Recently, we set up a new Rails project (named as app below), and our database.yml is shown below, so you can see that it reads from environment variables to set database names and credentials accordingly:
default: &default adapter: postgresql...This article explores the capabilities to alter Java standard library using AspectJ without recompiling source code of Java. It is highly experimental and do not apply it to production environment.
AspectJ...
Due to the dynamic nature of Ruby, it is hard to locate a method definition statically. Thus, we can only find the method definition accurately at runtime. Here are some tips.
Suppose we have an object called foo. We can use foo.methods to find...
Infinite scroll is very popular in web right now because it largely boosts user experience. Thus, I would like to share some tips on implementing a perfect infinite scroll.
Infinite scroll is user friendly, but may not be search engine friendly....
As a Rails developer, you should have worked with Sprocket to deal with front-end resources. This article highlights a key difference between require and require_tree.
When require is used, Sprocket searches the file from search paths. You can...
One-time password is deployed widely as a second factor of authentication to enhance security. As a developer, how should we implement OTP generation in the application and what should be taken care of in each implementation?
The most "naive" way...
As a ruby programmer, you probably already know that the code files in gem's lib folder are automatically loaded into $LOAD_PATH when you require the gem.
Today, I encountered a scenario that I have to manually load source code files from spec...
We have a rails app, and I am developing a rails engine (let's call it engine A) to attach to the rails app. Engine A is specified in the gem file of the rails app. Engine A is a wrapper of a public rails engine gem (let's call it engine B), so...
I was trying some feature today, and that feature required to modify /etc/sudoers. No problem, it seemed that my favorite editor vim can accomplish it. Open up a terminal, I entered sudo vim /etc/sudoers, modified and saved it. Everything was ok,...
It is quite common to have a component to display latest contents of the website. Our customer, a local leading online news provider, wanted to have such a feature also. We wrote a simple SQL query to get the contents and displayed them out as...