The Ahoy gem provides a solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and native apps. Here’s how to add it to a Rails 7 application: This will generate an initializer file at config/initializers/ahoy.rb and a migration file in db/migrate/ which creates two tables, ahoy_visits and ahoy_events. Then you can use the ahoy.track … Read more
This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the :confirmable module in Devise for Ruby on Rails applications, emphasizing its role in enhancing security by verifying the ownership of the email address registered by a user. The Devise :confirmable module prevents the creation of spam accounts, bolsters the security of user data, and ensures that an … Read more
This is an example of http basic authentication on a Rails 7 app and an example of using ChatGPT-4 in a normal workflow. In the past I would have used Google to search this up. Now I go straight for ChatGPT. This was the prompt for Open AI aka ChatGPT-4Can you show me how to … Read more
A quick question I asked ChatGPT-4:Can you show me an example of user authentication for a Ruby on Rails 7 application? Here was the response I got: Sure, in this example I’ll show how to implement a basic user authentication in a Ruby on Rails 7 application using a simplified version of the “has_secure_password” mechanism, … Read more
Status Plan is a Ruby on Rails application that I built for work.shopMG, a Chicago based Property Development Management company. It’s basically a CRM for Property Development that helps the developers communicate with the tenants and the contractors to work out their deals and complete their projects. I built this from the ground up. Initial … Read more
Ruby on Rails tutorial Here is a Ruby on Rails example of adding a join table so that you can create a has_many Users through situation with Projects. This assumes that you already have a Project and a User model. 1. Generate your scaffold: Generating a scaffold here called UserProjects. It has two reference fields … Read more
Ruby on Rails add index to join table, generate migration 1. make uniqueness index on areas_deals:*This stops the association from being able to be duplicated, but throws an error causing bad UI, we will address that below** 2. Check the schema and make sure you got what you want. We wanted this added: t.index [“area_id”, … Read more
By far the most complex piece of software that I have built, Status Plan by work.shopMG is a Ruby on Rails application used in the property development industry. The majority of my last 5 years has been spent servicing a great company work.shopMG. We handle a handful of services for the property development industry including … Read more
If statement in Ruby on Rails Here is an example of the a way to do a simple if statement in ruby on rails to show content according to user level. In this application I am using Devise which allows for that current_user and user level checks. The if statement here, in simple terms says … Read more
So I have two models: (area.rb and areaimage.rb) Issue resolved here => area.rb – The Area model has_many :areaimages. The areaimage uploader must exist on area#edit areaimage.rb – AreaImage model – belongs_to :area – I need to be able to upload this on area#edit, and if it fails validation, I need it to display the … Read more
231 Web Dev Skill Set Let’s throw something down here. A line in the sand if you will. I am going to lay out what I consider my Skill Set to be… WordPress Development – Expert Level. Custom Plugins and Themes. Password protected user based corporate websites. HTML5 – Expert Level. Recently mastering the HTML5 … Read more