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Hey does anyone know how to use Pundit to control a users ability to edit a field. I'd like all users to be able to change simple things like their name but I want admins to be the only one's who c...

In one of my Rails apps, I have the following architecture (as part of a current refactoring): - Contact (a lot of attributes common to all people) - Prospect (specific attributes to just prosp...

I was watching CodeSchool's "Feature Focus" the other day. This is where Greg and Carlos look at a popular site/app and pick a piece of functionality to focus on and write it themselves. They the...

What is the best way to store a set of constants like country names, currencies, city lists in a rails app? I was thinking of having a model named Constants that stores all this data and another m...

Does anyone have any thoughts or why this might be a bad practice? I am using the following code as the last route within my routes.rb get "*path", to: redirect('/') It seems to handle very well...

I'm having total brainfog right now with rbenv, so please excuse the newbie question. I have rbenv installed and my global ruby install is `1.9.3-p194` which I've developed multiple apps in. I'm ...

Alright everyone, I would greatly appreciate your help solving this problem. Here is what I'm attempting to do; I have an articles controller and all the related views to create new article posts. ...

In `Refactoring CSV Uploads with ActiveModel::Model Download` , you make a scoped class `User::Import`. When should we use scoped class like this? And, how does it different from `rails generate ...

Currently, i am searching regex rules for validate url. And i am struggled how to build this from scratch. Is anyone have a good resources on this topic?

I have tried several methods including PRAWN to generate PDF's. It seem there must be a better way. What is you recommendation?

I have tried several methods including PRAWN to generate PDF's. It seem there must be a better way. What is you recommendation?

I am building a contest/promotion app (see my other thread) and am now to the point at which I want to add users. I've used Devise in the past, and have also rolled my own auth system. I like the c...

I'm trying to add some view logic functionality to one of my apps. I have a "run" view that lists all runs and splits them up in a partial between active and pending. Each run also `belongs_to :r...

I'm working on a couple different apps right now. One is new and one I'm refactoring some new functionality into. I'm looking to add messaging between users in both apps. I'm up in the air on th...

Hey Chris, Just curious if you would plan on adding any videos using Angular, Ember or Backbone with Rails? Thanks!

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?...