Using Rails 4 engine/plugin helpers across your entire app
Sometimes you need your rails engine/plugins helpers to work across the host app. An example of this is my Gem Paginas. I provide helper methods to generate menu links, since […]
Getting tinymce-rails to play nice in Rails 4 and Turbolinks
I am using the plugin on a project and I kept having problems loading the editor on for the second time. The problems materialized in two different ways. On first […]
TIL some awesome ActiveRecord behaviors in Rails
So I started using rails about 3 months ago and it has been awesome. ActiveRecords was my first experience using ORM. I wish I had started using this a long […]
Adding and Removing Children From a Form in Rails 4
This is a topic that seems to get asked a lot and answered in so many different ways. I haven’t really found an answer that I considered full and easy […]
Handling dates when using Rails 4, bootstrap and bootstrap3-datetimepicker-rails gem
The bootstrap3-datetimepicker-rails is a very nice plugin that adds a nice date and time picker to your bootstrap based rails application. I started using it the other day and I […]
Using Devise to create a new Copmany that a User belongs_to in Rails 4
I was creating my first Rails app the other day and although the online tutorials are very useful, I couldn’t find a way to have my devise registration form create […]
Meeting Your Blog Readers
I know this is a small blog and the audience is very limited. I don’t really go to programing conferences so my chances of meeting people that might read my […]
Setting Up A Ruby On Rails Dev Enviroment in Ubuntu For PHP Developers
So I am trying to jump on the ruby bandwagon and just spent a few days trying to understand how to configure a dev machine. Now, being a PHP developer […]
How to get the Job ID in a KPL macro throughout the product lifetime
Sometimes we need to get the Order ID for use in our macros. This can be for any number of reasons, but what’s important to know is that you need […]
Object Oriented Javascript
So I was reading a new friend’s blog and found this article about object oriented js. I was already planning on writing one myself but he does a great job […]