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Articles, tips, and resources for Rails-based development.
I’m working on a small application in which currency – specifically USD – will be stored in a MySQL database.
Because Rails supports a variety of number formats, it’s not completely obvious which is the best to use when storing monetary values.
Using a decimal with a certain level of precision seems to be the most scalable option.
Devise is my preferred gem for introducing user authentication into a Rails project. In Rails 3, it’s easy to install but if you attempt to run the devise:install generator, you may receive this message:
Could not find generator devise:install
Accessing a controller asynchronously usually requires writing a respond_to block in the corresponding action but I recently had the need to return a specific value in the same action based on the query string parameters.
I’m in the process of building a Rails application and needed to introduce some autocomplete functionality on a couple of text fields.
If you’re using Rails 3 and are not working with jQuery and the jQuery UI library, then there is a solid gem you may want to checkout; otherwise, here’s how you can setup autocomplete on a text field using Rails 3, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
First, create the directory out of which you’ll be running your project. Ultimately, this is going to be the repository:
mkdir project_name
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