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Paper trail lets us track all the changes in the models data for the purpose of its editing and versioning. By using this gem, we can see how a model looks, at every stage of its life-cycle and we can take it back to any version of the model data and we can even undo all the changes after a record h...

How to create a Ruby Gem Ruby Gems or “gem” is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries. It is easy to manage and install to your system and it can be used by various rails applications development.

Every RoR de...

I have documented this method clearly with corrections to the examples shown in this page on my blog: http://www.rubyplus.net/2016/11/aliasmethod-in-ruby.html

PayPal Checkout includes payment solutions ranging from simple to robust that let the merchants as well as developers choose an integration option that can be the best-suited for their website and customers. In order to integrate Paypal Payment Gateway, we need to do the following:

1. Have a PayPal...

e.g.: Rails.cache.fetch("out_of_stock_products", :expires_in => 5.minutes) do Product.all.joins(:inventory).conditions.where("inventory.quantity = 0") end

Generate Sitemap: Required Gem: Sitemap generator:- https://github.com/kjvarga/sitemap_generator SitemapGenerator is the easiest way to generate Sitemaps in Ruby. Rails integration provides access to the Rails route helpers within our sitemap config file and automatically makes the rake tas...

Making API for a Rails application is simple for a Ruby on Rails developer. In any case, how different clients/customers will know whether the API is working fine or not without a customer side application. Is there any answer for this which I can report for API inside the Rails application, The ans...

There are distinctive reasons why you should think about having various databases in your Ruby on Rails application. In my situation, I expected to store large quantities of data.

Consider default database is MySQL. In our application database.yml file write connections for MySQL in normal way. Aft...

Search kick Gem is a Ruby gem that runs on top of Elasticsearch and makes it easy to make searches in a Rails-friendly fashion. In addition, it allows you to add more features including analytics, autocomplete, and personalized results. Searchkick realizes what your users are searching for. As more...

Acts_As_Votable is ruby gem specifically written for Rails/ActiveRecord models and This gem allows any model to be voted on upvote/downvote like/dislike, etc. It allows any model to be voted under arbitrary scopes using this gem we can vote any model. votes do not have to come from a user, they can...

Sending an email from an application through a development or staging environment can be cumbersome especially when you want to preview the mail before you hit the send button. With the gem ‘mail_view, you can easily preview emails right from your development environment. Previewing mail is importan...

Ice_cube is a ruby library for effectively taking care of repeated events (schedules). The force lies in the ability to indicate multiple rules, and have ice_cube rapidly make sense of whether the schedule falls on a specific date (.occurs_on?), or what times it happens at (.occurrences, .first, .al...

Extract from:

http://www.sitepoint.com/enumerated-types-with-activerecord-and-postgresql/

There are 2 things that we need to do before we can use ActiveRecord::Enum with PostgreSQL Enumerated Types: database migration and enum declaration.

First, let’s create the database migration:

$ bundl...

Volt – a new Framework for Ruby where both the server and client sides are written in Ruby via OPAL (a ruby to JavaScript compiler) so developer can write dynamic applications without writing a single JavaScript code. Volt is similar to Meteor but it doesn’t have all the portions of Meteor.

The Bas...

The world is social. Where art thou? In the attention-drive world, social media rules the roost. So, it is no wonder if you have been bitten by the social networking bug and want to develop a social networking site. If you are contemplating the best platform for developing a social media site, then...

The New Relic Ruby Agent runs in one of two modes:

Production Mode Low overhead instrumentation that captures detailed information on your application running in production and transmits them to newrelic.com where you can monitor them in real time.

Developer Mode

A Rack middleware that maps /newr...

Rails 5 was announced by David Heinemeier Hansson(DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails Framework at RailsConf 2015 in Atlanta. Ruby 5.0.0 Beta version was released on 18th December 2015. Apart from the Rails 4, the new features are implemented in 5 version such as Action cable and improved turbolinks that...

Decorators allow us to add behavior to objects in runtime and don’t affect other objects of the class. Decorators can be applied when you need to dynamically add and remove responsibility to a class. The decorator pattern is a helpful alternative to creating sub-classes. They give additional functio...

Rails I18n and elegant message passing to JavaScript

The process of “internationalization” usually means to abstract all strings and other locale specific bits (such as date or currency formats) out of your application. The process of “localization” means to provide translations and localized forma...

With more and more applications being built every day, programming languages too are becoming generic and all-purpose. Every programming language comes with its own set of specialization, and comparison between one programming languages to others may seem like a comparison between apples and oranges...