Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a protocol for single sign-on. SAML handles communication between a service provider (SP) and an identity provider (IdP). The identity provider acts as an authentication and identification mechanism for service providers.
In this post, I’ll walk you through setting up your Rails application as a SAML IdP. This post is not intended to take a deep dive into the SAML protocol.
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Git is a very important tool. Not only does it keep a history of a project, but Git also makes it easy for a team to collaborate in a codebase. Although it’s such an important tool, it’s often under-utilized and on occasion, even neglected.
A clean Git history is easy to understand and tells a story about the project. It’s evident when features were added and how they were implemented. I’ve come to cherish a clean Git history on a project. The good news is, it’s not very difficult to keep this history clean. Read more on Four Steps To Maintaining a Clean Git History…
We all have them. Those once-great ideas that are now gathering dust somewhere in a GitHub repository. They start out fun and exciting, but quickly move to the back burner and out of your mind altogether.
Maybe life got in the way, maybe work did, or maybe you simply lost your motivation. There are many reasons your side project never saw the light of day, but here are a few things you can do to make sure your next one does.
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Active Admin is a fantastic library for building an administrator interface for a Rails application. Not only does it make creating CRUD pages incredibly simple, but it also allows for custom views–something I discovered recently when I needed to create a dashboard page that included several charts.
Read more on Adding Google Charts to your Active Admin Application…
Every Rails project I’ve worked on has used Active Record. ORMs like Active Record have many benefits. They abstract you away from the database. They make querying data elegant and simple (in most cases).
However, sometimes Active Record is not more efficient than Postgres.
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We all write elegant code the first time that never needs to be changed, right? Me neither.
Refactoring is just another tool in the developer’s belt. It wasn’t until recently that I realized how important a tool it is. I started a small refactor that turned into a big refactor that turned into an enormous refactor. In the end, I felt great about the new architecture, but it ended up being a lot more work than I anticipated. Coming out of that experience, I have four tips for keeping your refactors efficient and manageable.
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Closure actions were introduced in Ember 1.13. They are a huge improvement over the previous action infrastructure. In this post, I’ll highlight some of the things that make closure actions so awesome.
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Projects are full of features. As an agile shop, we believe in getting those features in front of our client and end users as soon as they have been completed and thoroughly tested. It allows us to validate our assumptions and iterate on the feature if necessary. However, after an application is in production things become trickier.
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This is the second post in a series of two that cover capturing, storing, and retrying network requests using Ember and Ember Data. In the first post, I discussed how to intercept HTTP requests and store those requests in local storage. In this post, I will cover how to retrieve them from local storage and retry them.
Read more on Retrying Network Requests in Ember.js: Part 2…
