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Conditional validations with ActiveRecord

One of the processes that Ruby on Rails makes very easy is validating models conditionally....

19 January 2016 Ruby on Rails


Upgrading to Ruby on Rails 5

Last week I upgraded the Lugo Labs website to Rails 5. The process was easy...

12 January 2016 Ruby on Rails


Simple exception monitoring in Ruby on Rails

We have a look at installing exception_notification in a Ruby on Rails app to email...

31 December 2015 Ruby on Rails


Deploy Ruby on Rails apps with Capistrano

I really like Capistrano: it provides enough automation to my Rails apps, that I don't...

24 November 2015 Ruby on Rails


Building a Ruby on Rails app part 5: The front end

In the previous part of our "Building a Ruby on Rails app" series we completed...

18 November 2015 Ruby on Rails


Send emails with Mandrill and Rails

Mandrill by MailChimp is an online service that sends transactional emails. We have used it...

15 November 2015 Ruby on Rails


Tag your ActiveRecord models

Where we see how to add tags to the Article models of a blog application...

9 November 2015 Ruby on Rails


Build a RSS feed in Ruby on Rails

Building a RSS feed in Ruby on Rails is very easy, it feels like almost...

7 November 2015 Ruby on Rails


Know your ActiveRecord objects

I don't know about you, but sometimes I find it difficult to escape the SQL...

4 November 2015 Ruby on Rails


Part 4: Importing book sales from Amazon with Ruby on Rails

Where we create the Rake task to fetch the rank sales from Amazon and save...

3 November 2015 Ruby on Rails