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1. 1 votes

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   Throw up an HTTParty example for Tumblr!

   by anonymous | 0 comments
2. 8 votes

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   Authentication with MongoDB

   Looking for a nice way to authenticate my applications, but with a mongodb point of view.. Couldnt find. Would really be helpful to get your opinion on that topic.

   by anonymous | 0 comments
3. 3 votes

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   How to user AuthSMTP with Rails application

   It seems making use of AuthSMTP is not as easy as I expected.

   by anonymous | 1 comment
4. 10 votes

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   Logging Events Seperately to the database

   I would like to know more about logging events to the database to keep track of possibly user actions, interactions.

   by anonymous | 1 comment

   Status: planned
5. 1 votes

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   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

   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 give me any goos suggestions on this....

   Thank in advance,
   mahesh

   by umamahesh | 0 comments
6. 2 votes

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   rubyweaver

   by anonymous | 0 comments
7. 3 votes

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   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_Domains

   Thanks

   by anonymous | 0 comments
8. 27 votes

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   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

   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 'having' clause, and what to do if you want to use having in your query.
   * Count children by parent_id (with conditions, and named_scope [if possible]), to quickly get an ordered array of [[parent, children_count], [parent, children_count]].

   by jbrooks | 4 comments
9. 22 votes

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   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.

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   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 are the old/current/upcoming currency handling mechanisms?
   * Pros/cons (e.g. Do any keep up-to-date currency information, how many currencies do they manage?).
   * Is there anything out there which can handle the entire above scenerio.

   by jbrooks | 1 comment
10. 10 votes

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    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?)

    by jbrooks | 1 comment
11. 15 votes

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    jruby

    - precompile a rails app
    - setup background tasks

    by maintheme | 1 comment
12. 11 votes

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    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).

    by anonymous | 0 comments
13. 9 votes

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    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.

    by seaofclouds | 0 comments
14. 7 votes

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    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.

    by charlesroper | 1 comment
15. 4 votes

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    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

    by anonymous | 1 comment
16. 8 votes

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    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

    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 out there and what I'd actually need to do to write test code for an entire application.

    by anonymous | 0 comments
17. 12 votes

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    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.

    by anonymous | 1 comment
18. 2 votes

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    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?

    by anonymous | 0 comments
19. 33 votes

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    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

    by anonymous | 0 comments
20. 1 votes

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    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

    by anonymous | 0 comments