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The Jsonapi Resources gem is a resource-focused Rails library for developing JSON API compliant servers. The Jsonapi-Resources makes having your server compliant with JSON API specification much easier but i found the myself wanting to use a signleton resource. (Note: Continue reading Create a Singleton Resource for JSONAPI with jsonapi-resources ruby gem
A simple and naive way to swap out a image on mouse hover (assuming you have a mouse!) Continue reading a simple image_tag rollover for Rails 4
This was posed as a question by a new Ruby on Rails developer at a recent Toronto RPN (Rails Pub Nite), here are some sugetions for keeping up Continue reading Keeping up with Ruby and Rails in 2015
a new feature of Ruby on Rails 4.1 is that of “enum” which enables a simple, and very quick, mini state machine. The use case for such a feature is for a status field that has a small set of Continue reading Simple State Machines in Rails 4.1 with Enum
This is something I’ve built a couple of times over the years, particularly in building custom CMS’s. I don’t remember seeing it written up anywhere, but I’ve used it since the Rails 1.x days. The use case being when the Continue reading Building dynamic routes in Ruby on Rails site
a Singleton is a design pattern that exists to address a problem where you want to represent an object; and only one of that object can exist at any time, no more. This is to document that which is scattered or implied so hopeful this will save you (and me) from having to hunt and gather. Continue reading a DRY singleton Active Record in Ruby on Rails