Is Ruby on Rails still relevant? This is a question that many developers ask themselves every year.

Among the programming languages we use, a special mention goes to Ruby and its main framework, Ruby on Rails, with which we've developed several of the apps created to date.

I recently had to implement a view with the classic search form with two select dependent on each other. My aim was to leave the page as clean as possible and make the code tha...

Hello everyone! For those not familiar Disqus is a platform that allows you to easily insert a box for comments on any website and allows users to use the their Facebook or Twi...

Will Paginate is a great and widely used gem for pagination in Ruby on Rails. Sometimes you need to paginate multiple list on the same page. This tip show you how to put a lis...

[** UPDATE: 21/01/2013 **]: Thanks to Kevin Triplett now there's a Devise wiki page referencing this post and combining the comments. Please check this wiki page, especially if...

Every time you create a web application where users can register, it is good to exclude some login or username so that they can not be used. A classic example is the login "adm...

In my last post I talked about Ruby's hash. Today I will resume and complete the argument by describing some of the things you can do to manipulate the hash values. 1. How to i...

The most famous framework based on Ruby language, Ruby on Rails, makes extensive use of hash. And cause in our blog we talk mainly about development with Ruby on Rails it seem f...

Today I want to present a very convenient jQuery plugin I’ve used to create a combo box with checkboxes for a multi-selection field.Suppose we have a form of insertion / modific...

In some projects can happen that you have to use different graphic templates for different methods of the same controller. At first sight one would implement a solution that pro...

With the today’s post I shall conclude my series on Ruby On Rails Best Practices . This is not because the required topics are completed, but rather because after the release of...

Migrations, in my opinion, are one of the best things in Rails since these allow the creation and populating the database using ruby code without having to worry about which typ...

In today’s post I will show some optimization we can do for models. I’ll focus on how to put methods inside the right model and delegation to get a better code.1. Put method in...

Today's post discusses the first of the behavioral pattern shown by the GoF, the chain of responsibility. This pattern expects a series of commands to be executed and a set of ...