Tag: Rails (Page 1 of 4)

Articles, tips, and resources for Rails-based development.

May 31, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/gem-creation-with-bundler/

Assign Users To Groups Using Hominid

May 1, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to integrating MailChimp into Rails applications, Hominid is my gem of choice. It’s implementation is relatively straightforward and it stays true to the MailChimp API.

I rarely have issues with it, but I recently needed to funnel users into specific groups which were part of a list and hit a bit of snag with the merge vars parameter of the listSubscribe function. Continue reading

February 7, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

http://erik.debill.org/2011/12/04/rake-for-rails-developers

Application Development with Rails 3, Flickr, and Google

November 22, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

A few weeks ago, I was contracted to build a custom web application to help with source, storing, and managing photographs.

Specifically, the application needed to allow a user to search for photos using the Flickr API, store a variety of information about the photo, and then provide a few ways to retrieve the photos and the associated data for later use.

Though I can’t speak to too much detail about the application, I thought I’d share a few notes on the development stack I used as well as some of the features of the application.

Filtering Custom Controller Actions and Responses in Rails

November 21, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

I’ve been finishing up an application that has a number of custom controller actions. All except one action – the approved action – require user authorization before retrieving any information from the database.

Specifically, I wanted to authentication the administrator for all actions except the approved action for both JSON and XML responses (but not HTML responses).

Here’s how to do it in Rails 3: