Beta Blog: Kill Your Signup Form with Rails
Even though the gradual engagement meme has been around for a while, and everyone just hates signup forms, they just seem to keep popping up like a bad habit.
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Exclude your staging site from Google with robots.txt and not shoot yourself in the foot
If you want to exclude your staging site from Google using robots.txt without running the risk to forget deleting the file once you go live, name the file robots.exclude.txt instead.
In your Apache Vhost config, rewrite requests for the stagi...
How to not die with ActionView::MissingTemplate when clients request weird formats
When HTTP clients make an request they can define which response formats they can process. They do it by adding a header to the HTTP request like this:
Accept: application/json
This means the client will only understand JSON respon...
Make Sure Your Rails Application is Actually Caching (and not just pretending) - Alfa Jango Blog » Blog Archive
It occurred to me that many Rails/Passenger/Apache applications may have caching set up in a way that it appears to be caching, when it is not actually caching.
Rails: Assigning associations via HTML forms
Let's say we have posts with an attribute title that is mandatory.
Our example feature request is to tag these posts with a limited number of tags. The following chapters explain different approaches in Rails, how you can assign such a...
Use form_for without the enclosing form tag
In rare cases you might need something like form_for (for using form builder methods on the resulting block element) but without the surrounding form. One such case would be upda...
Common mistakes when storing file uploads with Rails
1. Saving files to a directory that is not shared between deploys or servers
If you save your uploads to a made up directory like "RAILS_ROOT/uploads", this directory goes away after every deploy (since every release gets a new). Also this di...
has_many :bugs, :through => :rails: Make your shoulda tests faster with fast_context
decided to go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s fast_context as a solution for it. fast_context compiles all the ‘should’s within a context into a single test.
Working with or without time zones in Rails applications
Rails supports time zones, but there are several pitfalls. Most importantly because Time.now and Time.current are completely different things and code from gems might use one or the other.
Especially configuring an application that cares only...
Tagaholic - Console Update With Your Editor
Rails’ script/console makes it easy to fetch, view and edit your database records. But can you edit those records as quickly as you edit code in your text editor? Riiight, like editing our database records in an editor is gonna happen? It already ...
Problems with Rails 3 Remote Links and Forms Using jQuery .live() in IE
There is a problem with AJAX response handling for Rails 3 remote links and forms in Internet Explorer. This problem affects applications still using jQuery 1.4.2.