Tag Archives: Ruby On Rails
Country Seed Data for your Rails App
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' [...]
Scaling a Rails Application – Thinking About the Full Stack
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
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Ruby on Rails – Skipping validations based on where object is created
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 [...]
Posted in Software Also tagged active-record, rubyonrails, skipping-validations, validations 6 Comments
Logging your Rails model (the easy way)
In one of my Rails applications, I have some pretty heavy tasks in my models. I decided to log to different files for two of my models so that I can easily make sure these tasks are performed correctly without going through my application log. I also call some of my model methods [...]
Gig&Tell
Gig&Tell is a service I created to help bands market themselves with minimal effort. It is currently in Alpha testing mode and I will provide more information about the service soon.
Posted in portfolio Also tagged ActionScript3, Ajax, apache, Facebook API, flex, javascript, linux, MySQL, Photoshop, SQLite, Twitter API, XHTML/CSS, XML 1 Comment
Get College Credit
I helped Get College Credit fix some critical issues with their Facebook application.
Rails Authentication with Devise and CanCan – Customizing Devise Controllers