Rails No-No’s: Using inline CoffeeScript with Haml
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with HAML, partly because if the css is clean, it can be a great thing, and if it isn’t then your markup will look r...
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Blogging, or the lack of it
As you can notice, I’ve been blogging very sporadically over the years. And I’m trying my best to amend that. There have been times of super productivity, an...
Learning Emacs
So, I’ve started using emacs in my daily development and writing process, after a couple of years using vim exclusively. Why did i do it? Mostly curiosity, a...
Refresh your elasticsearch index with zero downtime
I’m using a basic elasticsearch-rails setup on one of the applications I’m working on. The thing is, we sometimes need to make changes to the ES index, add n...
What I have learned from a hackathon
I’ve attended a hackathon yesterday, that was the first “real” one in my life, and i’m still a bit under the influence. It was organised by the great people ...
Running a freelance business
So, you have decided to start freelancing? I am really happy for you! It is a great choice, one of the best work related decisions I’ve made in my life. You ...
Working Remote
You are surely tired of your commute, every day, waking up way before it’s convenient for you, cramming in public traffic, with people around you, wasting yo...
Why would you want to become a freelancer?
So what are your top reasons you want to become a freelancer? Feel free to leave them in the comments section below. I will briefly give you my reasons for d...
Override https errors for regular http calls
Let’s say you are building a web app that has some secure user data involved in the picture. You have to secure it with https, that is a necessity. So what h...
Build your career (You can do better)
Let’s get this clear, this is not a rant against anyone, this is just a statement. But you must realize this, it is not easy and this is not a one week fix. ...
Dynamically moving div with jQuery
Surely there has been a instance when you are creating an application that has a sidebar and a main content div. In the case of content being too long, the u...
Calculating distance using geo coordinates in ruby
As the social part of the sites is growing stronger, everyone of us has to include a user’s location of some sort into the application. There can be many rea...
Rails Integration testing with MiniTest::Spec and Capybara
So you want to do integration testing for your application, good for you. If you have chosen MiniTest and it’s specing DSL MiniTest::Spec as your test frame...
POS printing on Android
So, you want to develop your big Point Of Sale(POS) solution on android but don’t know how to print the receipts. You have a few options:
Limit and offset in Oracle
If you are considering about using some kind of pagination like will_paginate or some pagination of your own flavor, and you are stuck using Oracle i have a ...
Integrating turbolinks in your Rails application
We are all excited in a new addition to rails plugins family that is turbolinks. If you have tried to include it in your application, you may have noticed th...
Will Paginate in Rails using remote request
Have you ever wondered why is there no remote option for will_paginate gem? It’s too complex and data dependent to handle all possible situations. I have mad...
Installing Rails Server on Ubuntu 12.04 with RVM, Nginx, Passenger and Oracle support
We have a new product ready and it is a Ruby on Rails webshop bundled with an ERP software written on Oracle Forms 6i. I will not go into the details of this...
Importance of installing your own development machine
If you are a software developer like me, every once in awhile comes the opportunity to install your new development machine. Some of the causes can be a new ...
Deploying Rails applications on Windows
Due to some legacy issues, and HP workstations being shit that you can’t turn the hardware virtualization on, I had an issue with one client regarding speed ...