Chris Gmyr

@cmgmyr

Staff Engineer @ Curology & TrianglePHP Co-organizer

Cary, NCJoined September 2017

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Husband, dad, & grilling aficionado. Loves Laravel & coffee. Staff Engineer @ Curology, and TrianglePHP Co-organizer

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Building a YNAB CLI in Laravel

I've been using You Need a Budget (YNAB) since 2019 and love it. I'm in the budget daily, entering transactions, tinkering, and ensuring my family is on track with our financial goals and current priorities. However, as the transactions and payees pi...

Jan 31, 20259 min read

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Colocating Tests in Laravel

In a typical Laravel application, tests are housed in the /Tests directory and spread across /Tests/Feature and /Tests/Unit, which mimics the structure within the app/ directory. While this is a great starting point for apps, it quickly breaks down w...

Sep 1, 20244 min read

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Improve Your Productivity While Utilizing Laravel Mocks

Laravel has numerous test helpers and mocks within the framework, which is fantastic. However, I see other engineers getting caught up on debugging issues when they arise. The Laravel docs show this as an example Queue::assertPushed(function (ShipOrd...

Sep 26, 20232 min read

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Tips, Tricks, and Good Practices with Laravel's Eloquent

This is a talk I gave at TrianglePHP on Aug 16, 2018. We'll learn how Eloquent functions on the basic levels and continue through some more well-known methods and some possibly lesser-known ones. Then we'll finish with some more advanced ideas and te...

Aug 17, 201810 min read

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Deploying Specific Branches with Laravel, CircleCI, and Envoyer

A few weeks ago I was trying to update a side project's CircleCI config from version 1 to version 2 since they are depreciating V1 in August 2018. In the process, I was curious how I could deploy specific branches to specific environments in Laravel'...

Apr 6, 20183 min read

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Improve Your Productivity While Utilizing Laravel Mocks

Tips, Tricks, and Good Practices with Laravel's Eloquent

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Chris Gmyr's blogs

Recently published

Building a YNAB CLI in Laravel

Colocating Tests in Laravel

Improve Your Productivity While Utilizing Laravel Mocks

Tips, Tricks, and Good Practices with Laravel's Eloquent

Deploying Specific Branches with Laravel, CircleCI, and Envoyer