Ruby on Rails is an open-source web development framework optimized for programmer happiness and maintaining sustainable productivity. Many things are defined by convention, freeing you from having to re-invent things to stay productive.
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Update Boolean attributes from another controller
I have Users controller and session controller . I want to update one user attribute from session controller . How can i do that ?? I am currently using rails 4.0 .
Users controller:
class ...
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Social Network ( Help) [on hold]
I am in a great "problem" so to speak , and I need opinions to decide.
The problem is to create a social network without knowing the number of users who use it (but if thinking if they were ...
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Refactoring this code that produces a reverse-lookup hash from another hash
This code is based on the idea of a Form Object
http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2012/10/17/7-ways-to-decompose-fat-activerecord-models/
(see #3 if unfamiliar with the concept).
My actual code in ...
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How to build an API on top of an existing Rails app with NodeJs and what architecture to use? [on hold]
The explanation
I was recently hired by a company that has an old RoR 2.3 application with more than 100k users, a strong SEO strategy with more than 170k indexed urls, native android and ios ...
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Why would I want to install node.js in my Rails Application?
Okay guys, I'm super confused. I thought node.js was a sever side framwork, basically the js version of Ruby's Rails or PHP's Zend. However, I'm having some difficulty with turbolinks, and it seems to ...
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Rails: Law of Demeter Confusion
I am reading a book called Rails AntiPatterns and they talk about using delegation to to avoid breaking the Law of Demeter. Here is their prime example:
They believe that calling something like this ...
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Rails: The Law of Demeter [duplicate]
I am reading a book called Rails AntiPatterns and they talk about using delegation to to avoid breaking the Law of Demeter. Here is their prime example:
They believe that calling something like this ...
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How much freedom should a programmer have in choosing a language and framework?
I started working at a company that is primarily a C# oriented. We have a few people who like Java and JRuby, but a majority of programmers here like C#. I was hired because I have a lot of experience ...
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Rails: Useful example of delegate and Law of Demeter
I am currently learning about delegate and the Law of Demeter. I understand the Law of Demeter, but I can't seem to find a good example of where using delegate to avoid breaking the law would actually ...
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Creating a new database with Active Record
Please tell me if this is mad, but basically, I've created a custom rake task, and before it does its thing, it gives the user a warning message:
Warning, please back up your database before ...
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Rails/Node.js interaction
I and my co-worker are developing a web application with rails and node.js and we can't reach a consensus regarding a particular architectural decision.
Our setup is basically a rails server working ...
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How should developers go about managing complex plural words with ActiveRecord?
I'm playing with pluralize at the command line, and it's beginning to scare me.
Multiples of leaf is leafs (not leaves)
Multiples of cactus is cactus- not cacti, or even cactuses. Radius becomes ...
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how to deploy rails application from capistrano withou using git
How can i deploy my rails application without using git or any other version control system.
Is it possible then how can i deploy it.
I am currently having a VPS server with centos.
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How to handle licensing of Ruby on Rails code, which contains a LGPL library?
My company wants to release the code for a Ruby on Rails demo app, which includes our own LGPL'd library code.
It it legally kosher for me to state that the contents of the entire repo are released ...
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What is Rails way to save images?
I develop on iOS, and I'm switching from a PHP backend to Ruby on Rails. The interchange format is JSON.
A quick Google search for 'save images in Rails' has nearly every result talking about saving ...
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Designing and refactoring of payment logic
Im currently working on an application that helps users to coordinate dinner clubs and all related accounting. (A dinner club is where people in a group, take turns to cook for the rest and then you ...
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What are the pros and cons of running multiple instances of an app per marketplace?
One app to rule them all, and in the darkness, bind them.
I'm speccing out a client app at the moment.
The same service is to be delivered to two separate counties and the the content within: users, ...
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How can web development bootcamps deliver on their promise?
I came across the concept of web development bootcamps, these 9-10 week intensive crash courses claim to teach beginners web development and help them get 80k starting salary jobs. Many of you might ...
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Storing different algorithms and using them for demonstration
I have an app for creating simple graphs (the kind with vertices and edges) and then using different algorithms on them (BFS, DFS, topsort, Prim's etc) for demonstrating how they work.
I'm now ...
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Storing graphs with json and db
I have a Rails 4 app having to do with graphs. These graphs need to be stored and I'm not sure of the best way to do it. Firstly, the app has a SQLite db in development and PostgreSQL in production. I ...
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Self taught RoR developer: what needs to be learned to become a mid level developer? [closed]
I'm a self taught Ruby on Rails developer, and am currently working in a junior position at a web consulting firm. Recently there has been a wave of self taught programmers or people switching fields, ...
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Extra space between attributes and types in sqlite using rails
I was using rails to create a sqlite table in my application, I tried an example from a tutorial which I typed the command:
rails generate scaffold Product \
title:string description:text ...
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Sharing business logic between server-side and client-side of web application?
Quick question concerning shared code/logic in back and front ends of a web application.
I have a web application (Rails + heavy JS) that parses metadata from HTML pages fetched via a user supplied ...
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Is a data service API a good idea?
We currently have a monolithic Rails application that is really three separate applications that make use of the same data. In trying to figure out how to properly compartmentalize and break the ...
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Is it okay to call a model method in my view?
In the interest of keeping my Controller's skinny, I put a headline method in a Model.
# My Model
class Property
def headline
"#{name} | #{address}"
end
end
(Then, Property Controller for ...
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Rails + Heroku Architecture
I'm in the process of developing a Rails app that I plan on subsequently deploying to Heroku. I've never run apps on Heroku (outside of the free simple app) so I have some questions on a few things on ...
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Why there is much more support for closed xls format in rails (and ruby) than to an open ods format?
It is little depressive, but it seems to me that there is much more support for manipulating ugly proprietary closed format like xls in rails (and ruby) in general that to documented open Open ...
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Why is MongoDb popular with Node.js? [closed]
I've been looking att different web stacks, mainly rails and node.js. One thing that strikes me is that while rails is often used with a relational database Node.js seem to go hand in hand with ...
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Order collisions in ecommerce
Suppose I have a web app where sellers add their products and set them as available for sale. Then I show a list of products in my mobile app, where I get products via my REST API.
My problem: suppose ...
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We have a large Ruby on Rails application (25 million monthly users), our management decided to rewrite in Node.js, am I crazy?
Please tell me if:
Node.js will make our site faster!
Node.js will consume fewer server resources, we can save money!
Node.js will make us more productive!
Node.js means we can share client and ...
