Adding table column comments to a model file can be a chore, especially making sure they’re kept up to date as your schema changes over time which is especially important since out of date information is worse than no information at all. This is wher

CSV (comma separated values) files are a great way to export a collection of records for importing into other systems or for analysis of data. Here we’ll be exporting the records for a table that has a single has_many relation.

It’s always a good idea to assign versions to all you gems in your Gemfile. Personally I’d say it’s absolutely mandatory and not assigning at least a major version should throw an error, but that’s not up to me which is probably for the best.

Replacing record IDs in your URLs with the name of your record is incredibly useful for SEO purposes as well as making the links people share more descriptive and self-explanatory.

It’s also very easy using the friendly_id gem.

We’re going to add Pagination to an ActiveResource model using activeresource-response for handling ActiveResource response headers on the ActiveResource server side of things and kaminari for handling the pagination on both the API and ActiveRes

I've always been a fan of the various background noise websites like Rainymood. Unfortunately I've never been a fan of having to keep a tab open at all times. Because of this I put together RainBar whilst learning how to make OS X apps last year.

I recently had to set up CircleCI to compile SASS into CSS for a Rails project and wanted to document how I went about it.

This is part three of a series on creating your own gem. This part will cover filling in the functionality of our gem and installing it.

This is part two in a series on building a gem from scratch. In this part we'll be adding the specs for our gem's functionality.

This is the first in a series of posts where I build a basic gem using bundler and then post it to rubygems. Written as a way to keep all the details together for creating a gem whilst working on Faker-RPG.

This article is an extension of the Railscast video on exporting data to a csv file, you can watch the video here