer Acceleration with Rails ActiveStorage

#activestorage #aws #rails

April 22, 2020

Introducing nameable

January 14, 2020

Separating admin routes in Laravel

September 24, 2019

Logout current device only with Laravel 6

August 21, 2019

Testing Laravel with PHPUnit and GitHub Actions

#github #laravel #phpunit #testing

August 12, 2019

Invalid text representation with Laravel route model binding

#laravel #postgres

August 9, 2019

Improving performance of public ActiveStorage assets using a CDN

#activestorage #imgix #rails

August 6, 2019

Using MapKit JS with Rails

August 5, 2019

Installing PHPRedis with PECL/Homebrew

#pecl #php #redis

June 11, 2019

Don't use View::composer() with wildcard

May 1, 2019

Configuring Heroku Postgres with Laravel

#heroku #laravel

August 13, 2018

Dynamically import polyfills with Laravel Mix

July 24, 2018

Laravel on Heroku - with Nginx & gzip

#heroku #laravel

June 7, 2018

Caching variants with ActiveStorage

#activestorage #ruby-on-rails

May 28, 2018

Writing maintainable Laravel apps

May 25, 2018

Setting up Laravel 5.6 on Heroku

#heroku #laravel

May 15, 2018

Using date where helpers with Laravel's query builder

April 9, 2018

Accessing Rails routes helpers from anywhere in your app

March 24, 2018

.gitignore for Laravel Mix build artifacts

March 24, 2018

Set a global reply-to email address in Laravel

March 23, 2018

Laravel auth routes without registration

March 22, 2018

Autologin with Laravel 5.6

March 14, 2018

Using multiple actions on a single element with Stimulus

February 24, 2018

Hooking up a CDN with Laravel cloud storage (Flysystem)

February 20, 2018

Environment variables in assets with Heroku Pipelines

#heroku #ruby-on-rails #webpacker

January 12, 2018

Ignoring Moment.js Locales with Laravel Mix

#javascript #laravel #mix

January 11, 2018

Selenium::WebDriver::Error::WebDriverError

#rspec #testing

January 9, 2018

Accessing the root element in Stimulus

#javascript #stimulus

January 7, 2018

Ignoring Moment.js Locales with Webpacker

#javascript #ruby-on-rails #webpacker

January 6, 2018

Configuring Webpack externals with Webpacker

#javascript #ruby-on-rails #webpacker

January 5, 2018

Allow tree-shaking with Lodash

#javascript #webpacker

January 4, 2018

Bad action descriptor in Stimulus

#javascript #stimulus

January 2, 2018

ActiveStorage variants & previews on Heroku

#activestorage #ruby-on-rails

September 14, 2017

Eloquent model without updated_at (Laravel 5.5)

September 11, 2017

Element is not clickable at point (Laravel Dusk)

#laravel #testing

August 24, 2017

Dynamic query order scopes in Rails

#activerecord #ruby-on-rails

August 24, 2017

Absolute URL for an ActiveStorage attachment

#activestorage #ruby-on-rails

August 23, 2017

Testing ActiveStorage Uploads in Rails 5.2

#activestorage #rspec #ruby-on-rails

August 18, 2017

Direct image uploads to S3 with ActiveStorage

#activestorage #ruby-on-rails

August 14, 2017

Import whole directory in Webpack(er)

#ruby-on-rails #webpacker

August 13, 2017

Scaffolding Laravel tests

#laravel #php #phpunit #testing

August 12, 2017

Is webpack still compiling?

#heroku #ruby-on-rails #webpacker

August 10, 2017

Overriding Laravel authentication controllers

August 9, 2017

Rails success? predicate deprecation

#rspec #ruby-on-rails

August 7, 2017

Referencing /node_modules with Laravel Mix

August 6, 2017

Testing the redirect URL in Laravel

#laravel #testing

August 4, 2017

Replacing Rails Asset Pipeline with Webpacker

#ruby-on-rails #webpacker

August 1, 2017

Incorrect coverage reporting on Heroku CI

#heroku #ruby-on-rails #testing

July 31, 2017

Rails with Webpacker on Heroku CI

#heroku #testing

July 28, 2017

Laravel Auth scaffold tests

#laravel #phpunit #testing

July 20, 2017

Processing ERB files with Rails Webpacker

July 18, 2017

Rails UJS outside the asset pipeline/with modules

#javascript #ruby-on-rails

July 17, 2017

Canonical URLs for Laravel

July 17, 2017

Testing Rails redirect_back with RSpec

#rspec #ruby-on-rails

July 16, 2017

Laravel scheduler on Heroku

#heroku #laravel

July 15, 2017

Building relations with Laravel model factories

July 14, 2017

Request specs for Rack::Deflate

#rspec #ruby #ruby-on-rails

July 13, 2017

Rails Webpacker and Sass undefined variable error

#javascript #ruby-on-rails #webpacker

July 12, 2017

Redirecting to HTTPS and/or www with Laravel

July 11, 2017

Google Analytics with Turbolinks 5

March 29, 2017

Multiple database read/write connections in Laravel

February 28, 2017

Using Laravel Mix on Heroku

#heroku #javascript #mix

February 5, 2017

Changing the base URI with Laravel 5.4 testing

#laravel #laravel-5 #php #testing

December 13, 2016

Using Laravel (and Laravel Elixir) on Heroku

December 12, 2016

Using jQuery and plugins with Browserify/Webpack

December 5, 2016

Speed up your Laravel tests by 70% with this one simple trick

#laravel #php #phpunit

December 3, 2016

Asserting that an Eloquent model soft deletes

#laravel #php #phpunit #testing

September 21, 2016

Nested route model binding in Laravel

September 13, 2016

Disabling Laravel Scout in test environment

#laravel #scout

September 13, 2016

Restricting models from a Laravel Scout index

#laravel #scout

September 4, 2016

Testing pages that don't work in Laravel

#laravel #php #testing

August 11, 2016

Escape string interpolation in ES6

#javascript #vue-js

August 9, 2016

Mounting a Vue instance to a DOM element

#javascript #vue-js

August 2, 2016

Flux with CoffeeScript

#coffeescript #javascript

July 17, 2016

Versioning all assets with Laravel Elixir

#elixir #laravel

July 16, 2016

Runing a single test case in PHPUnit

July 15, 2016

Comparing model equality in Laravel

July 14, 2016

Gzip static assets in Phoenix

#elixir #phoenix

January 22, 2016

Using Whoops 2.0 with Laravel 5.2

#laravel #laravel-5

December 31, 2015

Using Laravel Elixir to version image assets

#elixir #laravel

October 6, 2015

Non-recreatable iOS crashes for majority of app sessions

#ios #swift #xcode

October 6, 2015

EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION fetching CoreData's NSManagedObjectModel

#coredata #ios #swift #xcode

July 30, 2015

"Too many connections" using PHPUnit for testing Laravel 5.1

#laravel-5 #php #phpunit #testing

July 30, 2015

Prevent Laravel Forge servers losing track of time

#aws #forge #laravel

June 17, 2015

Using Fractal with Laravel and Lumen

#laravel #lumen #php

June 17, 2015

Timezones in Lumen

May 27, 2015

Failing functional tests in Lumen

May 21, 2015

Using Redis with Lumen

May 12, 2015

Fun facts about dd()

#laravel #php #phpunit

April 9, 2015

Swift: Closure parameter prior to parameters with default arguments will not be treated as a trailing closure

March 27, 2015

Bringing the remember() method back to Laravel 5

#laravel #laravel-5 #php

March 27, 2015

Catching Laravel 5 exceptions with Sentry (and Raven)

#laravel #laravel-5 #php #sentry

March 21, 2015

[LogicException] Unable to prepare route for serialization. Uses Closure.

#laravel #laravel-5 #php

March 21, 2015

Upgrading to Laravel 5

#laravel #laravel-5 #php

March 21, 2015

Handling forbidden form requests in Laravel 5

#laravel #laravel-5 #php

March 21, 2015

Using unique rule IDs in Laravel FormRequests

#laravel #laravel-5 #php

March 21, 2015

Adding a helpers file in Laravel 5

#laravel #laravel-5 #php

March 21, 2015

Redirects with Laravel FormRequests

#laravel #laravel-5 #php

March 21, 2015

UrlRoutable in Laravel 5

#laravel #laravel-5 #php

February 5, 2015

Redirect trailing slashes in Laravel 5

#laravel #laravel-5 #php

January 23, 2015

Deploying Laravel with Envoy

#envoy #laravel

January 22, 2015

Laravel splat routes

January 19, 2015

Toggle Homestead and production bookmarklet

#homestead #laravel

January 15, 2015

Handling 404 and other HTTP errors in Laravel 5

#laravel #laravel-5

January 14, 2015

Multiple read-only database slaves in Laravel

#aws #laravel #mysql #postgresql

December 22, 2014

Dependency injection in Laravel commands

December 22, 2014

Laravel controller testing with TestDummy 2

#laravel #php #phpunit #testing

October 24, 2014

InvalidArgumentException: Cannot redirect to an empty URL in Laravel

#laravel #php #phpunit #testing

October 24, 2014

Customising Laravel error pages

September 15, 2014

New Blade syntax in Laravel 5.0

September 12, 2014

Benchmarking tests in Homestead

#homestead #laravel #php #phpunit #testing

September 10, 2014

Testing with Laravel route filters

#laravel #php #phpunit #testing

September 9, 2014

Eloquent model events only trigger once in tests

#laravel #php #phpunit #testing

September 9, 2014

Testing Laravel with PHPUnit

#circleci #laravel #php #phpunit #testing

September 7, 2014

Laravel migrate and seed in one command

September 7, 2014

Remove or add www. with nginx

September 7, 2014

Getting started with Laravel on AWS

#aws #forge #laravel #php

September 7, 2014

Using debugger-ruby_core_source fails to build native gem extension

#bundler #ruby #ruby-on-rails

September 2, 2014

Partial conventions in Laravel

September 2, 2014

Named route conventions in Laravel

September 1, 2014

Create additional databases in Laravel Homestead

#laravel #mysql #postgresql

August 25, 2014

Skipping controller filters in Laravel 4

August 14, 2014

CSRF protection on POST, PATCH, PUT and DELETE request in Laravel

#csrf #laravel #php

August 12, 2014

Using Rails UJS in Laravel 4 (or any other framework)

#javascript #laravel #ruby-on-rails

August 5, 2014

Easily using environment variables with Laravel

#git #laravel #php

August 4, 2014

Model binding with Laravel resources

July 24, 2014

Using Sentry for log tracking with Laravel

#composer #php #sentry

July 15, 2014

Laravel's new @forelse construct

July 2, 2014

Laravel package config/assets with PSR-4

June 7, 2014

Model validation in Laravel using traits

May 21, 2014

Dynamic where clauses and find methods in Eloquent (Laravel 4)

May 6, 2014

"Too many connections" using PHPUnit for testing Laravel 4 on CircleCI

#circleci #laravel #testing

May 3, 2014

Running Laravel through Continuous Integration (CI) using CircleCI

#circleci #laravel #testing

May 2, 2014

Getting Facebook friends with the Graph API v2.0

April 28, 2014

Assert view template used in Laravel 4

#laravel #phpunit #testing

April 8, 2014

Simple Laravel 4 model auto-validation

March 19, 2014

Custom targeting with DoubleClick (DFP)

#google #laravel #php

March 13, 2014

Consistent caching in Laravel

March 13, 2014

Google Sitemaps with Laravel 4

March 12, 2014

Laravel 4 on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

#aws #laravel #php

March 8, 2014

Getting current routes, controllers and action names in Laravel 4

March 5, 2014

Managing memory issues in Laravel 4 with large queries

March 2, 2014

Autologin package for Laravel 4

February 7, 2014

Disabling just created_at or updated_at in a Laravel model

January 23, 2014

Daily log files in Laravel 4

January 17, 2014

Laravel 4: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method Illuminate\Foundation\Application::registerCoreContainerAliases()

January 12, 2014

Laravel 4 intended redirect with named route

December 22, 2013

Laravel 4 Model Validation Trait

December 16, 2013

Laravel 4.1 Blade "if isset" shorthand

December 6, 2013

New collection methods in Laravel 4.1

December 4, 2013

Route::currentRouteName() in Laravel 4.1

December 2, 2013

Laravel 4.1 upgrade guide

November 30, 2013

Greater than and less than validation in Laravel 4

November 28, 2013

Getting "time ago" from an Eloquent model

November 26, 2013

Merging, diffing and intersecting Eloquent collections

November 24, 2013

Diffing Eloquent collections in Laravel 4

November 6, 2013

Installing Rails on Mac OS X

#osx #ruby-on-rails

November 4, 2013

Xcode Command Line Tools on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

October 23, 2013

How to solve PHPUnit exiting without errors

#phpunit #testing

October 11, 2013

@each in Laravel Blade

October 3, 2013

Using lists() in Laravel with custom attribute accessors

October 1, 2013

A different kind of asset pipeline for Laravel

September 29, 2013

Handy Laravel Redirect methods

September 27, 2013

Handy Laravel select helpers for ranges, years and months

September 25, 2013

Escaping variables in raw SQL queries in Laravel 4

September 13, 2013

Initialise Angular model using the initial value

#angular #laravel

September 11, 2013

Composer update in Laravel with services providers

#composer #laravel #php

August 17, 2013

Getting the controller and action in Laravel 4

#codeigniter #laravel #php

August 15, 2013

Bootstrap 3 now compiles in lessphp

#bootstrap #laravel

August 13, 2013

Private functions in Sails.js

August 11, 2013

Laravel redirect to intended location after login

August 9, 2013

Bootstrap 3 pagination in Laravel 4

#bootstrap #laravel

August 7, 2013

Laravel 4 requires PHP 5.3+

August 5, 2013

Timezones in Laravel 4

August 3, 2013

Timetable Exchange hits 1,000 users in a single day

August 1, 2013

Angular templating with Laravel Blade templating

#angular #laravel

July 30, 2013

CodeIgniter Bcrypt Library

#codeigniter #php

July 28, 2013

CodeIgniter Breadcrumb Library

#codeigniter #php

July 26, 2013

Switching from CodeIgniter to Laravel

#codeigniter #laravel #ruby-on-rails

July 24, 2013

Using Bootstrap LESS with Basset

#bootstrap #laravel #less

July 22, 2013

Laravel 4, the fast way

#composer #laravel #media-temple

July 20, 2013

Installing Composer and Laravel 4 on Media Temple (gs)

#composer #laravel #media-temple

July 18, 2013

Why Laravel?

#codeigniter #composer #laravel #php