Ruby on Rails Outsourcing

Getting started with Pundit

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:52:45 GMT

What is Pundit? Pundit is a gem that provides set of helpers to build a simple, robust and scaleable authorization system

Make your Rails development faster with Zeus

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Nothing is perfect and even a great framework like Ruby on Rails has its weak parts, and one of those is speed. When your application starts growing and you start adding gems, it starts to take really long to start up, be it the server, console or just running a single spec.

Adding user rating feature using letsrate

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT

To engage your site user is to make your web application interactive. Interactive could lead to many things. For example: allow your user to rate your content.

Manage your seed data using Seedbank

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:24:28 GMT

Seedbank gives you a convention for splitting off seeds into multiple files, it allows you to have seeds for different environments, and it gives you some additional rake tasks so you can load just one seed file if you need it , so you can generate a bunch of test data for your development database but not have it pollute your production database. Since the Rails core team were good enough to give us rake db:setup it would be rude not to use it.

MailCatcher - a dead simple SMTP service for your development environment

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT

MailCatcher is a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. I am use MailCatcher will improve your productivity when you need to debug your email related feature.

Getting started with Active Admin - Part 2

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Let us continue what have been completed on part 1. In this post we will explore Active Admin feature even more. We Will change the site title, add more field to Post model, using scope, using status_tag, adding related posts links on Post show page and lastly, improving our dashboard.

Getting started with Active Admin - Part 1

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Creating an administration interface for a project can be a tedious task. Lucky for Rails developers there are Active Admin, a framework for creating administration style interfaces.

Getting started with Sorcery

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Sorcery is an autentication library for Rails 3. Compared to other library in the same category, Sorcery does not generates code for your MVC. And that is the first thing that make me want to try this lib.

How to test external API

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Using external API as a data source is a common use case in any modern web app. This could be a problem when we start to testing. Any test on the part that use the data source must make request to the actual external API.

Using Sphinx as search server

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:41:18 GMT

This post should get you started to use Sphinx on your Rails application. I only try to cover some of core topics of Sphinx that is Indexing and Searching.