Tag: Ruby on Rails

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski brushes up your knowlege of ActiveRecord associations in Rails. This review is excellent and will certainly teach you something new.

Nick Sutterer, author of the Trailblazer framework, writes a deeper post on using the Cells gem to improve the Rails view layer.

Kingsley Silas dives deep into the basics of routing in Rails. Understand how URLs are mapped and some of the more obscure ways to set routes in Rails

Devdatta Kane writes this straightforward tutorial on using jXLS and Rails to provide Excel reporting to your users. 

Devdatta Kane defines JSON Web Tokens and shows how to use JWT authentication in Rails with Devise.

Ilya Bordrov-Krukowski pens this tutorial on using the Geocoder gem with Rails. Learn how to find addresses, use maps, and locate coordinates in your app.

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski shows you how to speed up your app performance by demonstrating all the ways to cache in Rails.

Nick Sutterer, the author of Cells and Trailblazer, introduces Cells and how it makes Rails views better. Much better.

Kingsley Silas writes this Ruby on Rails tutorial about file uploads with Shrine. Shrine is an excellent file uploading toolkit for Ruby.

Ilya Bordrov-Krukowski shows you how to accept and process a zip archive, as well as send one to your users.

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski goes through some of the "other" things changing in Rails 5. New classes, configuration options, and deprecations all make this list.

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Kinsley Silas quickly runs through how to enable file uploads in your Rails app with Refile.

Hendra Uzia talks about using database triggers in Rails, the pros and cons, and how to use the HairTrigger gem to implement them.

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski gets a bit more advanced with Doorkeeper, securing the OAuth clients, creating a custom strategy, and customizing the views.

Kingsley Silas runs throw a quick tutorial on adding Google ReCAPTCHA to your Rails application. He includes Devise integration as well. Very useful.

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski continues the journey through Rails authentication and authorization options with this tutorial on how to get started with Doorkeeper.

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Kingsley Silas walks through a real Rails setup with RSpec. Learn some of the first best practices to kick start your Rails testing with RSpec.

Jesse Herrick shows you Maxitest and how it enhances TDD with Minitest. Maxitest makes your tests a bit more readable and easier to use. Check it out.

Hendra Uzia integrates the Jade Template engine into Rails, resulting in cleaner template syntax. Hendra also points out some gotchas for taken this route.

Vinoth builds a simple RSS reader using Rails. Missing Google Reader? Start making your own replacement with this tutorial.

Kingsley Silas introduces you to Camaleon CMS, a content management system based on Ruby on Rails 4. Learn how to make your next site with Camaleon.

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski introduces you to Raygun, a great error reporting and user monitoring service. Do the right thing for your users and read this.

Vinoth shows you how to make autocompletion awesome using trigram search functionality in Rails and PostgreSQL.

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This is the part 2 of Getting Started with Rails 3, by the author Darcy Laycock. In this part, we're going to create the Controller for our application.