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It took me a while to find a nice and concise way to import a CSV into a Heroku Postgres Database that I use for Rails. At first I thought about doing it through Rails migrations and seeds. Then I realized that was more work and would pollute my repository. This is the approach I would recommend for others
At first, I thought that maybe I was going crazy. How could rails support rendering email previews but have it so locked down it's almost useless outside of local testing? Hey RAILS TEAM, haven't you guys ever seen the "View this email in your browser" links on most email marketing platforms?! Apparently not.
Data scrubbing is something we all have to deal with from time to time. Ruby is such a great language to do this scrubbing in, because most of the time it's already installed on your operating system and doesn't require any additional dependencies to work with. This is a little example that scrubs a CSV and converts the data in a file.
Redcarpet is probably the most popular gem for parsing Markdown in ruby, yet finding great examples on how to do method overloading and custom tags can be difficult. One of the things that we wanted to do for our own website was to have non-internal links open in a new tab (target="_blank") and to allow authors to link to resources by id rather than permalink, which works against our SEO. So how did we accomplish this?
This article guides you through the solution to Project Euler No.2. We work the problem using Ruby, but have available in the source code the solution in Go, Swift, and Java. Euler No.2 asks us to manipulate the values of the Fibonacci series.
This article is a beginner friendly guide to approaching coding challenges, developing efficient and responsive algorithms, the ways and reasons we pay attention to time complexity in our code (and what that means!), and how to apply all of this when solving Project Euler problem #1.
A collection of some of the best Rails gems for version 4.0 and later. In this collection of the best rails gems, you will find a quick overview of the gem, what purpose it has, and why it's better than some of the other options available.
Working with the Mongoid adapter can sometimes be a bit frustrating as both the library and ActiveModel are treated as second-class citizens in the Rails world. If you have ever wondered how to make separate mongodb queries and merge them in Rails, then this little guide is perfect for you.
When using devise we may find ourselves needing to add more fields to a devise user such as preferences and naming conventions. This article is to show you how to add a custom field to your devise user.
Sinatra is a great solution for small and nibble ruby web applications. While Heroku is awesome for all things hosting. Today I will show you how to quickly deploy your Sinatra application to Heroku.
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