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Posted on March 31, 2016 September 9, 2018

Database driven scheduling with Clockwork and ActiveJob

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

Posted on January 16, 2016 September 9, 2018

Tip: Annotate ActiveAdmin resources along with models

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Lorefnon
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ActiveAdmin, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Uncategorized

Annotate is a very useful utility for annotating schema information in Rails models. The gem prepends (or appends, as per your configuration) a summarized information about the table schema in each model file as comments) – saving multiple roundtrips to the schema.rb file during coding.

Posted on October 12, 2014 September 9, 2018

Decrypting an obfuscated font with OCR

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A small demonstration to show that solutions attempting to protect against scraping through obfuscated fonts are not full proof.

Posted on September 7, 2014 September 9, 2018

Allowing multiple emails for a user in Devise

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Lorefnon
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Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Uncategorized

Devise is an incredibly popular authorization gem for Rails. Unfortunately allowing a user to log in through multiple emails is not as straightforward as one might expect. This post outlines a way to do just that.

Posted on February 2, 2014 September 9, 2018

Configuring Emacs as a productive development environment for Rails development

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Lorefnon
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While emacs is well known to be a very productive editor, there are a few additional steps one must take to set it up as a development environment for Ruby on Rails. This post outlines my current setup.

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