Journal Entries

Laravel Nova

1. Mon Jul 8

   • In this example the path has our directory and they're stored in a format like storage/app/public/images/HELL/originalFileName.extension. The image column saves only the name as it already appears.
   • The biggest takeaway from this is the usage $this->model()->path. At a resource level we can get the model columns used because it's defined as $this->model. Because we're on the detail view the path in this case is filled in. We don't need methods that include the models.

   • This is one of the biggest "aha!" moments with Nova where the docs aren't very intuitive nor do they promote this in any meaningful way in the examples I've seen.

     Image::make('Header Image', 'image')
         ->disk('public')
         ->store(function (Request $request, \App\Models\Bucket $model) {
             $path = "images/{$model->path}";
             $file = $request->image->storeAs($path, $request->image->getClientOriginalName(), 'public');
             return [
                 'image' => $request->image->getClientOriginalName(),
             ];
         })
         ->prunable()
         ->preview(function ($image, $disk) {
             return $image ? \Storage::disk($disk)->url("images/{$this->model()->path}/$image") : null;
         })
         ->thumbnail(function ($image, $disk) {
             return $image ? \Storage::disk($disk)->url("images/{$this->model()->path}/$image") : null;
         }),

2. Tue Jul 9

   • In this example we're creating a read-only path column when the model is first created. Initially I looked to append the column ID but this is not possible without removing the image upload on the create form.
   • The getPathAttribute() essentially creates our path value in the same way from our slug and it's only used during the create model upload.

   • This is sleight of hand at its finest, the real path column is what we're looking for but we're hacking in functionality to work at the create form level, bypassing the need to restrict this to only during edits.

     public function getPathAttribute()
     {
         $path = (array_has($this->attributes, 'path') && $this->attributes['path']) ? $this->attributes['path'] : null;
         // We only care to calculate the path in the same manner as our creating method when the model is first used
         if ($path === null) {
             $slug = (array_has($this->attributes, 'slug') && $this->attributes['slug']) ? static::stripSpecialCharacters($this->attributes['slug']) : null;
             return $slug;
         }
         return $path;
     }
     
     protected static function boot()
     {
         parent::boot();
     
         static::created(function(Bucket $bucket) {
             $bucket->path = static::stripSpecialCharacters($bucket->slug);
             $bucket->save();
         });
     }

3. Wed Jul 10

   • Redis, specifically Horizon troubleshooting

   • Filter the specific keys to look for:

     > keys horizon:queue*
     1) "horizon:queues:orders:transfer:reserved"
     2) "horizon:queue:orders:transform"
     3) "horizon:queue:orders:transfer"
     4) "horizon:queues:orders:transfer"

   • Get the type of our keys:

     > type "horizon:queues:orders:transfer:reserved"
     zset
     
     > type "horizon:queue:orders:transform"
     hash
     
     > type "horizon:queue:orders:transfer"
     hash
     
     > type "horizon:queues:orders:transfer"
     list
     
     > type "horizon:job:App\\Jobs\\PendingOrderTransformJob"
     hash
     
     > type "horizon:job:App\\Jobs\\PendingOrderTransferJob"
     hash

   • Look at the values for the specific keys:

     > zrange "horizon:queues:orders:transfer:reserved" 0 2 WITHSCORES
     1) "{\"type\":\"job\",\"timeout\":null,\"tags\":[\"App\\\\Model\\\\PendingOrderStatus:1258\"],\"id\":\"2520\",\"data\":{\"command\":\"O:32:\\\"App\\\\Jobs\\\\PendingOrderTransferJob\\\":8:{s:9:\\\"\\u0000*\\u0000status\\\";O:45:\\\"Illuminate\\\\Contracts\\\\Database\\\\ModelIdentifier\\\":3:{s:5:\\\"class\\\";s:28:\\\"App\\\\Model\\\\PendingOrderStatus\\\";s:2:\\\"id\\\";i:1258;s:10:\\\"connection\\\";s:5:\\\"mysql\\\";}s:6:\\\"\\u0000*\\u0000job\\\";N;s:10:\\\"connection\\\";s:13:\\\"redis:horizon\\\";s:5:\\\"queue\\\";s:15:\\\"orders:transfer\\\";s:15:\\\"chainConnection\\\";N;s:10:\\\"chainQueue\\\";N;s:5:\\\"delay\\\";N;s:7:\\\"chained\\\";a:0:{}}\",\"commandName\":\"App\\\\Jobs\\\\PendingOrderTransferJob\"},\"displayName\":\"App\\\\Jobs\\\\PendingOrderTransferJob\",\"timeoutAt\":1562789478,\"pushedAt\":\"1562787678.5943\",\"maxTries\":null,\"job\":\"Illuminate\\\\Queue\\\\CallQueuedHandler@call\",\"attempts\":3}"
     2) "1562788306"
     
     > hgetall "horizon:queue:orders:transfer"
     1) "throughput"
     2) "52"
     3) "runtime"
     4) "5623.0248076923099"
     
     > lrange "horizon:queues:orders:transfer" 0 99
     ...
     47) "{\"type\":\"job\",\"timeout\":null,\"tags\":[\"App\\\\Model\\\\PendingOrderStatus:1280\"],\"id\":\"2564\",\"data\":{\"command\":\"O:32:\\\"App\\\\Jobs\\\\PendingOrderTransferJob\\\":8:{s:9:\\\"\\u0000*\\u0000status\\\";O:45:\\\"Illuminate\\\\Contracts\\\\Database\\\\ModelIdentifier\\\":3:{s:5:\\\"class\\\";s:28:\\\"App\\\\Model\\\\PendingOrderStatus\\\";s:2:\\\"id\\\";i:1280;s:10:\\\"connection\\\";s:5:\\\"mysql\\\";}s:6:\\\"\\u0000*\\u0000job\\\";N;s:10:\\\"connection\\\";s:13:\\\"redis:horizon\\\";s:5:\\\"queue\\\";s:15:\\\"orders:transfer\\\";s:15:\\\"chainConnection\\\";N;s:10:\\\"chainQueue\\\";N;s:5:\\\"delay\\\";N;s:7:\\\"chained\\\";a:0:{}}\",\"commandName\":\"App\\\\Jobs\\\\PendingOrderTransferJob\"},\"displayName\":\"App\\\\Jobs\\\\PendingOrderTransferJob\",\"timeoutAt\":1562789480,\"pushedAt\":\"1562787680.4057\",\"maxTries\":null,\"job\":\"Illuminate\\\\Queue\\\\CallQueuedHandler@call\",\"attempts\":3}"
     
     > hgetall "horizon:job:App\\Jobs\\PendingOrderTransferJob"
     1) "throughput"
     2) "7"
     3) "runtime"
     4) "7738.0300000000007"

   • Dump our entire key list (the -n option specifies the database):

     > redis-cli -n 3 keys "*" > horizon.keys
     
     horizon:snapshot:job:App\\Jobs\\PendingOrderTransformJob
     horizon:supervisor:orange-business-rules-swap-f6S1:supervisor-order-transform
     horizon:job:App\\Jobs\\PendingOrderTransformJob
     horizon:failed_jobs
     horizon:snapshot:job:App\\Jobs\\PendingOrderTransferJob
     horizon:masters
     horizon:job_id
     horizon:queues:orders:transfer:reserved
     horizon:snapshot:queue:orders:transform
     horizon:supervisor:orange-business-rules-swap-f6S1:supervisor-default
     horizon:supervisor:orange-business-rules-swap-f6S1:supervisor-order-transfer
     horizon:supervisors
     horizon:recent_failed_jobs
     horizon:master:orange-business-rules-swap-f6S1
     horizon:job:App\\Jobs\\PendingOrderTransferJob
     horizon:measured_jobs
     horizon:queue:orders:transform
     horizon:measured_queues
     horizon:recent_jobs
     horizon:queue:orders:transfer
     horizon:last_snapshot_at
     horizon:monitor:time-to-clear
     horizon:snapshot:queue:orders:transfer
     horizon:metrics:snapshot
     horizon:queues:orders:transfer

   • Note: The list of keys was manually filtered by removing anything with a key like horizon:id or horizon:failed*.

4. Thu Jul 11

   • Do not use Redis::throtle() with the retryUntil() method.

     Redis::throttle($key)->allow(1)->every(60)->then(function () {
         $this->execute();
     }, function () {
         // Could not obtain lock...
         return $this->release(10);
     });
     
     /**
      * Determine the time at which the job should timeout.
      *
      * @return \DateTime
      */
     public function retryUntil()
     {
         return now()->addMinutes(60);
     }

   • The retryUntil method is utilized in getJobExpiration. It seems to be more of a timeout per queue or per job class rather than per job instance like I was expecting.

5. Fri Jul 12

   • Setting a redis override for our custom systemd configuration

     sudo systemctl edit redis-server

   • The command opens nano to an override file in /etc/systemd/system where we paste the following:

     [Service]
     ReadWriteDirectories=-/mnt/orange-business-rules/var/lib/redis

   • Now our custom directory can be saved to within redis. Without this, every time apt would update redis our service definition would be blown away. * Now we have something that will stand whenever redis is updated in the future.

Elixir Koans

1. Thu Jul 11

   • Maps

     • Map.fetch(@person, :age) returns {:ok, value}

   • MapSets

     • MapSet.size(new_set) returns an integer for the size (think array length in JavaScript)
     • MapSet.member?(@set, 3) returns a boolean
     • MapSet.new(@set, fn x -> 3 * x end) creates a new set using the function results of 3 * (each value in the set).
     • MapSet.to_list(@set) looks for brackets not braces. I confused a list with a tuple.

Laravel

1. Tue Jul 2

   • Actions in Laravel pass in a collection of models. On the index screen this could be hundreds but on the detail screen it is always exactly 1, the parent model.

   • This wasn't quite as easy to grok without attaching a debugger but this makes complete sense now.

     /**
      * Perform the action on the given models.
      *
      * @param  \Laravel\Nova\Fields\ActionFields  $fields
      * @param  \Illuminate\Support\Collection  $models
      * @return mixed
      */
     public function handle(ActionFields $fields, Collection $models)
     {
         $count = 1;
         foreach ($models as $model) {
             $count = $this->generateCodes($model->id, $model->code_type_id, $fields->number);
         }
         return Action::message("$count codes were successfully created.");
     }

Phoenix Framework

1. Sat Jun 29

   • Initial commit
   • Changes to .gitignore for VSCode integration and to remove /config/*.secret.exs. It's unclear if this was present in the earlier version of Phoenix and I weirdly need to add it. It's also possible that I just followed along with the up and running guide.
   • Added editorconfig from .editorconfig for Elixir projects · GitHub

Laravel

1. Wed June 26

   • How Laravel prevents your scheduled jobs from overlapping - Diving Laravel

     • The obr-sage-sync scheduler was broken in production due to network outages affecting Digital Ocean droplets. The sync:customers command would not execute via the scheduler because withoutOverlap() detected the command was still executing.
     • In this instance multiple copies were hung so I rebooted the machine and took a bit hunting this down. As a companion, whenever you kill any command as part of the scheduler, always clear the cache. It's a simple command that'll almost always save time trying to uncover the problem again.

Phoenix Framework

1. Fri Jun 28

   • Started over with Phoenix 1.4.8 using asdf global packages for the following:

     elixir 1.9.0 (set by /Users/jbrayton/.tool-versions)
     erlang 22.0.4 (set by /Users/jbrayton/.tool-versions)
     nodejs 12.5.0 (set by /Users/jbrayton/.tool-versions)

   • Followed Using ASDF with Elixir and Phoenix but ran into some issues with the homebrew install method.

   • Essentially, I changed the shim for node to:

     #!/usr/bin/env bash
     # asdf-plugin: nodejs 10.15.3
     # asdf-plugin: nodejs 8.11.4
     # asdf-plugin: nodejs 12.5.0
     exec $(brew --prefix asdf)/bin/asdf exec "npm" "$@"

   • The path is really /usr/local/opt/asdf/bin/asdf and seems to work for the other packages. It could be that I was trying to do a local install before a global.

Laravel

1. Mon Jun 10

   • Returning files sorted by creation time.

     $files = collect(\File::files($realDirectory))
         ->filter(function(\SplFileInfo $file) {
             return strpos($file->getFileName(), "{$this->fileName}");
         })->sortBy(function (\SplFileInfo $file) {
             return $file->getCTime();
         }, SORT_NUMERIC)->map(function (\SplFileInfo $file) {
             return [
                 'base' => $file->getBasename(),
                 'name' => $file->getFilename(),
                 'created' => $file->getCTime(),
                 'modified' => $file->getMTime(),
                 'size' => $file->getSize(),
             ];
         });

2. Fri June 14

   • Git: How to find a deleted file in the project commit history? - Stack Overflow

   • Needed to get directories from my dotfiles using yadm as the PHPStorm license was no longer active.

     • yadm log --all --full-history -- **/thefile.*
   • PHPStorm reverts the perpetual fallback license to 2018.1 when I was currently on 2019.1, annoying as everloving shit.

Elixir Koans

1. Thu Apr 18

   • Numbers

     • 2 / 2 = 1.0? Division seems to coerce to floats
     • div() returns the divisor or 2, not 2.5. It's an integer
     • rem() returns the remainder or 1, not 0.5. The .5 is dividing the remainder by 2.
     • (2 * 2.0) = 4.0 as the types coerce the result
     • Float.round(1.2) === round(1.2) == false

     • Individual digits builds an array, not count of digits.

       • i.e. Use that fancy peek feature to determine what each method is doing before blindly answering.
     • Remaining unparsable portion counts the space.
     • Integer.parse returns the unparsable part as a string ".2"
     • Float.ciel seems to round > 0 up to the next integer, even 0.25
   • Atoms

   • Tuples

     • List.delete_at is zero-based or more importantly pretty much all these methods are zero based to match array indexes
   • Lists

   • Keyword Lists koan.

     • It's interesting that it's foo: like json but the tuple reads :foo
     • {:foo , "bar"} Needs the space after :foo

MySQL

1. Mon Mar 25

   • Use MySQL JSON field in Laravel - QCode
   • Laravel/MySQL JSON documents faster lookup using generated columns - Mohamed Said

Specifically using JSON fields as virtual calculations versus setting an explicit string/integer field and filling it in that way. This way we only store the JSON and the rest is done for us.

Elixir Koans

1. Wed Mar 27

   • Strings

VSCode usage patterns

• Highlighting the method name like Integer.is_odd gives the definition (hell yes).

  • Peek reminds me of PHPStorm.

JavaScript

1. Mon Mar 18

   • javascript - What does the exclamation mark do before the function? - Stack Overflow

Elixir Koans

1. Wed Mar 20

   • Initially tried using my elixir version but ran into minor issues

     • Changes the file mix.lock due to differences in runtime.
     • Various warnings that come up in the official docker image.
   • Equalities

   • Prepped git repository for common changes and using a feature/pass_1 branch to show our first pass.

     Erlang/OTP 21 [erts-10.2.3] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe] [dtrace]
     
     Elixir 1.8.1 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 21)

Phoenix Framework

1. Mon Feb 25

   • Initial commit + changes to .gitignore for VSCode integration
   • Added editorconfig from .editorconfig for Elixir projects · GitHub
   • Added medicine page and route
   • Added scoped api/v1 routes per Routing – Phoenix v1.4.1

2. Tue Feb 26

   • Created self-signed certificate via mix phx.gen.cert

   • Added self-signed port to dev config

     • Unlike valet these self-signed certs are a major eyesore.
   • Added force_ssl configuration though I'm unsure if it's working correctly

   • Changed medicine route to a resource. Added show method and initial view.

     • It took way too long to figure out the <%= @medicine.id %> syntax. The key is the @ symbol.
     • This likely gets easier as I move through the guide.

   • Added title from layout view. Will want to make it Supple - Page dynamically as you move about the app

     • This will seem a little tricky but I suspect it's doable.