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Category: Ruby On Rails

Database driven scheduling with Clockwork and ActiveJob

March 31, 2016 Lorefnon

An introductory tutorial on making event scheduling management more accessible and configurable to administrators through database driven admin interfaces in…

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Posted in: Popular Posts, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Uncategorized

Tip: Annotate ActiveAdmin resources along with models

January 16, 2016 Lorefnon

Annotate is a very useful utility for annotating schema information in Rails models. The gem prepends (or appends, as per…

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Posted in: ActiveAdmin, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Uncategorized

Useful delegation patterns for Rails

Lorefnon

An exploration into the delegation pattern and how it can be useful in various aspects of a Rails application

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Posted in: Ruby, Ruby On Rails

Boost your content focussed site with Structured Page Fragments

November 26, 2015 Lorefnon

Eliminate full page refreshes and reduce page transition latency, in your your Rails sites, using SPF.js – a library for…

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Posted in: Frontend, Popular Posts, Ruby, Ruby On Rails

Gathering and Visualizing metrics from Rails application using InfluxDB

April 4, 2015 Lorefnon

Checkout how using a distributed time series database like InfluxDB can help keep track of application events from all multiple…

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Posted in: Ruby On Rails, Web Development

Dealing with JSON data in Active Admin

March 2, 2015 Lorefnon

While the default form fields of Active Admin are decent for most use cases, there are special cases like JSON…

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Posted in: ActiveAdmin, Ruby, Ruby On Rails

Leveraging the strategy pattern in Rails – I

March 1, 2015 Lorefnon

Strategy pattern is a well known software design pattern. In this post we explore how to apply it in the…

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Posted in: Ruby, Ruby On Rails

Allowing multiple emails for a user in Devise

September 7, 2014 Lorefnon

Devise is an incredibly popular authorization gem for Rails. Unfortunately allowing a user to log in through multiple emails is…

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Posted in: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Uncategorized

Optimizing space taken by type column in Rails STI

July 27, 2014 Lorefnon

The Single Table Inheritance facility in Rails is quite awesome in that it is simple, minimal and easy to understand.…

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Posted in: Ruby, Ruby On Rails
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