Weeknotes vol. 8: Active Storage and shipping baby no. 6

Originally published at betterthangood.xyz on April 25, 2025

I had two (big) tasks this week (which as per usual I’m writing after the fact):

1. Get file uploads integrated into the app with Active Storage
2. Bring my beautiful wife to the hospital on Friday to ship baby no. 6

I’ll stick to the nerdy stuff for this post though.

There’s nothing not to love about Rails, as my experience with Active Storage further confirmed. Installation is a breeze.

• bin/rails active_storage:install

• bin/rails db:migrate

• class Thought < ApplicationRecord
    has_one_attached :file
  end
  

• Make some updates to your form(s)
• Done

And then there’s all the little app specific details, and that’s what took the week.

Phil finished the Web/Mac app design, and so the next few weeks (after the break with baby) will be spent focused on production-ready HTML and CSS, which I’m very excited about. This is where my original love for the internet started and I’m excited to see what’s changed since the last time I was serious about it (probably everything).