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Rewards
Cash flow and equity Purchase price tends to be relatively low compared to profits If you buy a business for $10.25m with $2.5m profits that gives you a 25% annual return Let's say closing costs ar...
Risks
Risks Lower revenue after purchase loss of customers to competitors tech you have invested in crashes unable to pay employees that depend on you won't have a familiar peer group at work Mitigate yo...
Chapter 1: The opportunity
Buy a business, right now, and run it as a CEO Flexibility to run it in a way that suits you Typically purchased with a combination of loans from banks and equity from investors Upsides are profits...
Pessimistic locking in Rails
https://dev.to/nodefiend/rails-pessimistic-locking-45ak Locking::Pessimistic provides support for row-level locking ruby Account.lock.find(1) Start a transaction and lock at the same time by calli...
Set up CORS on Amazon S3
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/user-guide/add-cors-configuration.html
Use different credit cards for different Heroku apps
https://help.heroku.com/T8Q2N4SV/how-do-i-manage-billing-multiple-clients-with-separate-apps
Convert local master into a branch
If you want to convert a local master branch (that is ahead of remote) into a branch bash git checkout master git branch experiment git reset --hard heroku/master git checkout experiment
Sidekiq
bash require 'sidekiq/api' https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12683222/are-there-console-commands-to-look-at-whats-in-the-queue-and-to-clear-the-queue ```yml :verbose: false :concurrency: 15 :max...
Create a random password in Rails
ruby SecureRandom.alphanumeric
Compared to Remote schooling
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/style/wild-and-free-home-school.html
Run a Rails server on https and localhost
openssl req -x509 -sha256 -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -days 365 -keyout localhost.key -out localhost.crt then rails s -b 'ssl://localhost:3000?key=localhost.key&cert=localhost.crt' This will give y...
Foreign exchange accounting
https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/foreign-exchange-accounting.html
Modeling double entry accounting in a relational database
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59432964/relational-data-model-for-double-entry-accounting https://medium.com/@RobertKhou/double-entry-accounting-in-a-relational-database-2b7838a5d7f8 https://c...
Rails Multi Environment Credentials
I ended up deleting master.key and credentials.yml.enc since I'd rather use development and production specific keys and credentials per below bash EDITOR="mate --wait" bin/rails credentials:edit -...
Pass persisted params in a Rails form
If the params you want to persist are state and order ruby <% request.params.slice('state', 'order').each do |key, value| %> <%= hidden_field_tag key, value %> <% end %>
Find a process and kill it in terminal
% ps aux | grep ruby lukeko 29806 0.0 0.0 4277500 696 s000 S+ 6:49PM 0:00.00 <process you don't want> % kill -9 29806
Actiontext
Go to https://guides.rubyonrails.org/actiontextoverview.html Only extra things left to do is @import "trix/dist/trix";
Add Stripe to a Rails app
https://courses.gorails.com/payments-with-rails-master-class https://rubygems.org/gems/stripe
Checkout one from from a previous commit
git checkout c96a579 app/assets/stylesheets/menu.scss