I had this interesting use case come up. We have a multi-tenant app that has an Organization model. An Organization has many BarcodeItem. Originally, the query was direct: We only wanted an instance of Organization to return the barcode_items that … Continued
Say you’re building a Rails application and want to use Facebook with Omniauth via Devise. You’ve already got that working and have your Facebook API key registered and all that. But maybe you want to see how it works and … Continued
Fresh Ruby on Rails installations will default with support for SQLite3, which is a very fast database solution right out of the box. As you expand your app, though, you will inevitably encounter problems (most often, for me, it’s concurrency … Continued
This a modernized update to a previous post I wrote on here, about doing Ruby 1.9 & Rails 3. There are two ways you can go with Ruby, right now. Canonical is finally starting to get with the program with … Continued
Many hosting resellers (sadly, even mine) are behind the times on Rails. If you aren’t a Rails developer, it may not seem like a big deal to not upgrade from Rails2 to Rails3 — but believe you me, it is hugely … Continued
Install the Ruby 1.9.1 (which is actually 1.9.3, presently) package: aaron@naegleria:~$ sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev You will also need to remove all packages that use Ruby 1.8.x. The easiest way to do this is to just use synaptic, search for … Continued
I’ve been working on a Rails app that needs to integrate with an existing userbase found in a WordPress installation. One problem I’ve encountered is that her main website that manages subscriptions and users is in WordPress. Users will register … Continued