Tag Archives: Ruby On Rails

Recursive custom to_json in Ruby for arrays of objects or nested objects

By Tony | Published: March 25, 2011
Let’s say we want to customize the json template for an object: class User def to_json super(:except => [:password, :password_salt, :encrypted_password, :last_sign_in_ip, :updated_at, :current_sign_in_ip, :remember_token, :reset_password_token, :remember_created_at]) end end Apparently this is fixed in Ruby 1.9 but for now only converting an object [...]
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Deduping join data in ruby based on multiple attributes

By Tony | Published: March 23, 2011
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 [...]
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Rails Authentication with Devise and CanCan part 2 – Restful Resources for Administrators

By Tony | Published: September 29, 2010
About two months ago I wrote an article on getting started with Devise and CanCan. Since then, I’ve implemented the Devise + CanCan combo on three projects and wrote a couple specs for Ryan Bates to help improve CanCan functionality. This article will focus more on Devise with some CanCan sprinkled in there. [...]
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By Tony | Published: September 14, 2010
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Rails Authentication with Devise and CanCan – Customizing Devise Controllers

By Tony | Published: July 28, 2010
I’m tired of spending loads of time creating user authentication systems with permissions or swimming against the current to customize what’s available. There’s great open source stuff out there but until now, I haven’t gotten the full package with really easy customization. The Devise and CanCan combo for user authentication and permissions in Rails is my [...]
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Country Seed Data for your Rails App

By Tony | Published: June 15, 2010
Never go looking for basic country seed data again: [ { :name => 'Afghanistan', :iso_two_letter_code => 'AF' }, { :name => 'Aland Islands', :iso_two_letter_code => 'AX' }, { :name => 'Albania', :iso_two_letter_code => 'AL' }, { :name => 'Algeria', :iso_two_letter_code => 'DZ' }, { :name => 'American Samoa', :iso_two_letter_code => 'AS' [...]
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Scaling a Rails Application – Thinking About the Full Stack

By Tony | Published: May 6, 2010
I found a great presentation about scaling web applications that I wanted to share with the world. Enjoy! Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
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Getting FancyUpload to work with Rails

By Tony | Published: April 27, 2010
FancyUpload is a slick looking file uploader with a progress bar. However, it’s not completely obvious how to get it working with your Rails application. I searched long and hard and found 2 pretty good examples here and here. The problem is that the former only works with Amazon S3, and the [...]
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B’more on Rails synopsis – April 2010

By Tony | Published: April 14, 2010
B’more on Rails is a community of Baltimore folks who use the Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails application framework. Check out our MeetUp page. Below is a brief synopsis from our April 2010 meetup. You can also download the slides here. Bundler is great for gem management. Among other [...]
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Ruby on Rails – Skipping validations based on where object is created

By Tony | Published: December 3, 2009
I ran into an issue today where I wanted to skip validations based on where an object was created. To be more specific, I wanted to validate strictly if a “venue” was created through my web interface but I want to skip validations when importing venues. The reasoning is pretty simple, I want [...]
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