What topics would you like to see covered on railstips.org?
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27 votes
Advanced ActiveRecord
Performing database tasks that can be very resource intensive if done in-correctly. AR doesn't necessarily provide a clear cut path to performing a lot of these without additional effort. Perhaps a post on how to perform these techniques the cleanest way possible, examples:
* AR missing the 'hav... more
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27 votes
my balls on rails
John, my balls are really great, but I want them to really shine with ruby and go faster with rails. How can we let this happen?
Also, how to deal with trolls in rails
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22 votes
Rails and Money
What's the best way to handle tasks in rails when it comes to storing monies in varying currencies. An example of this may be an auction site, which user's list their items in a local currency (or, any currency). User's then want to search for items between values in a specific currency.
* What ... more
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12 votes
Testing Mailers with RSpec
It would be nice to show how to test the mailers in an application using RSpec, I can't seem to find info on this anywhere.
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10 votes
Logging Events Seperately to the database planned
I would like to know more about logging events to the database to keep track of possibly user actions, interactions.
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8 votes
build a chronological rss feed aggregator like friendfeed
using httparty and other tools, build a feed aggregator that will display the latest posts from flickr, twitter, delicious, google reader shared and other web services.
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8 votes
testing controllers behind authentication
I feel like I have a good handle on testing logic in Rails models, but the controller seems like a totally different animal, especially when authentication is involved. Love your idea of going through testing from the basics on up---it seems like there's a big gap between the tutorials that are ... more
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7 votes
Alternatives to eRB
What alternatives there are to eRB aside from the populate ones (builder and haml spring to mind as fairly popular).
* What are they
* Pros/Cons
* Worth using against something great like haml
* Niche alternatives (for very specific tasks, perhaps PDF generation?) -
7 votes
Virtual Attributes
There's a nice screencast about virtual attributes on RailsCasts, but I would like to know more, would like to have something in writing, and would like to see more examples of how virtual attributes can be used.
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5 votes
Ruby on Rails message queue service
A free cloud "Message Queue" service www.onlinemq.com.
It is 100% web services oriented (Soap - wsdl, Rest & Pox).
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4 votes
acl authorization
Most of the authorization plugins deal with authorizing actions. Only a few are meant for authorizing action on specific objects. The ones I know of are outdated (RBAC, AcitveACL) and not very actively maintained, AFAIK. This topic might be beneficial to many less advanced railists
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3 votes
How to user AuthSMTP with Rails application
It seems making use of AuthSMTP is not as easy as I expected.
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2 votes
Testing XMLRPC API
I've seen a few examples for testing XMLRPC APIs but they all seem to revolve around using Mocks. How do you know if the API is well tested if you aren't hitting the API? Do you test first without Mocks and then once verified that the behavior is correct, use mocks to speed up testing?
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1 votes
Helpers in ruby
I would like to know how helpers are useful in ruby on rails application.
as i came to know from goggling, writing code in helpers make extra burden on server. so is it correct?
i my application i used to write many helpers method, so thus it decreases any application performance ??
please g... more
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1 votes
Rails API for Message queue in the Cloud
What are the API's for rails for sending message to queues.
For services like Amazon SQS and Onlinemq.com
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0 votes
Subdomains shopify style
Hey,
it would be nice if you can explain how to do subdomains like blogger or shopify does?
Or maybe subdomain is the wrong expression but allow the user to use his own domain to link to the service.Here is an explaination
http://wiki.shopify.com/Using_Your_Own_DomainsThanks
