There are a lot of search options for rails applications out there. We batted around with meta_search, and while implementing it, we ended up doing more and more straight sql searches. While this allowed greater customization and control over what...
LinkedIn javascript API
I promised a couple posts back that I would write about how I'm doing the linked-in authorization and posting. This isn't as easy as facebook, and there is really no good gem for it. The one that we did find (http://rubygems.org/gems/linkedin) doe...
Using ruby & javascript for Facebook posts
Allowing auto-post to social media is pretty hot right now. Here's how to do it via facebook. LinkedIn to follow. Get the koala gem. https://github.com/arsduo/koala/wiki/ Get your facebook API keys. https://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.ph...
Microsoft IE & paperclip validations
Found an issue today where a paperclip image validaiton works in all browsers except IE. I hate IE. Anyway, here's how to fix it. Add in image/pjpeg as a content type for validation:
Running shell scripts in Ruby
In transitioning an application from java/jsp/oracle to ruby/postygresql, there are still some java processes I'd like to keep (or rather due to time constraints not re-write). So I needed a way to call the java processes from Ruby upon user-compl...