General Ruby on Rails Forum

I'm building an API wrapper and struggling with how to set it up the way I'd like. Here's an example of what I'd ultimately like this to look like: ```ruby ServiceName::Client.new(api_key).record_...

Hi there, I've watched your CSV export episode and I'm using the exact same code to export the records to a CSV. I've got two tables: Orders and Sales. 1 Order has_many Sales and 1 Sale belongs_t...

I have a facebook/disqus like news feed in my app. Every action handled via AJAX on the posts index page. I have hard time figuring out how to do the russian-doll-catching when there are authorized...

Differences and pros/cons between Rails 5 new **Action Cable** vs **Mailboxer** gem? What are your thoughts? :)

Chris I have been using your implementation of navbar notifications and I really like the way it's constructed. I can implement Facebook style notifications and I am pretty happy about it. However ...

is there any rails gem that you can use to create a form builder that an admin can use to create a form for the frontend. probs something that works similar to https://ninjaforms.com/ . Any ideas ...

Hi Chris! I want to create a service which will show a heatmap with some stocks data in realtime (updated each second). Each second there will be around 100 new data points and in general, chart m...

I know it's a **turbolinks** feature but I don't know how to make it appear or how to do it, it's pretty nice the way GoRails handles the loading with that spinner and bar, how is it done? *Thanks...

I'm building an app similar to Yelp. The user should have a current location (taken automatically) and a chosen location (defaulted to current location). Each place should also have a location. I w...

I'm curious as to what people think is the best to create a new record, or save an existing record... as a template. The template would be used as a starting point to duplicate that record easily ...

Chris, thanks for this one. Notifications work like a charm. I was just wondering... How do I create different JSONs for different models? ``` json.array! @notifications do |notification| json...

Hi! I am trying to build a multi-location app from a client. I have tried dabbling with Apartment and other types of multitenancy but didn't receive a proper result. The app should have domains f...

Hi Chris! I see GoRails is using segment.io for analytics. Could you recommend me a good resource on integrating segment with GA and mixpanel? There are too many approaches like javascript version...

I've been searching online for a good way to manage Java dependencies in a JRuby on Rails app. I am interested in a way to structure the initial setup. I will have to use quite a lot of machine lea...

i downloaded fedena project which was developed by Ruby 1.9, please, how can i upgrade it to last ruby (Ruby 2.1). thanks

I have the following models (stripped down for simplicity) : ```ruby class Activity < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :trackable, polymorphic: true belongs_to :user has_one :comment, as: :t...

Context: I'm working on an app for my job with strange requirements. Unfortunately, I have to maintain a data structure that's accessible to legacy CF applications that were originally designed fo...

I was thinking about an SPA that has a like button. In "Liking Post" tutorial you wrote a method that checks if the current user liked the post, but in an SPA that means I will have to make a call ...

I setup my rails environment using the ubuntu installation guide found on gorails (amazingly helpful, thank you) but I'm not really sure how to use rbenv. I have a few rails apps, and I'm wonderin...

Hi there, In my rails app I have the parent model ORDERS with SALES as a child (as nested routes). So 1 Order has_many Sales and 1 Sale belongs_to Order. In my USER model I have the column "maxdis...