Adding custom fields to Devise
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.
3 published resources on Third Party Rails Gems
Blog posts on working with third party gems on the Rails framework. There are many uses cases where we need to understand them further, build upon them or only use certain pieces of the gem.
Become a SubscriberThe best Rails gems
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.
Custom Markdown and Links in Redcarpet
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?