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Using Always Up to run Ruby on Rails Puma Servers as a service on Microsoft IIS servers.
When I first began Ruby on Rails development, I was not able to use a LAMP stack. I was limited to working with the existing Microsoft IIS server.
Managing Multiple Ruby Versions in Windows
I ran into a situation where I needed to manage and work with multiple Ruby installations on Rails on a Windows System. Unfortunately RBENV and RVM do not run under windows.
I found a tool called PIK but unfortunately it is no longer maintained. However, the page at Pik led me to URU. Continue reading
Parenthesis in a Rails radio_button_tag was preventing onclick javascript from working.
I was working with some existing code where I needed to add an onclick javascript event.
I couldn’t even get an alert box to work. After a good bit of trial and error, I found the reason. I put in a line of radio button code from the www3 school’s try it and it worked. After closer inspection, I found that the original radio button had parenthesis. Continue reading
Showing the file name before committing to an upload of a CSV file in Ruby on Rails
This, of course, had to be done outside of Rails with Javascript/jQuery. Continue reading
Running Rails Console in production while using Spring
This one drove me nuts for a couple of hours. I needed to modify the contents of the user table in a rails app using rails console.
After a bit of trying it seemed that I was running the rails console in development mode. So, I tried the obvious rails console production. After checking the tables, I found I was still in the development mode. Continue reading
Validating CSV imports in Rails
I needed to validate CSV files that were being imported into a Rails app. The validation was simple: Look for blank entries, ensure columns used for associations (IDs) were integers and check that certain other entries were numeric.
The first thing I checked was to make sure that the header of the CSV file matched what we expected. The simplest way to do this was to set an ‘expected header’ and then check the header on the CSV. Continue reading
Creating Entity Relationship Diagrams in Rails.
I wanted to visualize the associations in a rails project. There are a number of gems that will do this.
I found the following guide
https://ryanboland.com/blog/creating-a-database-diagram-with-rails-erd/ Continue reading
Render layout position in a method
Where you place your render layout in your method matters.
I was debugging a piece of code that definitely was not giving me the results I expected. I was using a render layout with an alternate style instead of application.html.erb since this was a popup. I did not need the headers, footers and navigation in the popup. I included the following in my edit method:
Rails – Passing several discrete items to a ..each do |xxx|
I had a situation where I wanted to pass a handful of objects to an .each do in Rails such as the points of the compass.
I didn’t find any useful documentation on how to do that. It dawned on me that I could probably set up a simple array and add the .each do to it.
Below is a sample of how this word work in a view. Continue reading
Date Pickers in Rails (Internet Explorer and other browsers)
I was using the date_select for entering dates in Rails apps. For most browsers such as Chrome and Firefox, it works perfectly. The user can use a mini pop up calendar to select the date. Continue reading