Posted by Surendran Sukumaran on February 5th, 2010

I faced one nice problem while using Facebox for one of our recent project http://www.dunnitt.com, thought i would take this moment to share the problem and solution I found.

Previously I used Thickbox based popup for the web applications, then I came to know about facebox and started using it in my recent projects. I am pretty pleased with its simplicity and configurations. It is also very simple to integrate with RAILS application. When i started using it in my Ajax pages, its wasn’t working the way it should.
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Posted by Vamsi Krishna on December 3rd, 2009

In my previous blog on ‘Advanced Auto Complete’, I mentioned about how to pre-fill the fields upon selecting a company name for a person along with auto_complete feature (please have a quick look before looking in to this blog). In the previous solution we are getting results of companies (as a LI list of company names) based on the character you typed but, what if the company name is not unique ?. Let’s look at a simple example, Thought Works company is located in Chennai as well as in Bangalore, so I want differentiate both of them and I want to pre-fill the company details accordingly. Read more »

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Posted by Vamsi Krishna on November 20th, 2009

After a long time I am writing this blog, I have to give a reason like everyone does (I am really really busy with project :(, I am not lying ).But, from now on I am planning to write at least one blog a month.
Anyway there are so many things I want to write about, but I am going to start with scoped_by in Rails.
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Posted by Balaji D Loganathan on September 22nd, 2009

Recently I tried to write the integration tests for a Rails app which uses Authlogic for authentication.
We decided to use RSpec for unit and functional testing, and Webrat + RSpec combo for integration testing. That means Webrat with Rspec without Cucumber. The fun started when we want to integrate webrat + rspec with authlogic.
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Posted by Neelkanth Ram on September 14th, 2009

At our company we use both SVN and GIT. I didn’t know that there exist many such SCM tools.
Thought I would list them here. (No, the Wikipedia doesn’t list them either). :-)
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Posted by Neelkanth Ram on September 12th, 2009

In Rails view, if you want to retain and display newline characters that was entered by the user in text area, then the simple solution to use simple_format .
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Posted by Vamsi Krishna on August 18th, 2009

Recently we saw an advertisement for a Rails Developer contract job in one famous Rails website. The potential client posted a small puzzle in Ruby and asked the potential candidates to solve and apply for it.
We thought we would reply to them in their style itself. ;-)
The below code was the email attachment we sent to them. Oops!.. Are we sharing lots of internal secrets. :D
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Posted by Balaji D Loganathan on July 26th, 2009

We won two “Ruby Best Practices” book in a promotion conducted by CodeRanch.com.
Congrats to my colleagues “Vamsi Krishna” and “Balaji Loganathan”. Here is the announcement made by CodeRanch.http://www.coderanch.com/t/455610/Ruby/Winners-Ruby-Best-Practices

If you are interested in reading Ruby or Ruby on Rails related topics psoted by us, please click the link.

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Posted by Neelkanth Ram on July 18th, 2009

Its been a couple of months that I started developing commercial projects using Ruby on Rails. Here are some stuff I learned which might be a good practices for aspirant Ruby/Rails developers.
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Posted by Balaji D Loganathan on June 29th, 2009

I just finished watching the video “Agilists and Architects — Allies not Adversaries” that was presented by Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons during the QCon 2008 San Francisco conference and was published by InfoQ recently.

It was a very interesting presentation and highlights the problems that Architects facing while working on Agile projects. The presenters neatly addresses the problems and the proposes the solutions. Read more »

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