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I have a few datasets that I need to import into my rails app. They vary from 100 records to 5000 which will span across a few models with various associations. Q.1: I can cleanse the data prior ...

I've got two models, Contest (has many entries) and Entry (belongs to contest). When I create a contest I want to be able to add some questions that would be dynamically added to the entry form... ...

Trying to wrap my head around the best way to handle this. I have an Event Model that has_and_belongs_to_many :event_types in my Event model I currently have a column for price.. However, what I ...

Hey Chris (and others), Switched to nginx from Apache and following the deploy guide for Ubuntu 14.04. My app (which is 3.2.X and Ruby 1.9.3) no longer serves the static images I store in public f...

Hi Guys, I've been struggling building an API for an iOS App to communicate with my Rails Web App. For authentication, I'm using Devise. How do I create, update and delete a user through the API?...

Hey all, I am trying to convert a form with radio buttons such that the radio buttons are just plain buttons. When selected they should have an active class and register the selected choice. I'v...

Hi, I watched https://gorails.com/episodes/markdown-emoji-with-html-pipeline-gem and I'm wondering 2 things : * Where did you find the asset_root of the emoji images? * How do you use your own Em...

I have posted a few related questions on this but now I am at a road block. I had this system working quite well and then I went to add to it and now I broke it real good! First off I just discov...

Just out of curiosity, how do you decide which episode is a "pro" episode vs regular?

I know this may be a personal preference, but I've always found it more user-friendly (from a student's perspective) to have the links (i.e. your github code and forum) open in a new tab.

I recently watched the [look into routing video](https://gorails.com/episodes/a-look-into-routing). I have a very complex routing scenario I have been asked to set up for work. I was hoping I cou...

Hi, I don't know if it's allowed here, to talk about other resources to learn Rails and ruby, but I'm looking for more intermediate-advanced guides and/or screencasts that are up-to-date I'm real...

Hi, Chris, I just subscribed to GoRails. Thanks for bringing us this great site. I really enjoy watching episodes, and I believe Go Rails has the potential to become one of the major resources fo...

Hi I notice this site uses Google Analytics to track usage. Is that the standard when it comes to tracking your rails apps? I know it is generally pretty standard in the case of my websites but fo...

I have a nested form on a Devise signup page. The user signs up and then they also fill out their company info (Name , Address etc.). My User and Company model are associated through a Role model...

Hi All I had some difficulty following this https://gorails.com/episodes/user-authentication-with-devise - screencast when it came to Bootstrapping devise. Chris' looked like a bit of extra editi...

Any suggestions for generating an .ICS calendar file containing multiple events from my models? Any experience with Gems(iCalendar vs Ri_cal), or anyone know of good blogposts, etc. detailing the ...

Hey, I'm using pundit with active admin and getting this error message Pundit::AuthorizationNotPerformedError in ActiveAdmin::Devise::SessionsController#new In the pundit video you show us in...

Your [tutorial](https://gorails.com/deploy/ubuntu/14.04) on configuring a VPS on DigitalOcean for a Rails app is great! This came in super handy while I was creating mine! Can you explain to me t...

I'm having a difficult time understanding the postgres section. I've setup a postgres user but when I type "ruby -v" with that user I get 1.9.3, whereas with the deploy user I get 2.1.3 (the correc...