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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PHP vs ROR for AJAX and responsive design [closed]
I'm in the planning phase of making a website for calculating various mathematical problems, as a school/sparetime project with a couple of friends. We're gonna start off with implementing a "right ...
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Can Rails Do This? [closed]
I'm pretty new to rails, and development in general. My goal is to build a website that helps my coworkers bill out claims. (We are a medical billing company for treatment centers).
I have a pretty ...
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Incorporating web designer's into a rails app
I have a designer who has great knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript (Not jQuery or AJAX though).
He gives me his designs in those files and I have to incorporate it into my apps.
The site is not ...
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Handle thousands of requests and reply after a fixed time with calculations using rails backend [closed]
I have a application which will get thousand of requests simultaneously and expect reply at the same time after a fixed period. I have decided to receive the requests and store the data in Redis and ...
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Rendering head :ok vs head :no_content. Any good practices?
Whenever I take in data and do something like delete a post, etc. I generally return head :no_content.
For example:
def destroy
@post = Post.find_by(external_id: params[:post_id])
@post.destroy!
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Where to load data for things like a sidebar in MVC frameworks?
This seems extremely basic, but I've read a lot of related questions and haven't found a proper answer.
Using Ruby on Rails or other similar MVC framework, how am I supposed to load data that is ...
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How to scrub Twitter and Facebook posts for many users
I'm making an Rails app that in theory should scrub new posts from the users facebook and twitter accounts and put them in a timeline for an analyst to analyze and determine if they are good or bad ...
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How do rails project know about rake tasks from other repositories
We have a rake task called db:sanity_check which exists in a 'core' repo.
Other repositories that we have also show this rake task.
But they do not define the rake task. It 'comes' from core'
How ...
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Should I be writing feature or request specs?
I've been writing model specs for a while now and I'm gradually moving towards integration testing. Right now, I'm looking at the best way to test the output of my ActiveAdmin dashboard but I'm unsure ...
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Should I use expect or should when writing RSpec specs? [closed]
Please can someone explain to me how I should go about deciding whether to use expect or should syntax for my rspec examples.
From my understanding we should no longer be using the 'should' syntax.
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Architecture to handle service concurrency on resources exposed via REST API [closed]
REST API frameworks like Python Eve handle concurrency control via an entity tag. This ensures that several clients which loaded the same resource will not overwrite the changes of each other, because ...
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Calculate which quantity packages to use based on quantity of bookings
In my app, many appointments can be booked for activities. Each activity has many price packages with a price and a quantity.
On showing the cart, I need to work out what combination of packages ...
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Ruby on Rails application interfacing with a Datamax barcode printer [closed]
I am trying to find a standalone way to interface with a Datamax M-Class Mark2 label printer through a Ruby on Rails application. I currently have a solution that is working, which i use javascript to ...
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An efficient + extendable way to store/reference a normalized set of “causations”?
I'm looking for a good way to define and store references to a normalized set of "causations". I have a well-defined set of reasons (short, descriptive strings) why certain objects are created and ...
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Splitting up a Rails/Ruby app onto multiple servers
We recently moved a large application to two machines, both running the same codebase.
I. Machine A
Web server for public facing application
Receives web hook call backs from our ESP
Handles a ...
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A container only assets in Rails
I have multiple segmented Rails apps that are connected to each other:
App A
App B
App C
While I try to keep the design, such as header and footer, to look similar, but each app has its own ...
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How can I estimate hosting costs on Heroku into the hundreds of thousands of users?
Heroku's pricing page is clear when looking at what I'm paying and what I'm getting, but it is not helpful for predicting future costs of an app. If I have an app that is still being developed, how ...
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Refactoring a Single Rails Model with large methods & long join queries trying to do everything
I have a working Ruby on Rails Model that I suspect is inefficient, hard to maintain, and full of unnecessary SQL join queries. I want to optimize and refactor this Model (Quiz.rb) to comply with ...
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Rails Google Cloud Messaging with heroku
I'm looking at using GCM to send notifications from my rails app to an Android app. The getting started guide says:
In the resulting configuration dialog, supply your server's IP address.
I'm using ...
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Web app that runs other applications? [closed]
I am trying to write a web application that interacts with a service that would run scripts at the system level. Something like a website that you can schedule a job, the service will run the job with ...
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Do Rails Join Models Get Controllers?
I have a rails app where my users can buddy up with other users. Since that relationship can have a status (approved/rejected/pending), I decided to go with a join model (UserRelationship) so now I ...
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Embedded Model Designing — top down or bottom up? [closed]
I am trying to learn RoR and develop a webapp.
I have a few models I have thought of for this app, and they are fairly embedded. For example (please excuse my lack of RoR syntax):
Model: textbook
...
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How to Structure a Trinary state in DB and Application
How should I structure, in the DB especially, but also in the application, a trinary state?
For instance, I have user feedback records which need to be reviewed before they are presented to the ...
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Where does Rails get it's datetime for creating records?
I have a rails app with a data model called 'jobs' and i'm faced with a critical design choice crossroads.
I don't know enough about Rails and it's inner workings to be able to say for sure what I ...
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Serialized values or separate table, which is more efficient?
I have a Rails model email_condition_string with a word column in it. Now I have another model called request_creation_email_config with the following columns
admin_filter_group:references
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Is is OK to use a non-primary key as the id in a rails resource?
I am getting ready to set up a resource for some new api calls to my rails application.
I am planning on calling the resource devices ie
resources :devices
This is going to represent android ...
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Rails engine testing - use dummy app or real parent app?
I'm using Rails engines to break up a big app into smaller pieces. The parent app mostly handles users and authentication.
In one of my engine tests I want to log in a user before each test. How ...
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One huge rails webapp or many small webapps?
We have a huge system to develop, it has 3 main functions:
API provider
Worker to automated data retrieval
Management of data built in workers
They all share the same DB, but for scalability ...
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Ruby on Rails - branding
I am working on a website, which is to have multiple brands. The core functionality for all brands will be the same, however there will be a number of differences between them. Those differences may ...
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Change of session/context in rails application
I'm currently developing an app in Ruby on Rails with a social network side, and have several different models including users, groups and pages.
I would like to allow users to be group/page admins, ...
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Need advice on design in Ruby On Rails
For personal educational purposes I am making a site for a conference. One of the object that exist in a conference is a session, which has different states and in each state it has slightly different ...
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Extracting models into a external dependency
About 9 months ago, I asked a question about creating a service layer for my application. Unfortunately, in the ensuing time, no progress in that area was made, primarily due to time constraints. As ...
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Create a loop that visits every link on a site [closed]
I want to create an HTML scraper in Ruby on Rails and I want to implement a progress bar and an ability for it to pick up where it left off if it's interrupted while scraping.
I think the best way to ...
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Why does Rails do config in code?
According to the Pragmatic Programmers, code should be for abstractions, while configuration and details should live in metadata. Rails seems to diverge dramatically from this pattern. Much config is ...
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Should an object update itself?
I'm working on Ruby on Rails. There is a feature in our app where doctors can "claim" cases for themselves.
I can either have the doctor perform the action and update the plate, or I can have the ...
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Advantages and disadvantages of PHP/Ruby [closed]
I've been a front-end developer for about two years now, and I'm attempting to break into the server side of things. Ideally I'd like to work for a startup social network on the back-end side so I ...
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Rails: get data about a model collection, with new model or method?
have a model Product with attributes sales, views and I need to get sales/views count of all products, in this case is more correct to implement this things as method and have a call like ...
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Ruby on Rails database using static lookup tables or constant strings
In some ruby on rails projects, I have seen instances where strings are used instead of a foreign key reference to a lookup table.
I usually code in C#/SQL Server and use lookup tables, but am not ...
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Dealing with 'dirty' Ruby on Rails client
I had to leave a startup about a month ago because of lack of funding. Basically, this client wanted an application to allow contractors to create, update, read, and delete yardsigns. Straight forward ...
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Is api user authentication with oauth possible for both email/pw and 3rd party services
I have an api only application (rails-api) and I'm looking to authorize a user on both email/password or 3rd party services like facebook or twitter etc, so I know I will have to use Oauth at some ...
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How to create html pages which don't change very much and not very often?
I have a Rails server that connects to a json API on another server to get data to build the pages dynamically. These pages, however, don't change very much and not very often.
I was thinking I could ...
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What is the best way to build a static page web site from a JSON API?
I have a JSON API that includes some discusssions. I want to build a static html site on another server, pages that are built from data on that API. I am more comfortable using Rails than Node. The ...
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Should I use the new method/action to retrieve records? (Rails)
I have an admin controller that is just used for its index action which renders a view with the most recent updates to certain resources:
class AdminController < ApplicationController
...
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help me understand Rails and attributes as class methods
This is from the Hartl Rails tutorial. We are automatically logging in a user in the process of creating that user with a callback to #create_remember_token. It works great but there are some things, ...
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Multiple roles in Ruby On Rails
I've been asked to put together an application in RoR which has multiple roles for users. The idea is that a user will have a role, Admin, Moderator, User ect... and they will also have a department ...
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model association or controller?
I'm trying to create a rails app that allows users to submit information about their pets. I've come to a point where my knowledge is limited and I don't know enough about what/how this could be done ...
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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? [closed]
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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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 ...
