12
May
2011
Daemonize a script or worker in Rails 3
A couple of gems allow easy daemonisation of scripts / long running processes. But as soon as you need to include your Rails environment you will run into problems. ... Read More
blog - rails
20
December
2010
Secure your forms with a simple Math Captcha
As soon as your application has a form that's available to everyone, you WILL be spammed! So what can we do about it? Well, one option is to have all forms secured by authentication... OR we can use a captcha. ... Read More
20
July
2010
Integrating Google Federated Login with your Rails app
When making one of your apps available on the google apps marketplace and you're not aiming for the full integration, pretty much all you have to do, is to allow a user to sign-in to your app using his google account. ... Read More
07
June
2010
Make rails render different views for multiple sites
We have an app that uses the same code (and instance!) for several clients. The clients need the same kind of app, the differences are with the styling and (sometimes) the content. ... Read More
07
May
2010
Thinking Sphinx with custom joins
Today we tried to add an attribute to our Sphinx index definition that uses an association with GROUP BY and HAVING. So we decided to fork and extend thinking sphinx.
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