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RSS Feeds + Ruby on Rails + Web App
The Feedtools library is a very comprehensive and powerful Ruby library for handling rss, atom, etc as well as caching. It makes creating, consuming and manipulating feeds a piece of cake. It’s ideal...
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Stored Procedures and Rails – Part 1
There is no documentation in Rails about how to use stored procedures or atleast it is difficult to find where to look at. And according to DHH stored procedures is not the Rails Way to do things. DHH...
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Stored Procedures and Rails – Part 2
Continued from Stored Procedures and Rails – Part 1 Now we know how to call our good and reliable stored procedures but there is a difference when we get records from database using Rails...
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Database views and Rails
When it comes to using database views then most of us think that it is difficult to use them with Rails or we may not be able to use ActiveRecord with it. Since I experimented with it in the past so I...
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Formatting/styling will_paginate
I received few requests in the past ( personally and recently a comment on my post describing how to use will_paginate plugin ) about how to format pagination links while using will_paginate plugin....
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Do I need Stored Procedures? Maybe or Maybe not.
I have written a couple of posts about 7-8 months back (here and here) on how to call stored procedures from a rails application. After using stored procedures in my app for a while I started to think...
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Pretty rdocs for local gems
Bdoc gem provides a nice interface to move between different gems. To view rdocs for installed gems gem install manalang-bdoc bdoc the second step will open a browser window to view rdocs for them....
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Ruby gem for stock / finance data
A post on the yahoo finance / stock gem had been overdue for a long time. Last week I added the xml support for the result formatting and published a new version of the gem. So I thought its a good...
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Design Pattern Relationships
Useful diagram showing relationship between different design patterns from GoF.
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Url Shortener gem – bit.ly api wrapper in ruby
Url shortener gem came out of my need to tweet rss feeds to twitter every 5 minutes and shortening the url is the first thing required to do that. I looked at different url shortening services and...
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