Rails

ActiveAdmin is an invaluable tool for doing MVP’s or quick Prototypes in Rails. But most of the time I don’t want to include Devise or some other authentication solution. Which make HTTP Basic Authentication the simplest solution. This is how to (insecurely) secure you ActiveAdmin install with HTTP Basic Authentication: # config/initializers/active_admin.rb Rails.configuration.to_prepare do ActiveAdmin::BaseController.class_eval do http_basic_authenticate_with name: 'some username', password: 'password' end end

Introduction: As a developer working with Ruby on Rails, understanding how a request is processed by the framework is essential for building efficient and robust web applications. When a user interacts with your Rails application by visiting a URL or submitting a form, a series of steps are executed to…

When thinking about Ruby on Rails, routing is a huge chunk of what needs to be mastered. In this blog post, we’ll be looking at routes.rb, RESTful routing, and custom routes. The basics: When a user navigates somewhere using the browser, the application will look inside of the routing. If…

digits Method: If you have a number we want this number in reverse order, then this method is helpful. If we want to extract all the digits of an integer from right to left, the newly added Integer. 12345.digits(1000) => [345, 12] 12345.digits(100) => [45, 23, 1] 12345.digits …

In modern web development, building efficient APIs is a crucial part of any app. One of the most popular frameworks, Rails, provides a great ‘tool’, otherwise known as serializers, which offers a convenient way to separate the concerns of data representation from the controller. In this blog, we will be…

I’ve been in enough groups to see some questions asked over and over. One that I’m sure I’ll see weekly in every group I’m in is “what is the best pack” or “what pack should I buy.” There isn’t a single answer. Packs are like shoes, the fit and how…

You’re building a web application, the word “cookie” isn’t really new to you because your hand has been inside the cookie jar, but it isn’t until now that you’re taking that deliciousness into plain text, into the idea of sessions, authentication and authorizations. Now those cookies can also be found…

Ruby on Rails uses the Model / View / Controller (MVP) architecture, to separate the different components of web-based applications to promote modularity and maintainability. Model: The model represents the data of the application. It handles data storage, retrieval, and manipulation. …

Introduction: In the world of web application development, robust testing is crucial to ensure that your Rails application behaves as expected and meets the requirements of your users. Cucumber, a widely used behavior-driven development (BDD) tool, provides a powerful framework for writing and executing acceptance tests in a human-readable format…