I found a curious problem recently where I built what for the sake of argument we’ll call an “admin control panel” application in Ruby on Rails. The application was originally designed as an internal tool for a company. Eventually the company decided...

Something that I’ve encountered on some Rails projects that I have inherited, or done work on is single controller actions that serve multiple request types – for example, a /contact route that handles both initially displaying a contact form, via...

I’ve been working with Ember.js a fair bit lately, and have many maintenance-mode Ruby on Rails projects. Learning and working within the javascript ecosystem has provided a number of interesting ideas and approaches to bring back to new or existing...

I’m doing some interesting work for a client at the moment. The core feature is displaying PDFs using the Flexpaper PDF viewer.

Full text and advanced search

Outside of Flexpaper, the application features both full text and advanced search engines...

Six years ago I wrote a Rails plugin for a few websites I was working on that required basic French/English I18n from the database. Six years later, I’m gemifying the plugin.

Installation:

Gemfile:

gem 'translates_to_french'

Usage

app/models/article...

I wrote previously, when I was first beginning to learn Ember, about my efforts to incorporate advanced search into an application, using Ransack in my Ruby on Rails API.

I’ve continued to work on this, and have now added Ember’s query params– which...

I’ve been learning Ember.js over the course of the past year and it’s given me ideas that I’ve been pleased to be able to use in Ruby on Rails projects as well; one such idea is using Handlebars.

I’ve been aware of JS templating languages for years...

I’ve been learning Ember recently, using Rails as backend. Not having this one line in my application caused me a world of hurt: App.ApplicationSerializer = DS.ActiveModelSerializer.extend({}); I was going through all kinds of pain to force Ember to...

A client inquiry recently led me to research on developing a hybrid app. It’s something I have researched at a few points over the years so I wasn’t sure current options and best practices.

I’ve been working with Ember.js over the summer and it occurred...

Update April 6 2018 –– I would now recommend Nanobox for this type of deployment.

I’ve been looking recently for a better way of deploying new Rails apps to VPS – better that is than how I’ve done this on a few occasions in the past: apt-getting the...