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Run a Local Rails Script on Heroku

One-liners can be piped into the heroku run console command—what about longer scripts you write locally and want to execute in a remote Heroku environment?

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Adding Google Charts to your Active Admin Application

It's surprisingly easy to use and extend Active Admin. Adding charts to custom Active Admin views is an example of what it can do. Here's how.

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A Few Tips For Getting Started With Rails

A few issues that can arise when you get started creating models using Rails, along with some easy solutions to them that will save you time.

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Testing Data Migrations in Rails

When approaching rails data migrations, there are two complications: future-proofing and testing. This post walks through an example migration.

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Uploading Files in Rails Using Paperclip and Active Admin

A quick and easy overview of how set up a fully functional file-upload implementation in Rails using Active Admin backed by Paperclip.

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A Minimalist Guide to Customizing ActiveAdmin Forms

A minimalist's guide to customizing ActiveAdmin forms, relying more on Ruby and logic than on the unique ins and outs of ActiveAdmin.

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Uploading Files in Rails’ Active Admin

How to upload a small file and then store it as a field in the database via an Active Admin interface in a Rails app.

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Diving into Existing Rails Apps

Trying to wade into an existing project is frustrating. When working with Rails, I've found a few avenues of attack that help me jump in.

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6 Months of Avoiding Rails Controllers with DDC

A review the Data Driven Controllers (ddc gem) after a few months of use.

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Custom Validations in Rails

Validations are a powerful tool to make sure an application's data doesn't become out of sync with its business logic.

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Managing Complex Permissions in CanCanCan for Rails

Simple example of expressing and encapsulating more complex permissions than CanCan's base syntax accounts for.

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Stop Writing Rails Controllers

Stop writing controller code in Rails. Declare them in data.

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