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Development Practices

You’re Ready to Deploy – You Must Be Done, Right?

Your app might do everything your customers asked, but does it do everything you need? Here're tools for monitoring and diagnosing issues after it ships.

Web Apps

Integrating Paypal Express with Rails 3.1 – Part 2

How to integrate Paypal with Ruby on Rails 3.1. A step-by-step tutorial.

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Running Multiple Rails Applications with Pow

Configuring Pow, a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X, to work from external devices.

Web Apps

Upload Files Directly to S3 with Plupload, Rails, and Paperclip

A description of uploading files directly to Amazon S3 from the browser using Plupload, Ruby on Rails, and Paperclip.

Ruby on Rails

Integrating Paypal Express with Rails 3.1, Part 1

How to integrate Paypal with Ruby on Rails 3.1. A step-by-step tutorial.

Ruby on Rails

Testing wrap_parameters in a Rails Controller

Currently, in Rails 3.1 the @wrap_parameters@ controller method works great, but is untestable. Here's how I've worked to resolve this issue.

Web Apps

Rails Routes in Javascript with js-routes

UX/Design Tools

Serving Fonts in Rails 3.1

With Rails 3.1 now here, how do you serve up all the assets for your web apps? This is a brief start to finish on serving up fonts via the asset pipeline.

Ruby

Pry Yourself Away from IRB

Pry features syntax highlighting, a flexible plugin architecture, runtime invocation and source and documentation browsing.

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Nested Backbone Models

When mapping a Backbone Model directly to a Rails model, it is common that you may want to have a nested or associated model.

Web Apps

Using SASS, Sprockets, and Compass with Rails 3.1

Using Sprockets in Rails 3.1 can be a little tricky. It wasn't hard to get Sprockets compiling CSS files from SASS into CSS. However, it became difficult wh

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails and MySQL BIGINT

In order to take advantage of the BIGINT storage with Rails migrations you first need to create a normal integer and then change the column to a BIGINT.