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Amazon EC2 and MongoDB configuration for great performance – Josh Software Sometimes, we prefer using Amazon EC2 directly for our Rails stack. No offense to Heroku but we need a more controlled environment; and no offense to EngineYard as they don’t support MongoDB on their environment as yet. We were faced with several problems that …
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Converting HTML to PDF – Josh Software Rishi Jain 2012-07-25 10:06:55 One of the common requirements we face across many Rails project is to convert HTML pages to PDF i.e. convert reports, tickets or any other page for that matter into the PDF format ‘as is’. What has made our job easier is the number …
GoRuCo – the party never stops! – Josh Software Gautam Rege 2012-06-27 17:16:21 It’s not often that you get a chance to attend a conference that has your name on it — well almost 😉 Gotham Ruby Conference (GoRuCo) in New York city was one such conference that I attended last weekend on 23rd June. It …
Ruby back to basics – Modules and more de-mystified – Josh Software Gautam Rege 2012-05-24 15:03:58 I often teach Ruby at corporates, take some classes at colleges and speak at some events. Its great when I encounter aggressive and passionate programmers who question and counter question me at every step. These are some of the …
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Sencha Touch MVC application with Rails – Josh Software For sometime, we have been toying around with different frameworks to build cross-platform mobile applications. Our latest research was with Sencha Touch. This post is a tutorial to get kick-started. Installation To run Sencha Touch application you need: A running web server. I used a Rails …
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IndexTank – So long and thanks for all the fish! – Josh Software IndexTank got acquired by LinkedIn just a while back and I received a newsletter saying that they may discontinue services in 6 months. My tweet about this got a few responses from Pat Allen (@pat – the creator of Flying Sphinx) and …
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Language independant translator using haml parser – Josh Software Localization is usually necessary in every website. We wanted to add localization in an existing application with more than 100 pages! Now it would be crazyto go and change each view and add the unique keys in the .yml or .po file. I google’d and I …
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Overriding to_s method for BigDecimal instance – Josh Software requirement was to display decimal numbers which are having scale values present to be displayed in decimal format otherwise display them as integer. Output expected 12.23 => 12.23 12.00 => 12 While rendering any object on html page by default “to_s” method gets executed.So, i overwrote …
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Hpricot scraping in ruby – Josh Software Include gems/library required before getting started require ‘hpricot’ require ‘net/http’ require ‘rio’ # Pass website url to be scraped url = “www.funonrails.com” # Define filename to store file locally file = “temp.html” # Save page locally rio(url) < rio (file) # Open page through hpricot doc = Hpricot(open(file)) …
Passing commandline parameter (arguments) to ruby file using optparser – Josh Software Ruby file accepts from command prompt in the form of array. Passing parameters ruby input.rb TOI DH TimesNew Accessing parameters # input.rb p ARGV # => [“TOI”, “DH”, “TimesNew”] p ARGV[0] # => “TOI” p ARGV[1] # => “DH” Optparser : parses commandline …
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