Here is a simple tip to handle Record not found exception.
I found many programmers uses code like if User.find(33) then do something. If the id is not present then Active Record throws Record not found Exception which can be caught and handled using begin-rescue. But the simple way is?
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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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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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I recently started using online Mindmap from MindMeister (see https://www.mindmeister.com).
Oh Boy!..this is really cool stuff that was made out with Web2.0.
I feel this is one of the best way to capture combined thought process and communicate with our remotely located teams.
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RJS templates for Rails by OReilly is a cool book , If you want to learn how to give Ajax functionality to your website (using Rails) this is the best book to start with.

I searched for the source code of the examples given in this book but couldn’t find one, So I quickly prepared one and kept in google code as ProjectExpenseTracker. I also added few other features like Ajax based update and delete, index page and so on.
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Some people really hate working with Date Formatting because, it drives you crazy while doing so. The same thing happened to me as well, not until I shifted to Ruby on Rails. While I wanted to display custom date, I was searching in google to find some wayout. I didn’t find any direct solution, so I thought I would share my solution here. An excuse to write a blog.
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A small tip: If you happen to get the error “Ruby on Rails application could not be started” after installing Phusion Passenger with Apache and (more…)