Ruby on Rails 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.
Ember.js Embedding Ember in Existing Apps How to embed an Ember.js app within a Rails app to update your technology, improve user experience, and speed up future development.
Ruby on Rails 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.
Web Apps Waiter, There’s a WordPress in My Web App! Using WordPress and WP-API to provide protected, headless CMS content inside an independent web app.
Development Practices Script Away Your Annoyances – Removing Manual Project Setup Tasks Using automation to make project setup as brain-dead as possible.
Ruby on Rails Managing Complex Permissions in CanCanCan for Rails Simple example of expressing and encapsulating more complex permissions than CanCan's base syntax accounts for.
Ruby on Rails Stop Writing Rails Controllers Stop writing controller code in Rails. Declare them in data.
Ruby on Rails Battling Rails Translations with AnnoTranslate A middleware stack plugin to ease the burden of the developer/translator interfacing and workflow in Rails apps.
Web Apps Dynamically Generating CSS with Ember.js and Rails Our app's CSS is being compiled by the Rails Asset Pipeline, and the colors are fetched over an API call—this poses an interesting challenge.
Web Apps 4 Ways to Pass Rails Data to AngularJS Here are four approaches developers can use to access Rails params and instance variables within their own Angular controller code.
Web Apps My Experiences with Ruby off Rails Don't assume that Ruby is only useful for making websites with Ruby on Rails, because I've been using it for years without shipping a Rails app.
Ruby YAML Configuration in Ruby with Settingslogic Settingslogic is an awesome RubyGem for straightforward access to Ruby application configuration.
