Articles in the Ruby on Rails Category
Using ActiveRecord’s RecordNotFound exception to cleanly and consistently handle 404s throughout your application
Timing out and retrying calls to third parties When calling third …
If you haven’t used it before, the reaper script is useful for restarting your Rails application’s FastCGI dispatchers. It’s seems the reaper script in Edge rails now relies on the existance of PID files in …
Using ActiveRecord’s RecordNotFound exception to cleanly and consistently handle 404s throughout your application
Roll your own dispatch reaper script If you haven’t used it …
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I’m very happy to announce that for the next 60 days our …
When calling third parties you want to set them a sensible timeout, and you also might want to make a few attempts before giving up. Here’s a relatively succinct way to accomplish this in Ruby …
The Rails team have released another security update, 1.1.5. Update your code/environment.rb to point to the new gem version, or go grab 1.1.5 and put it in your application’s vendor directory. …
When calling third parties you want to set them a sensible timeout, and you also might want to make a few attempts before giving up. Here’s a relatively succinct way to accomplish this in Ruby …
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The SitePoint file server crashed overnight because of a massive influx of traffic due to our FREE download offer of “Build Your Own Ruby on …
Of all the graphs in The State of Web Development 2006/2007 report that SitePoint and Ektron published recently, the one that stood out the most to me was the one showing the platform currently being …
When calling third parties you want to set them a sensible timeout, and you also might want to make a few attempts before giving up. Here’s a relatively succinct way to accomplish this in Ruby …
At the recent Web Directions 06 conference Cameron Adams and Sitepoint’s own Kevin Yank gave a talk on Mashups and APIs, with a mention of JSON-P. JSON-P is a method of wrapping the JSON …
When calling third parties you want to set them a sensible timeout, and you also might want to make a few attempts before giving up. Here’s a relatively succinct way to accomplish this in Ruby …
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Rails provides a few caching techniques, one of which is a fragment …
By default Rails logs all your POST parameters in both development and production. If you are accepting credit card numbers, passwords or other sensitive information then all this data will end up in plain text …
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Rails provides a few caching techniques, one of which is a fragment cache. The fragment cache is a dead-easy way to cache bits of your …
In case you ve been living on another planet and missed it, this month saw the release of Rails 1.2, a major milestone for the framework. To coincide with this release, SitePoint this …
If you haven’t used it before, the reaper script is useful for restarting your Rails application’s FastCGI dispatchers. It’s seems the reaper script in Edge rails now relies on the existance of PID files in …
