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Handling Associations on Null Objects

How to use ActiveRecord’s NullRelation.
Sage Griffin
January 10, 2014
- Web
- Rails
Rendering Collections in Rails

Partials are a great way to break down complex view into more manageable...
Joël Quenneville
December 31, 2013
- Web
- Rails
Using Polymorphism to Make a Better Activity Feed in Rails

You won’t find “polymorphic partials” in Rails’ API documentation. However,...
Dan Croak
December 2, 2013
- Web
- Rails
A Tour of Rails’ jQuery UJS

If you have a look at the default application.js file generated by Rails,...
Derek Prior
November 9, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- JavaScript
Catching Invalid JSON Parse Errors with Rack Middleware

There is a world where developers need never worry about poorly formatted...
Dan Collis-Puro
November 4, 2013
- Web
- Rails
Better Tests Through Internationalization

Internationalization (i18n) is the process of adapting computer software to...
Derek Prior
October 26, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Backbone.js, JSON API, and Relational Data: A Primer

While following patterns suggested by JSON API with Ember may be...
Josh Clayton
October 2, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- JavaScript
Implementing Multi-Table Full Text Search with Postgres in Rails

Easily searching across an application’s data is a pervasive need. If you are...
Derek Prior and Caleb Hearth
August 16, 2013
- Web
- PostgreSQL
- Rails
Renderable Null Objects

We’ve talked about Null Objects before, and how they can remove unwanted...
George Brocklehurst
August 15, 2013
- Web
- Rails
The Perils of Uniqueness Validations

Your Rails application probably makes use of uniqueness validations in...
Derek Prior
July 17, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- PostgreSQL
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