Pdf Writer and Rails Pdf
Yesterday, while trying an elegant way to add pdf functionalities to our last application, I discovered RailsPdf that acts on top of the well known pdf-writer gem adding the amazing ...
NMEA GPS and Google Map in 23 lines of code
Today I’ve found this fantastic example: GPS and Google Map with Python in 42 lines of code obviously the first thing I thought was how can I do this in Ruby?
Well it was quite easy:
First ...
HOWTO Put a controller under a SSL subdomain
Let’s imagine that you need to create a secure login area, for example if you own http://www.domain.com you may want to put the user login page on https://secure.domain.com. How can ...
PayPal Express Checkout and Ruby on Rails
While working on the payment system solution for Whodoes we had to face the big challenge every online shop has to:
How can I connect and dialogate with my favourite payment gateway ...
Create a color picker helper with FormBuilder
Create a FormBuilder
Using a FormBuilder is the easiest way to add new methods to a form_for block; to create a custom FormBuilder simply create a file .rb in your helper directory ...
Rake db:bootstrap and foreign keys
While working on our current project I decided to implement, for the initial SQL import, the db:bootstrap task from technoweenie forum but I found some problems due to this fact:
The ...
Pdf writer gem: history of a patch
Lately I was using this wonderful plugin to create PDF documents with ruby (version 1.1.3). It did its job quite well for what I needed it to, but when I was asked to hide the acrobat ...
Howto create a new action with a resource
By the time I’m writing, RESTful applications are in very high position in the top chart of the best software architecture for web applications. So why not to talk about this new ...
Rails Conference + Effect.Circle
It’s a while since our last post from RailsConf, in the meantime we worked on our last fresh application: whodo.es, answering to every feedback email we received and trying to fix ...
WhoDoes: our new product soon online
Driving a project to succeed is always been a tough job. We have been involved in project delivery for a long time – and we actually are right now – and we know how difficult it ...
