Author Archives: Tony
Deduping join data in ruby based on multiple attributes
In the past I created an app using Rails built in HABTM and no unique index on the join tables. I’m more into the has_many :through choice today.
In order to migrate my data with a unqiue index, I had a bunch of de-duping to do. It was a bit trickier than [...]
Posted in Software Tagged de-duplication, habtm, removing duplicates, ruby, Ruby On Rails, unique index Comments closed
More cool stuff with ruby’s tap method
I had to write up a quick data processor at work today and I wanted a decent output at the end of execution. The ruby tap method came in handy here.
class AssetDeliveryPopulater
def self.populate
results_text = []
asset_secrets_count, asset_delivery_count, asset_not_found_count, asset_delivery_creation_errors = 0,0,0,0
Email.all.tap{|emails| [...]
Tap before you squash
Tap is a pretty awesome ruby method I recently discovered.
Let’s say I have the following request:
post '/api/v1/users/',
params.merge(:sig =>
Authentication.calculate(TestAuthData.secret_access_key,params.to_query)
).to_json
I realize [...]
RSpec 2, Sinatra and Mongoid example
I spent yesterday coding a very abbreviated version of an authentication service that uses Sinatra, Mongoid and RSpec 2. It took more than a couple hours because there are so many outdated code samples on the web that just don’t work. I put my code up on github for people to see. [...]
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Posted in portfolio Tagged Ajax, apache, Conduit, CSS, Facebook API, javascript, jquery, linux, MySQL, passenger, Ruby On Rails, XHTML Comments closed
Recursive custom to_json in Ruby for arrays of objects or nested objects