As regular readers of this blog know, I am in the process of trying to back up Google Apps accounts to Dovecot. Well I have finally found my solution. Not only does it work, but its in Ruby. First thing that you’ll need to do is grab yourself a copy of Larch. I did this …
I’ve been wanting to find a way to use drop down menus for countries and their states when they exist. But keeping a list on my own would have been a huge pain in the ass. So rather reinvent the wheel, I found the Carmen plugin for Rails. All I have to do is keep …
In part 1 of this series, we discussed the base models, controller, database migrations necessary to get this project off the ground. Now we are going to continue with this functionality Let’s take a look at what needs to go into the models to support this. If you have a model that uses a slug …
It you want to add the ability to bookmark pages in your Rails application, its actually a fairly straightforward thing to do. You can even do them in AJAX. There may be better ways to do this, but this way is somewhat abstract and it works for me, so hopefully it can work for you …
There doesn’t seem a lot of documentation or examples about parsing ini files in Ruby. There are definitely shortcut ways to do it and I could always write my own methods, but why reinvent the wheel when there are gems? So start out by simply installing the inifile gem. 12345beacon:~ elubow$ sudo gem install inifile …
As I have spent the last few weeks/months learning Ruby and Rails, I have grown to love it more and more. The ease of use and the high learning curve make is fantastic for people like me who aren’t developers by nature. I have recently come across a scenario in Rails that there is not …
Using Ruby on Rails is all about what people find to be common uses. These items then become part of the core system. An example of this is counter_cache. For more information on this, I suggest checking out the Railscast on it here. A little more of an edge case is if you want a …
