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Integrating Spree In Rails 3.1 Application
Spree is a complete open source e-commerce solution built with Ruby on Rails. It was originally developed by Sean Schofield and is now maintained by a dedicated core team. You can find out more by visiting the Spree e-commerce project page. Read more…
Christmas Tree in 140 chars of Ruby
A Christmas tree in 140 chars of Ruby. Here is the tweet
tty-progressbar v0.4.0 released
tty-progressbar improves usability by offering current= and ratio= methods for setting progress to given value or percentage. Enjoy!
Handling Security Issues In Open Source Projects
How to handle security vulnerabilities in your open source project.
Planet Jekyll - All the News About the Static Site Generator in Ruby - New Feeds Welcome
I’ve setup Planet Jekyll - a public news site (feed reader/aggregator) for Jekyll - the static site generator in Ruby (that also powers GitHub Pages). The planet feed list is a plain text file on GitHub, that is, jekyll.ini. You’re welcome to add new feeds or suggest new sub planet sites (moons?). Planet Jekyll itself is powered by the pluto gem. Happy Planet. Happy Festivus. Merry Christmas. Seasons Greetings. Cheers
Updating to Rails 4.2
I’ve written an article on Updating to Rails 4.2 which shows to install and manage multiple versions of Rails using RVM.
A very first simple blog written in Lotus
Everybody loves blog, I mean implementing a blog when trying out a new framework. If you have not watched the Rails in 15min, then you should google it. Read more
How to add basic auth to Lotus app
Comes the release 0.2.0 of Lotus Framework comes the questions on how to add authentication to Lotus app. For whom who are seeking something similar to http_basic_authenticate_with of Rails, I wrote a short tutorial on how to do so with Lotus.
How to decide between conflicting Rails advice
The Rails community is full of conflicting advice. Do you use Minitest or RSpec? Do your plain Ruby objects go in app/models, app/classes, or lib/? If more experienced devs constantly argue about these things, what hope do you have of deciding which advice to follow?
Lotus v0.2.0 is out!
This has been a great year for <href=”http://lotusrb.org”>Lotus</a>. It went from a tiny side project to one of the most appreciated and promising web frameworks for Ruby. Read more
Enforcing encapsulation with East-oriented code
I recently wrote about how to ensure that your objects have the right responsibilities and enforce a Tell, Don’t Ask approach.
Migrating existing session cookies while upgrading to Rails 4.1 and above
Read about how to migrate existing session cookies to Rails 4.1 and above safely .
Ruby on Rails Consulting Services- RailsCarma
We provide end to end Ruby on Rails consulting to companies around the globe. We support our clients with tools and techniques and innovative approaches to solve mission critical business problems. Our mission is to revolutionize the process involved in solving the strategic or routine IT problems that effect business growth. Read more
5 Early Lessons from Rapid, High Availability Scaling with Rails
At Ello, we were blindsided by the amount of traffic we were receiving. Right time, right place, I guess. One week, we’re seeing a few thousand daily sessions. The following week, a few million. This insurgence of users meant the software we built was contorted in directions we never thought possible. Read more
Dynamic Heroku Unicorn Worker Count
Optimize the number of unicorn workers within each of your Heroku environments. Read more
Why Hackathons Are Always a Good Idea
A bunch of open source, mostly Ruby on Rails apps, our team developed during a single day internal hackathon. Feel free to share & contribute! :Why Hackathons Are Always a Good Idea.
search_cop v1.0.4 is out
I just released v1.0.4 of search_cop to fix a another issue regarding Rails 4.2. Read more
Ruby on Rails Development – How To Do it Agile?
Ruby on Rails Development – How To Do it Agile? Read more
Security Fix and Concerns
ror_ecommerce had its first security announcement. Once this announcement became public, I have become very concerned about how to make these announcements and think the community needs to find a better way.
Get rid of digest errors in Angular applications with memoization
Check out my post/a> about how to fix Error: 10 $digest() iterations reached. Aborting! in your Angular applications.
tty-progressbar v0.3.0 released
The newest tty-progressbar offers automatic resizing, optimisation of formatting tokens, easier configuration and ability to clear progress once finished. Please give it a whirl!
jekyll-planet gem - Add Articles, Blogs to Your Site via Web Feeds (and Planet Pluto)
Hello, the jekyll-planet gem lets you generate Jekyll posts for your static site using the Planet Pluto machinery. Add articles or blog posts syndicated via web feed to your site in three steps: Step 1: Use a Planet Pluto configuration e.g. planet.ini to build your local planet.db SQLite feed cache. Step 2: Generate planet posts for Jekyll (from the planet.db cache) using the jekyll-planet Ruby script. Step 3: Use Jekyll as usual to build your site. That’s it. Happy Planet. Cheers.
Add Twitter cards to your Rails site with metamagic
Here’s all you need to add Twitter cards to your Rails site, using the metamagic gem.
Any gem as standalone binary that works with any ruby -- rubinjam
Rubinjam any gem (w/o native ext) into a binary curl https://rubinjam.herokuapp.com/pack/rake > rake && chmod +x rake && ./rake –version