Hi Chris, Not sure what the origianal intention was regarding the "watch later" button other than marking the specific episode, but I wondered if it could be added to the episode filter options....
Is there any videos for best practice security routines for Rails? Things to do or not do so that your rails app isn't compromised by hackers.
Hi, I have a paid theme from Themeforest that uses LESS. It sucks, but I didn;t notice at the time. I am using the less-rails gem and things were going OK. I am now trying to put together an admin...
Is there any resources or tutorials about uploading videos(songs) through Carrierwave and using Video.js ? I heard also that I should use encoding(ffmpeg) if I want to upload.
Some thoughts on API versioning: Why is API versioning necessary at all? It is required for when we want to make some breaking changes to an API endpoint, like stop accepting certain parameters...
The purpose is add product to cart, target is blank. After I submit(click) the form(submit input tag), the submit tag become disabled, how can I avoid this? I need it is always enabled for cli...
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...
I'm building a content management service which needs to send a webhook everytime the user saves a record. What's a best practice to send webhooks in a rails app? A LOT of tutorials are about re...
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. Howeve...
I'm not sure it's a good idea to release GoRails rails application only to subscribers or OSS. If so, we could benefit from some contributions on whatever features that you have planned to add or t...
I’m doing a thing where I’m rendering table rows: ``` <%= render partial: "choices_table_row", collection: @images, as: :image %> ``` Then, inside that partial: ``` <tr id="image_<%= im...
I have used keyword arguments for some of my methods before, but haven't really thought about why not use it for all methods with arguments? Seems like there is no good reason to have the calle...
In Rails 4 app i need to implement bootstrap modal when user comes for first time and accept the terms. I'm trying to do something like this: **application.html.haml** ``` ... = content_tag :b...
I want to add or upload multiple images in one product, but after I implement this , the active_admin edit product page error. in products_controller.rb, permit the images , which type is jso...
Hey! Just looking to learn how APIs work - and how I can access the Google Adwords & the Google Analytics APIs to get data from them and create custom reports for a client. New to APIs - so just tr...
Most web apps need the ability to accept payments from their users (whether they're automated monthly payments or just simple one time payments). It was such a easy process getting going as a Pro ...
**Situation:** A user enters the name of a venue they want to add. I query an external API and get back a list of possible venues they actually meant, which they'll then confirm. The venue model wi...
I'm building an app with data set up similar to this: ```ruby class Company < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :products has_many :options, through: :products end class Product < ActiveRec...
I'm designing & building an API for a company and have arrived at a decision point I can't figure out. we're providing access to records. right now they want to quickly integrate with one client...
I am using a similar set-up as gorails - devise for registration and stripe for subscriptions. I have separate plans for each currency were are going to market to (USD, CAD, GBP). But I want to...
Hi everyone I have LinkedIn omniauth sign in up and working on my Rails 5 app in accordance with the Devise guide: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/OmniAuth:-Overview I have some ...
Heya, I saw on HN the other day that USDS has released a styleguide/component system based off of Bourbon. I'd like to toy around with making a gem based off of the Refills gem that allows me to...
So Im building a user permits column with jsonb. jsonb column ```permits:{ bar_permit: { key1: [], key2: "Bar", key3: false, key4: ...
Requirement:: We have implemented Passport where any user can subscribe to this passport. I want to restrict subscriptions after 20 subscriptions happen. How can we go with this. Any ideas ?
I'm doing a very simple select field in a form which looks like this: `<%= f.select :phys_option, options_for_select([["N/A", "n/a"], ["No", "no"], ["Yes", "yes"]], :selected => @run.phys_option...
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...
Hi, I'm following the Deploy Rails guide. However, when I run cap production deploy I'm getting this error message: $cap production deploy DEBUG[be6b6bd6] Running /usr/bin/...
Hey Chris i am tinkering with deeply nested forms, all is well but I can manage to render the show with all 3 forms in one ... esp the last form. when its added I get non method error and i am sure...
Your In-App Notification code worked perfectly. However I'm stuck on what code to use to display a placeholder message if there aren't any notifications. You mentioned this briefly in the episo...
I am new to rails so this might be an easy question. I am trying to figure out the best way to add ransack to my posts index action. # Ransack @q = Post.ransack(params[:q]) @posts = @q.resul...
I've been looking for a really god material about how to create Authentication using JWT and Devise, after that consume that with ReactJS (Mainly the rails part, but the react is a plus) Some ma...
I following the deploy rails instructions on GoRails. When I tried to install Ruby 2.1.2 with rbenv, I got this error message: "no acceptable c compiler found in $PATH" I solved it by ...
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'...
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 domai...
Hi all, I posted this question on Stack Overflow for a problem I am stuck at. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30805987/using-scopes-to-order-users-with-most-votes-for-specific-time-periods ...
Hey Chris. This would be good for a screencast, well i'd like to see it for sure! https://github.com/tinfoil/devise-two-factor
I'm writing a React Native app that is purely informational (medical information), with a Rails API for the back-end. The first main question I have is whether its necessary (or a good idea) to ...
I have a simple form tag as given below: = f.input :email, required: true, input_html: {class: 'md-input'}, wrapper_html: {class: 'md-form-group float-lable'} and it generates the below HTML ...
Ryan Blakely. I'm a PHX, Arizona based Rails developer. I started learning Rails about 2 years ago during my senior year of college at Arizona State University. After graduating and working for a y...
I asked this question on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35519550/dynamic-routes-rails-4. If anyone has any feedback or an answer to this I'm all ears. I've been hashing through ...
I followed the [tutorial](https://gorails.com/deploy/ubuntu/14.04) on this site and deploy my rail app on the newly setup ubuntu server. the rails app is successfully run on heroku, so it must s...
I'm trying to extract the "text" element if the "type" is "Person" from this JSON output. I''ve been able to store the JSON in an instance variable @output and am using the following to begin iter...
Hello, I'm referring to https://gorails.com/episodes/export-to-csv?autoplay=1 is there an easy way to add a function to actually stream the file contents to the User's Browser, like described...
Hi Chris, Thanks for the tutorial. It really helped me a lot. Can you please post a video about How to install the public activity gem to show all the activities done by the user. Thanks a lot a...
Hey there, i have a few questions rg. your new product Hatch. 1. is there a Heroku-like way to insert a SSL cert or do we need to do that manually? 2. What permissions are we granting so you...
Hello Everyone how do i attaced a prawn pdf to email . I have implemented the prawn gem so when you generate a new form and add the .pdf ot gives me the PDF , which works. but now when the for...
Hi, I'm lloking forward using http://quilljs.com in a project and wonder if anyone can share his/her experience with such text editor. Related gems are looking pretty outdated (I'm using Rail...
I want to create a payment system using Braintree that will only charge the user once a certain condition is met. Lets assume its like freelancer and we need the payment to only go through when the...
Here's what I understand: * Turbolinks preserves the `window` and `document` from request to request * As a result, I should add click/change listeners to the window/document once when the js i...
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've created a multi filter widget using a search_field_tag, and multiple check_box_tags and I can't seem to figure out how to maintain the checked checkboxes state throughout the session. So for ...
I'm coding my personal website , I have a backoffice where I can write blog_post ( title , content , category and date ). I would like to make user comment my blog post without being logged in . ...
Just curious if anyone is running macOS 10.12 Sierra yet, and if so, how are things with your dev environment? Specifically with Homebrew and such?
I'm working on a maintenance planning/cost application. With the help of gorails, onemonth, codeschool and all other great resources I am almost ready to launch the first release. However I can rea...
What is the best way to generate SEO friendly urls? The Rails default is to put the id in the URL e.g articles/2 I want to be able to have a url like this articles/article-heading Prev...
I have case studies and site models in my database. I have a `has and belongs to many` association set up between them. ## site#show When on a `site#show` page I want to write the following ...
I'd like to reload an iframe when the images needed to generate the preview it will display are cached by background workers. However, I can't figure out how to get setTimeout() to work correctly (...
Hello 👋 I got into freelance recently, I thought I'd reach out to the veteran freelancers in the community to seek advice, things I'm curious about, are: * What is(are) the most important s...
Is it possible to have sign in and sign up forms on the same page,and after sign in or sign up redirect to the index page?like twitter or facebook?
I'm using the CanCanCan gem. According to the documentation you can define abilities. That is working for me. What I want to do is to limit the access to records, that contain a value. Something li...
So hello guys, All of us have great ideas, and all of us want to know whats next episode would be. So this is my idea. List of Topics with likes. Everyone can enter the topic that would l...
I've got a website where users can upload things such as a mp3 and the files are being stored on Amazon S3. If a user clicks the file it just seems to open as a streaming file in the browser. I...
I've been trying to add a notification system (bell icon on the header) to the app I'm building. The implementation I came up with is very awkward and I'm sure there's a better way to do it (maybe ...
Hi, I have been struggling with this error for the last 3 hours and its s bit frustrating: Here is the scenario I am trying to populate a select box with Team names that belong to a specifi...
Hello, this question is more conceptual, than technical one. Do you think that it's a good idea to handle different types of "access rights" and "roles" in third model like this? ```ruby cla...
I'm creating a jewellery product catalogue application and I need to store properties for each product such as material, finishes, product type etc. I've concluded that there needs to be a model...
Hi, Do you have any tutorials or guide on how to show/list all active "pages" & "users"? ex. Home Page, one "div" will list all active pages where the user(s) currently viewing or browsing and...
Hi all, I'd like some clarification from someone who's more expert than me, if possible. I'm currently having RVM and Rails *4.2.6* installed on my development environment in which I have bu...
The documentation for this gem is very shotty, and I can barely understand If you can help me setup the methods for the controller, views, toggle on and off follow button, and blocking users. That...
Hello, My app uses a gem that goes out to network devices. I want to write some specs that test my classes without going out to the network devices via the gem. I want to use test_double or so...
On what server is Gorails hosted? I'm looking for one for a project
Hi so I have a rails app with ssl from godadddy with a wildcard for subdomain. Now I move my assets to use CDN, but I need to use the ssl so all my subdomain use the assets with out getting CORS po...
I'm wanting to integrate Time Clock functionality into an existing Rails 3.2.21 app. I think I have an idea of how to do this, but I need some advice on the how to handle different scenarios. S...
I have a ton of many-to-many relationships in a CMS I built for work. I am currently using [Select2 3.5.3](http://select2.github.io/select2/) to assign these relationships. This all works well. ...
Chris, I'm thinking of moving to digital Ocean from Heroku but my knowledge on this topic is cloudy. Can you tell us about the differences between the 2 service? and benefit.
Hi I have added a column ( t.time "usual_start_time") to an exisitng table called Areas. (create_table "areas",) create_table "areas", force: :cascade do |t| t.string "location", ...
Hi Guys. Recently i ran into a problem which does not allowing me to render a partial as a JSON response for .json requests. Below you can get in more detail. I have a partial resides in belo...
Are there any ruby gems for this specific problem? Or should I just use ActionMailer from Rails? If ActionMailer are there any tutorials on this topic online?
My error log outputs the following, [ 2014-11-02 04:18:12.0511 23504/7f64e6a36780 agents/Watchdog/Main.cpp:538 ]: Options: { 'analytics_log_user' => 'nobody', 'default_group' => 'nogroup', 'def...
Firstly, thanks for the great Stripe tutorials! I just finished implimenting basic subscriptions on my rails app. However, I do have a few questions regarding emails. **Will Stripe automatically...
In my quest to ever understand rails, i notice that Rails adds a few JS files to the bottom on my page. Whats the best way to deal with this? Looking at the likes of AirBNB they don't have this...
Folowing setup: I got a rails app with dynamic content types. An user can create a content type and add fields (string, integer...) to it. Those are basically the smae like reugale rails models ...
Hi guys, It may be out of topic but got to ask and get some help. If We are going for Ruby Developer role (specifically for the Backend type), how do we showcase our skills ? Is it by buildi...
Great tuts, please how can i use this with devise? when i run rails generate administrate:install, it generate error... says admin is not a class, already have a devise called admin, also have a vi...
I thought I'd start a thread of articles and videos that are super high quality for software developers. Things that make you think and improve your thinking and how you build products. I'll sta...
Forum_threads Controller class ForumThreadsController < ApplicationController require 'forum_controller' before_action :authenticate_user!, except: [:index, :show] before_action :set_fo...
I messed up my .bash_profile while installing ruby on rails on mac terminal. I am getting errors like -(bash: touch: command not found) and (.bash_profile permission denied) when i open the termin...
No matter which test file does I run, it always raise this error. I don't konw how to fix this, thanks! ``` $rails test test/integration/about_test.rb Running via Spring preloader in proce...
Hello, I have two questions: 1) I would like to create a button that can generate a CSV file with one set of attributes, and another button that will be able to generate a different set of attr...
So i'm going through building the forum series and whenever i submit the form, it is just re-rendering the new form page. I looked in my server logs and I see that `Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authe...
Hello I'd really like to implement the following tutorial (verify phone number by sms) http://fullstackstanley.com/read/verifying-mobile-phone-numbers-with-rails-devise-and-twilio It doesn't w...
Hi, I'm trying to integrate mailboxer with apartment, and am having an issue with migrating the tables. I want the mailing service to be universally applied to the app, but apartment migrates th...
Hey everyone! Today I am releasing the GoRails forum. This is the place you can turn when you need advice for how to design a feature or refactor your code. I'll be answering questions here and ...
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...
Hi, I'm following this tutorial on deploying rails app https://gorails.com/deploy/ubuntu/16.04 About to reach the last step but it failed when performing bundle install as screenshot below ...
I have what I think is a working setup to send emails via `Delayed_Job`. However, I haven't received my test email and it isn't practical to wait for more to happen with a delay of days. I need t...
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 ...
Can someone give me an example of POST and Comment.. i did a scaffold of a blog for example but i am not sure how to integrate the part where you can link a comment to a specific post.... COMME...
Is possible you shed some more light on this .... which is the best approach in my event.rb i so fat have this class Event < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user def du...
Hi again :) I would like to know how to get my routes how i want them haha as we all do :) Basically i want to get the edit variant URL to be like `/products/:product_id/variants/:variant_id` ...
Hello Guys, I'm doing some research on how to handle multiple account types. In our app, we will have two types of accounts. **Parents** and **Schools**. These accounts will never change types, ...
Hi there guys, I would like that you help me found a tutorial to edit data on the same page and save to database.
From the [Sidekiq wiki](https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Best-Practices#2-make-your-job-idempotent-and-transactional), a Sidekiq job should be idempotent and transactional. How should we imp...
How do I use pushstate in a simple rails blog to create the effect that larger new sites are currently using: as you scroll to the bottom of the page, the next article seamlessly is loaded, the url...
I added paranoia gem to my cms application from your soft delete tutorial. I would like users to still be able to access the show page of soft deleted items -- this is where I would add a restore ...
I tried to configure a rails5 app (deployed on heroku) with cloudfront for assets and fonts. I could make it work for the assets, then I tried to add the config for the fonts as well, but I just sc...
Hello guys I have a problem with this! I'm making my website where user can give feedback to my projects, contact me and make comment to a blog_post. The problem is when i make the render 'blo...
Hi there, I need some help how to handle the rails console commands. I'm really stuck here.. I've recently added a new column (teams) to my Sales and Orders model. Both models containing the ...
Following along with the ActionCable Series. So in **irb** when i run the `ActionCable.server.broadcast "notifications:4", {html: "<div>Hello</div>"}` it comes back with **nil** instead of retu...
I am working on an app and I have already added the paper trail gem (https://github.com/airblade/paper_trail) to track revisions. Now I am thinking that I want to add Paranoia (https://github.com/...
I'm trying to install postgresql but I'm running into an error when I try to create a user: createuser: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to server: No such file or d...
Hi Chris, I've seen `simple_calendar` ruby gem and i stuck at sort_by method (calendar.rb) ``` def events_for_date(current_date) if events.any? && events.first.respond_to?(:simple_ca...
I'm scraping a anime information website. Right now, I'm trying to get the date going, but on some of the anime the date comes out as ???,??,????. I'm tying to figure out how to skip that or put so...
Hey Guys, I'm interested in knowing, why some developers choose ams over jbuilder and some prefer jbuilder over ams, to build Rails based API's. Cheers, Drilon
I'm new to Ruby on Rails, trying my best to catch up. for example... i've a domain and a username append to it, www.domain.com/samsoft, how can i achieve this and also routing? sample code will be ...
Chris great job with the Stripe videos. I've just been through and implemented them. :) The next bit I need to add is to stop my users access from disappearing the minute that they cancel. If th...
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 genera...
Hey Chris, like most people already mentioned, awesome content on GoRails.com. I love how you give additional explanation to how things work and not just a step by step tutorial how to make somethi...
I have seen this done in other rails application where you can search for a term and it would search across multiple models and return results from each. What is the best gem to use for this purpos...
Hi, i am using Devise and i want to a separate profile for each user with additional informations like address, phone, mobile, ... After Signup, the user should be forced to fill out his profil...
Scenario: Implement a registration with multiple steps and after all is complete, display "We will approve your application" at the end and wait when an internal admin (only to owners of the app) ...
Hi all, I am planning to create an application that will have several types of users with a couple shared fields and many unrelated fields. What would be my best option? After doing some rese...
Hey Chris, It would be great if users had the ability to opt-in to receiving new thread post notifications. Sometimes I like to just throw my two cents in, but don't really intend on following ...
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...
Hi Chris, It would be nice if you could share with us what techniques you use to make this site so fast, and if and how do you deal with scaling problems.
I am working through your Direct Uploads to S3 series and have run into a snag that I am hoping you can help with. Everything has worked as advertised UNTIL I added the js in episode 3. Now I a...
I'm not sure if i'm saying it right but how can i manage inventory for my products? What are some steps that i have to take to get started?
Hi I have a helper method, which converts currency to pounds. Is there any reason why this donest get picked up in the mailer templates, but works thoughtout the rest of the site?
Hello all! It's been a while since i was here, but i am back! So today I would like to get some opinions on a project I am working on. So here we go... What would be the best way to architect...
I've got the polymorphic comments working on the two show pages, but I want to show all my posts (and reports) along with their comments on the two respective index pages. I can't seem to get it.
Hi, I'm currently rewriting my js file following the class encapsulation episode. It works well but I'm struggling on with the binding/response for my image uploader. My view contains a form...
I followed your forum series and it's going to work out well for me, but I couldn't figure out how to display the number of posts on the main index for each forum thread. I'd think it would h...
Hi, I like to have my application to send automated emails summary to users. Users have multiple profiles that they can make and like to notify the users by email if there is more than 5 new profi...
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 e...
It would be great if can search through the screencasts. You will definitely need one once the number of screencasts increase.
I'm using Rubber 3.1.0 with Capistrano 2.15.5 When I try to deploy my app(default rails-devise-pundit) to production on EC2, it goes on perfectly till command finished in 2849ms triggering a...
I would think that i could do something like the code below but it's not working. How can i approach this so it can show the user who created the comment and other information about the user? I ...
Hey Chris, I have been trying to build a onemonth like sample website. How do i track the user's progress for each of his course. Just like onemonth all these courses have multiple episodes, and...
I was wondering if there is any way I can simplify this code, Ideally, I don't want to be looking up brands that are associated with the user, i want to do it on hit. ``` #Gets the ID associate...
Hi all, This might be a retarded question but how do I access things other than Models in rails console, such as Controller methods, engines etc.? I wouldn't mind seeing a video dedicated to con...
Hey Everyone, I'm having a small problem with the JavaScript components of the [Uikit framework](http://www.getuikit) and I know it has to do with turbolinks. Here's the gem I'm using [Uikit2-Ra...
We are currently developing a rails application for a new startup and we are trying to determine which front end and native app technology we should combine with it. We are looking at React JS ...
Trying to determine which way I should handle this. Normal User adds a post to our system, he then has the ability to update and delete this post. In the future he may assign other users the abi...
Hi, After watching the screencast about extracting JS code to CS classes, I tried to follow the same pattern. The problem I am facing is that the page loads new items through AJAX and in order fo...
Here is the Schema for Uploads ```ruby create_table "uploads", force: :cascade do |t| t.string "file" t.string "file_id" t.string "file_filename" t.integer "file_si...
I'm maintaining an old Rails app and am trying to have a my index action use a form_tag to pass the params of a region so I can scope the results of calls by region. This works fine and dandy, but...
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...
Hello, I enjoyed your screencast on implementing the @ functionality for user interactions. What I'm trying to figure out is how to handle the index.json.jbuilder when using devise jQuery -> ...
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 AP...
I want to have a user profile instance created in the database which is associated with a newly created devise user. The profile should be created only once and have a user_id associated with the ...
Hi there, I want to use the Sentimental gem to automatically check if an article is positive negative or neutral. This gem here: https://github.com/7compass/sentimental works fine in the Rails c...
Hey Chris, Your videos are awesome. I think it would nice to have some of the basic commands for using MacVim while coding.
Hi guys (and ladies if any), I have installed Rails with rbenv (recommended), but now because of significant changes between 5.0.1 and 5.1 versions, I want to start a new project with 5.1 (becau...
I have tried several methods including PRAWN to generate PDF's. It seem there must be a better way. What is you recommendation?
I've followed this link https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Allow-users-to-edit-their-password, but would like to just use the update action and not have to use update_password & u...
Not sure the correct words to ask the question are. Here is an example from what I have seen: `http://www.gorails.com/series/1?old_content=true` So say Chris re-did some of the screencasts,and n...
My users are all internal customers of our business. They are pretty information poor when it comes to our systems and processes and our company intranet is not very feature rich. So I'd like to bu...
Hi guys! I have 3 models: lectures > chapters > lessons With a has_many through relationship. The problem: each lecture should have a lesson with the same step for ordering. In lesso...
Hi I watch your tuts and it's pretty helpful. Always thanks! I have some question about database design. There are three types of invoice items with following tables 1) **SubscriptionItems**...
HI there guys. Im following this guide: and this is what i get ``` rvm 1.28.0 (latest) by Wayne E. Seguin <[email protected]>, Michal Papis <[email protected]> [https://rvm.io/] ruby-2...
Hi Following on from the my previous post I want to add a new time column with the default of 6.46pm I have tried this class AddUsualStartTimeToAreas < ActiveRecord::Migration def c...
Hi Chris! I've been looking for a good URL validator for a while, but all the solutions I found are kinda weird, so I'm not even sure if I wanna use any. Here is my usecase: A user can create...
Hi all, me again! haha So i have got my app working as i want so far. All is good and i am picking up Rails really quickly thanks to GoRails. I am however a little stuck, I can't seem to add in...
Hi all, can someone guide me in the right direction please? Basically i have dynamic options a user can select 1 or many of these items. I thought checkboxes would be good for this. The user...
Hi, Anyone successfully implemented or integrated "Lazy Load" for their rails app? Can I ask some guide/tutorials please. Thanks :)
So, I am making an application that is listing multiple businesses. I am wanting to have a label that displays open or closed for each individual business. Could anyone give me guidance on how to m...
Now the actual update is simple it's just @forum_thread.update params and redirect, but as you can see it redirects to the forum_thread which renders the show.html.erb which then causes @forum_pos...
Hi, Is there any screencast or project with Algolia ? I think it would be great !!
Hi, I did everything (and it's working!) regarding this episode: https://gorails.com/episodes/export-to-csv?autoplay=1 How can I add a download-button in my views for that? Thank you guys!
In my edit form I simply cannot figure out why collection_select isn’t saving the various values when it's nested. It works fine if I use a {multiple: true} and pull it outside of the fields_for ev...
Hi there, I just subscribed to GoRails and it has been really helpful so far already. 👏 I've been unsure about how to tackle the following situation. Imagine a Receipt model. It can have one ...
Hi guys ... and girls. I am interested in any advanced rails materials you might know about that are actually good. Most of the stuff is beginner level and something advanced is hard to come by....
hi, i followed your tutorial but still simple mde is been diplicated am using rails 5 ``` var simplemde; simplemde = null; $(document).on('ready turbolinks:before-visit', function() { ...
Hi, I have currently two Devise models Company and Contractor. When they sign in I want to redirect them to a dashboard page. At the moment I have a before_action on the dashboard controller ...
```ruby # Model def Event WEEKDAYS = ['sunday', 'monday', 'wednesday', 'thursday', 'friday', 'saturday'] end # Migration create_table :events do |t| t.column recurring, default: fal...
I see a spinning/loading icon on the right. In addition, I see the loading lightning-like animation right below the address bar, what gem is it? or what library are you using? Thanks. Tim
Hi, I need to upload a remote file to my S3 bucket (e.g., I get a link to a pdf e-ticket and I need to upload it from its location). In addition (as a bonus) what's the best way to allow users to ...
I have 3 models - `Items`, `Customizations` and `Property Maps` Property Maps has a polymorphic association with Items and Customizations The business logic here is, when listing customizatio...
I have found and played with awesome_nested_set which is _awesome_ for real. I was wondering if this is the recommended gem for managing tree data in Rails or if there are any others that would do ...
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 o...
Hi, I am looking for this: for a warehouse application for ordering and keeping stock for machine maintenance . i have multiple record of items that coming in. On Monday i received a it...
I have my DB already set up, and it references another table. I need to add in `:unique => true` so i don't get duplicates. I cant however drop the table and start over as there are items in the DB...
I've got these models: ```ruby class Firm has_many :funds end class Fund belongs_to :firm has_many :investments end class Investment belongs_to :fund has_many :investment...
Application Strucutre **Rails API** user model & controller - CRUD blog model & controller - CRUD comments model & controller - CRUD Standard Blog App with Knock Authentication for access To...
```ruby def partner has_many :centers end def center has_and_belongs_to_many :classes belongs_to :partner end def fpclass has_and_belongs_to_many :centers end ``` - I'd like...
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 ...
Here's a situation I see come up often. New developers (I consider myself here) will always estimate wrong. They will also feel bound to their estimates as deadlines. What's the high value w...
Hey Chris - been struggling with this off and on for a bit now. Just trying to add basic google maps using the javascript API (not the gems) to a rails 4.2 app and am having all of the various is...
I'm using both jquery and turbolinks on my app and because turbolinks don't make full page loads I need some of my js to fire when navigating between pages using turbolinks, I really don't want to ...
I wish to add a billing_address and a delivery_address to my Client's. So i thought i would make my Addresses polymorphic. ```ruby class Client < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :addresses, as...
Added the following to my chatroom_users_controller but keep running into a NoMethod Error. ``` def create @chatroom_user = @chatroom.chatroom_users.where(user_id: current_user.id).first_or_...
Hey Chris & Community! :) What text editor are you using for the GoRails Forum post? Im following the episode [Markdown and Emoji with the html-pipeline gem](https://gorails.com/episodes/mar...
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 ...
I am having a lot of problems watching the videos here the last couple of weeks. Multiple videos on different laptops and different browsers. The videos freeze constantly and I have to reload the...
I have a Rails 4 app that is fully responsive and works good on the mobile browser. However, I want to make native apps for it for iOS and Android. What are some recommended steps? Is Phonegap ...
How can I write the below operation, being handled by _group_by_ Ruby method, in terms of DB specific query? ```ruby def list_users @search_by_options = [:age, :location, :department, :d...
Hey there, I decided to start another post although I read this one already https://gorails.com/forum/pundit-scope-and-has_many-through but I need to confirm that my query is on point. Here's...
Hi , I have looking for an actively supported gem to implement a hash tag like feature that can easily be used as a metric in feedback that has a lot of text. I checked-out https://g...
Great job on the Searchkick tutorial! However, I'm really interested in faceted search for an application I'm building, and the documentation on the internet is not really good enough. Any ideas? T...
I've been following along the Forum series of episodes, when I try to submit a forum post, I get an error. It seems that the controller has trouble assigning the user id to the current user. I thou...
I have an array that has nested hashes of months, years and amounts that I want to diplay in a table. My data is in this format: [{:month=>"January", :years=>{2017=>20, 2018=>100, 2019=>300}}, ...
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 belon...
I have a project with Devise gem. I need to create a user with the admin account. If I am logged in with the admin account I can not enter the path / sing_up. How can I access this page?
It's good to have CDN enabled to speed up rails app but how can I do that with Cloudfront ?!
Hi there, Not sure if i've missed something, but i'm not able to get multi-day events to show over the date range using SimpleCalendar. From what I've read on the Gem homepage, I've passed in...
Hey Chris, First, thanks for all the great videos and for taking the time to answer all these questions! I want to make a gem for a front-end, Bootstrap spin-off, framework. I've watched your...
Hi so here is what i have : class Attendance < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :attendance_sheet belongs_to :user end class AttendanceSheet < ActiveRecord::Base ...
I am trying to use the Likes tutorial to create Favs for locations, which are nested under stores. Here is the relevant route section ``` resources :stores do resources :locations do ...
Hello! Can yoy help me? I have Ruby 2.1.3 and Rails 4.1.7. I use gem ( https://github.com/spohlenz/tinymce-rails ) and I do everything as it says, but i when paste this code: <pre><%= tinymce %></p...
Hi there, is there an easy way to limit the results inside a CSV export to a specific time-frame, like day, week and month? Thanks!
Hey, love the new Stripe video but I'm stuck on something. I am getting the error: uninitialized constant ActionView::CompiledTemplates::STRIPE_PUBLIC. It's having a problem with my meta tag whi...
I would like some help on how to build a dynamic dropdown menu with Rails Simple form. I'm really new to programming so any help will be appreciated. Many Thanks, SS Here is my Simple ...
I want to create an app which will provide to user the opportunity to capture from their PC (by using webcamera and Mic) series of videos and save them under his profile. My concerns/questions are:...
I have two simple models I'm about to create in an existing Rails app. One is a `NAICSCode` which has the following attributes: `company_id`, `code`, `name`, and `description`, the other is `SICCo...
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...
Hi Chris, Not really a rails question, but I just wanted to see if you could add a video speed feature as I can go through your tutorials at half the time. Cheers, Chris
Hi Chris! I implemented the notification system based on your video with the partials. Works perfectly. I've got some problem though when user wanna check out the notification. When he/she clicks ...
I'd like to get people's thoughts on the best approach. I'd like to have a search ability where once a selection if made, the next dropdown box populates with only the available options from the...
Chris and I were talking about starting a challenge/kata exercise for the community in Ruby/Rails. Based off of the idea of [Underhanded-C](http://www.underhanded-c.org/), we could post a weekly, ...
Hi, I am using AASM and i want to set the state based on the total_price of a purchase order. is this code below the way to go or can it be refactored. ```ruby before_save :check_budget ...
I'm trying to create a page where all my users are listed, and every movie they've added to their account. My UserController index def def index @users = User.all if logged_...
I currently have it setup to where only the admin can edit posts, but would like if the user can edit their posts but no other posts that were not made by them. Forum Posts Controller class F...
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 prio...
Hey I would like to add "working days" to a task model and "working hours" on a shift model wich belongs to the task model. So that I can select on which days a task will be repeatedly done and a...
I while back I was playing around building an app where you had multiple tenants (Company Model) and a single login (User Model). I then created roles (Role Model) to link the users to the tenants....
Hey Chris, Just curious if you would plan on adding any videos using Angular, Ember or Backbone with Rails? Thanks!
I just came across this article that talks about a gem that allows you to implement cleanly space specific javascript. http://brandonhilkert.com/blog/page-specific-javascript-in-rails/ Howeve...
I am using the Mailboxer gem. When creating a new conversation, the message that is created at that point is does not attach the file I am uploading. new.html.haml = form_tag conversations_path...
What is the best way for the visitors of my page (not logged in) to share models data (for example articles and courses) on Facebook and Twitter. I have been looking for an answer without really f...
Im building an app where a `User` belogns to several projects. Is this a good approach to create a "join table" that just tracks which `Projects` are connected to which `Users`? Is the `Collaborati...
working with pundit gem. Is it possible to apply the same rule to nested resources? if show is not allowed in lecture_policy then show in lesson_policy should not be allowed too. ``` Lecture ...
After email confirmation, devise automatic sign-in users, how configure devise to avoid that? ```rb # devise.rb Devise.setup do |config| config.mailer_sender = '[email protected]' end ``...
Hi there, I have been tinkering `lazy high gem` trying to get charts up and running, it works well with hard-coded data into the chart but when I try passing data dynamically i cant make some ...
I'm currently having an issue when I create posts, I always seem to get undefined method "username" or "email", but when using current_user.username or current_user.email it will display just fine....
In our rails applications, I generally work on the backend (models and controllers) while another developer focuses on the (Views + JS magic). Generally he gets all the fields available from a m...
I just finished with the [Liking Posts](https://gorails.com/episodes/liking-posts?autoplay=1) screencast. All good. I managed to create a User Profile. And now I'm trying to display the liked post...
I need to store different metrics about various companies. These will be present for every company: * revenue * ebitda * cash * receivables * employees * debt each one has attribute...
I need some seed data for my app. How do I seed Devise users, and always as images for Paperclip?
Building a app that uses ADFS is tricky - maybe making a screencast would be a good idea. https://craig.io/using-microsoft-adfs-with-ruby-on-rails-and-omniauth/ there is a semi beta solution fo...
Hey guys, has anyone advice on this one? Are there maybe better ways to handle document uploads in rails?
I am very new to rails and trying to build an app which can interact with Google DRIVE Api V3. I have scaffolded a Rails 5 App and used Devise Gem along with Google OmniAuth2 to authenticate and re...
Similar to the Hacker News thread, I thought we might start up a thread for anyone looking to hire a Ruby / Rails freelancer or if you're a freelancer looking for work. *Please lead with either ...
This is driving me nuts. I'm trying to set a dynamic start date of 1 month ago for a line chart using Chartkick / HighCharts. But can't find the right syntax.
Hello, I have followed along with both videos, but have come up with a little issue while attempting to generate a thumbnail within the success event. It seems to be automatically requiring the ...
Hi all, I want to save the brand_id i am creating in my users table how would i go about doing this? I currently have my code saving the brand. ```` def create @brand = Brand.new(brand_p...
Hey Chris -- Thanks for all the great content. I've been enjoying it for quite awhile; you do a great job, really. I'd love to see a short tutorial on how to take a rails app or a portion of a ra...
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I am not sure what the consensus is on the best approach to handling nested model forms is. The solution in https://gorails.com/episodes/forum-nested-attributes-and-fields-for can work, but doesn...
I have a Rails 3.2.21 app where I'm adding a simple form/collection_select field in my form. When selecting an object from the dropdown (or leaving it blank) I get the following error: ``` Act...
I'm getting a missing partial error even though my lookup context check comes back as true. My partials is in `views/activity_feed/` and is named `_appointment_set.html.erb` ``` <% @activities.ea...
I have two applications. One is Rails API consumer app and another is a legacy PHP one - which responds with JSON API. APIs are used for user registration and login. Can I use Devise for authentica...
Hi, how could I manage emails in the background using devise gem in rails 5? P.S. you know if you can use the "devise-async" gem in rails 5? Regards.
I have in *app/lib/action_dispatch/flash/flash_hash.rb* file this code: class ActionDispatch::Flash::FlashHash def my_method #... end end but when I call it in...
Ok. I have tried for 3 days and I'm not getting anywhere. I am building a small kickstarter style campaign module for several products that will be run through Celery. What I want to accomplis...
I've been asking a few question on scraping and nested association. Im running into another issue which is updating genres to each anime. I'm getting a list of genres, for example "Action, Romance...
I'm building an API based Rails app and I've one endpoint to list down all active users account numbers and gold balance inside that account. The requirement is: 1. Take all active users (kyc...
Hi Chris, I was wondering what else you would need to include to ensure all situations are addressed to complete the Stripe Subscriptions application? For example, I'm assuming webhooks for when...
Differences and pros/cons between Rails 5 new **Action Cable** vs **Mailboxer** gem? What are your thoughts? :)
Hey Chris and all other members of this forum.... I'm trying to create a single page rails site, for a new app that i'm trying to build myself (it's called Nibli, and it's on nibliapp.com). I...
I have tried several methods including PRAWN to generate PDF's. It seem there must be a better way. What is you recommendation?
I've got: ```ruby class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :photos end class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user end ``` Each user has a "shadowbanned" attribute (t/f). I...
Hi friends I got a kinda tricky problem which I usually would do through a nested form, but since I'm writing an API which has some tricky associations I need something custom (I guess): Firs...
Hey guys, how can one setup a service booking system where the customer can book services between 9am and 4pm on every monday and friday? Would you use the ice_cube gem to create timeslots and t...
Extend Sprockets to bundle mustache templates I'm trying to include some Mustache templates into the main JS bundle. The idea is to take `/app/templates/*.mustache` files, generate a JSON object...
I have two models Product and Product Properties. So, I store the properties for products in the Product Properties model which is associated with another model Properties How can I implement a ...
Followed the series on action cable notifications and setup the meta tag so that action would not try to connect if the meta tag was present. Here is my code. ``` $(document).on("turbolinks:loa...
I'm working on a simple CRUD Asset Management app and I want to use Ransack. I think I have this setup properly in my view and controller but each time the index view is hit I get the exception: ...
I have created a form but I'm having issues submitting the form, it's not getting the right route, I'm sure this is a simple fix, I'm just not seeing it. Here are the relevant files: `new.htm...
In my app I have restaurants which have a name, address, state, zipcode, country, and some other stuff. These restaurants have many locations, and each location belongs to a restaurant. The locatio...
Hi, I need your help on how to check ruby version installed on my system and same as rails. And maybe remove them if necessary if. Thanks
So I have been tasked with a project where I have 3 entities, say a retail shop, wholesale shop and a manufacturer. Each have their own schemas (each shop has its own subdomain). All three entities...
Hello all! Hope you all have a great holiday and heres to an awesome 2017 to you all :) One of my goals for 2017 is to learn new stuff. One of the things i want to do, is to expand my understa...
Is there any way you can provide us with the source code for the episodes?
Hi Chris im doing the episode 'liking posts' i have difficult to do with deep nested resource, my actual nested resources looks: A. Routes: ```ruby resources :users do resources :...
I'm at a loss. After finally successfully deploying using Capistrano, and finally figuring out why my assets were missing, I have another issue. I have a link that point to static pages (contact)...
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 versi...
Hi! Thank you Chris for your great videos. I live in Sweden and I'm trying to set up a stripe monthly subscription on my site and need to collect the correct vat from my users which I'm required...
Hello, I made it past the phone screening and the next stage is that a robot will email me a project and I have a three hour window to complete it and then email them the results. This is for a...
Hi, Been going round in circles for a day or so but still can't seem to find a solution for this. I have project management chat app that on sign up, you create the project and the first chat me...
Hi My rails app production server CPU usage sometimes reaches to 100% and making app to be unresponsive. We are using Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS server and configured Rails app along with Nginx and pas...
I'm working on a project management app that is organized into 3 panes: Project list | Task list | Task details views/_sidebar: has a form to create projects projects#show: has a form to cre...
I've been deploying several toy apps on the same server, but after I'm finished with them I would love to easily be available to delete them using Hatch's interface, instead of having to SSH into t...
Hi, I was thinking of a way when the user login for the first time they get redirect to a welcome page where they take some steps into maybe a tour or fill some important fields to getting started....
Let's say I have a scaffold called 'blogs', and blogs have an attribute called 'subdomain'. I want to have each blog be hosted at a subdomain; let's say I have a blog with a subdomain of 'gorails',...
```"livraisonlog"=>[{"vente_id"=>"3", "type_liv"=>"L", "produit_id"=>"57", "qte"=>"4.0"}, {"vente_id"=>"3", "type_liv"=>"L", "produit_id"=>"66", "qte"=>"5.0"}, {"vente_id"=>"3", "type_liv"=>"L", "p...
Hello, Rails 5.1.0 & Turbolinks5 & Jquery3.1.2 here I'm trying to make jQuery Colorbox works with dynamicly loaded elements (using ActionCable) with no luck. With the implementation below,...
Hi, I'm deploying my Rails app, using this website's Deploy Rails guide. Something is not really clear, at the end of the guide, under the section 'Adding The Nginx Host' it says: "Ope...
I've checked out the videos on importing data to your rails app. Very timely as I am deep into this feature bringing data from all our legacy systems into my rails app. My issue is I am importin...
So I have a ssl certification that I want to apply to my rails app. Im using puma on Heroku.
My question is about this Episode: https://gorails.com/episodes/upload-csv-form The CSV Import works fine (I'm using the exact same code actually). My 1. Question - How can I define an alias ...
Can you make a Follow system with devise that updates via ajax? Thanks!
HI Chris, I'm new to here and new to rails. i saw your screencast about stripe payment gateway, i learn lot from that video.. i need to ask for favor. could you please make another screencast ab...
I'm trying to figure out if I should move some of the stripe payment processing and invoice lookups etc.. to background jobs. Any suggestions for a simple membership type site? Here are a coupl...
I've got a bunch of images thumbnails in an admin area. Wherever one appears, I'd like to be able to click on it, open up a modal with a form, and let the attributes of the image be edited from tha...
Here are my models (User , Project and Task) A user has many projects , a project has many users , A project has many tasks and a tasks belongs to a project , a user has many tasks and a task belo...
So I'm in the middle of this project and I thought I could figure it out on my own, but it appears I am in over my head here. So any advice/help you can give me would be great. Basically I'm tr...
I have been working on creating a Medium clone to learn Ruby on Rails. It started out as just a plain Rails app but as the app evolved I started using React in the front end (using react-rails gem)...
After adding the activeadmin gem, my previous style changed , How can avoid this? Previous style is :  After adding the...
Hi . Can you help me ? When i start : cap deploy production, i have errors: 1. rake stdout: Nothing written 2. rake stderr: syck has been removed, psych is used instead How can i resolve them?
I've gone into problem when my test db is using sqlite and I use postgres in prod Sqlite doesn't have `inet` attribute like postgres and I went into some old migration that I don't use anymore. S...
Hi there, I am curious what others a doing for large scale managed hosting. Currently we managing our own AWS and I would like to hand those duties over to a 3rd party. I am looking at Heroku but...
So I'm using Refile and I'm trying to migrate some existing data that I need when I seed the database (migrating to Refile from existing solution and need to keep existing data). When I try tes...
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...
how can I schedule to gather data with nokogiri and store it(only what has changed) in a db every morning?
Running into a strange error, everything works perfectly fine in Safari/Firefox. However, when launching in Chrome functionality completely halts after adding ```notifications.coffee```. Is there...
my destroy action def destroy @owner = User.find(params[:id]) @owner.destroy respond_to do |format| format.html { redirect_to root_path } format.js {} end my index page de...
Hi, on my index page i want to place a button for each record where i can switch the state from active to inactive or from inactive to active. the button should change without refreshing the pa...
Hi, I'm creating a multi tenant application using the apartment gem based on the video about multitenant here in gorails. The model I choose was the Account instead of Users so I can have sev...
I have 2 models, Orders and Order Items. I want the user to be able to add any number of items to an order in the view. How can I structure a form so that I can iterate over the order items or i...
I have a Center model and a Department model. The linked :through the Local model. However, I want to avoid inserting the same match twice in the Local table. Do I use a validate statement or th...
I'd love to see a series on a **_real world_** app using **ReactJS** with Rails API.
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...
Can you make an episode on this! I've gotten to the point of adding recurrence rules, but having trouble generating and showing events that are recurring on future dates the same way they appear r...
Has anybody used searchkick with a scoped model? I have an `Article` model with `scope :published, ->{ where(status: "Published") }`. So In my `ArticleController` I did the following: ``` qu...
Hi, i have no idea how to choose best way. There are three models User, Department and Task. Each user assigned to one department (belongs to). Department has many tasks. How to write a policy or s...
Hi Chris, I'm interested in implementing a feature similar to Youtube's watched feature. Where after you've watched a video, a small semi transparent overlay is placed over the video thumbnail ...
Hi Chris! At the moment I have product and industry models with has_many :through associations, and would like to list the products based on the industries. I'd like to create a category (in my...
Posted this to serverfault too, but I'm still stuck: I have a server that keeps trying to brute force hack via xml-rpc post on a wordpress site (I know, I know). I've blocked the ip address in ...
Hey guys, a while ago, I tried to follow a railscast tutorial(notably http://railscasts.com/episodes/197-nested-model-form-part-2?view=asciicast) on nested models where i was trying to build a sur...
Hi, I'm starting the forums tutorials, and I keep get this bundle error. I've tried bundle update and get the same thing: Bundler could not find compatible versions for gem "sprockets": In...
ActionView::Template::Error (First argument in form cannot contain nil or be empty): 1: <%= form_for [@forum_thread, @forum_post] do |f| %> 2: <h3> Reply to thread </h3> 3: <div ...
Forum_Posts Controller class ForumThreads::ForumPostsController < ApplicationController before_action :authenticate_user! before_action :set_forum_thread def create @forum_post = @...
Hi again, I want to know if there is a better way to get a list of categories which only have products. I have tried to do [email protected] = Category.where(category_type: 'product').order(name: ...
Hi Chris Would you be willing to share your dotfiles? Your terminal seems so clean. Why iTerm? Do you have git information integrated into the prompt? What do you think of [YADR] (http://skwp...
Hey there I am trying out a dynamic select box with rails 4 and I am stuck on where to put the js code because the form exists in a nested form. So should the code go in the js file for the form ac...
Have a way to a "has_many" return a array instead of object? ```rb class UserSerializer < ActiveModel::Serializer attributes :id, :name, :nickname, :image, :roles has_many :roles end ...
Hello, I have a problem and just missing the solution. In my project I have user accounts made in devise that are connected to **Case** model through **Work** model (with *is_admin* boolean attri...
Hey everyone, Just posted this question to stack overflow but thought I'd give it a try hear. I've been trying to figure out how to scope ransack searching for a couple of weeks but haven't figured...
How do I post comment with ajax in rails 4.2 ? Can I please have a detailed example?
Hi Chris! Is it possible for you to add or create screencast on how to integrate this cool "reaction" features? :) Thanks! 
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 ...
User wants to search for classes nearby according to date similar to [classpass](http://joliepagaille.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Picture-1.png) ### Backend Form fields for creating class by...
I liked the shrine tutorials and would like to use that as an upload to local disk solution. I also found a gem called youtube-dl (https://github.com/layer8x/youtube-dl.rb) to help download from Y...
I have three models called Site, Model and ModelSite as shown below. If i create a new model_site i can choose a site and model to save which works good but what i need help in is how can i choose ...
Hi there, I`m using the CSV Upload as described in one of your pro-tutorials. The code loops through the csv and adds records to the specific table. But if there is a whitespace inside a row...
Has anyone used either https://github.com/andrewculver/koudoku or https://github.com/payolapayments/payola ? If yes, are you able to give any feedback regarding ease of use, ability to customise, e...
I have an app designed that I have classrooms and I want to "enroll" students in the class en mass. For example I want to be able to search by name and either add by an enroll or add button or a c...
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...
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...
Hi, I deployed using the "Deploy Ruby on Rails" guide. However I paperclip attachments no longer work in production. Got the below error: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a...
```ruby Fpclass(id: integer, name: string, start_time: time) Fpclass.first.start_time # 2000-01-01 01:01:00 UTC ``` I'm having problem with comparing time field while fetching result...
I have something along the lines of this: case request.request_parameters.keys.first when "new_subscription_notification" when "canceled_subscription_notification" deactivate_subscri...
Hey guys, what are your thoughts on RSpec vs Mini Test. Which one do you use and why? Cheers, Drilon
I'm able to show a stream of activity for each user in their profile. What I'm trying to figure out is how i can have a book show one time with the activity that a specific user provided on the sid...
The setup guides on the site recommend using Rails 4.2.6. I'm curious to know if we should be using Rails 5 now as it's been out for almost a month? Cheers
Hi all, I am getting this error when i reset passwords - it throws to this error message. It still sends out the email, and allows me to reset the password. Any ideas whats causing this so i can f...
I'm trying to learn how to use react in my rails 5 app. I've just finished following Kenny Hibino's you tube series for his medium clone. He used react-rails gem, but then realised he wanted to...
I've been thinking, since assets compillation suppose to be performed during production deployment, it is irrelevant to make Bundler to require `uglifier`, `sass-rails`, `therubyracer` and may be s...
Hi there, this is very basic thing but How do I populate controls in my form with data from database ? For example let say I want to create a Invoice / Order of items from my product list. I...
Hi all, I'm upgrading my rails 4.2 app to use turbolinks 5 as per the gorails ep but I've ran into a problem. I'm using zurb foundation framework with offcanvas menu when I open the menu and ...
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 wonder...
Is it possible to read the file, in my case image file, inside Paperclip::Attachment before the file is saved? I need to send the image to an api first and then from the response it's given if ...
Hi Chris , I am following the notifications screen here : https://gorails.com/episodes/in-app-navbar-notifications?autoplay=1 all is well no errors but when i create a post the notifications a...
I'm building an events app using Rails and Stripe to handle payments. I've used javascript for my booking page in order to allow a user to book and pay for multiple spaces rather than just one at a...
Curious if anyone has tested it? Don't want to upgrade until I know everything in my stack works correctly without a ton of pain. TIA
A cast about how to do authorization with ActionCable. Example is a Chat with multiple chat rooms and messages should only be sent to rooms / people who have access to the given chat room.
I use capistrano to deploy my Rails app to my VPS, but after every deploy when I visit my page I get an error. The log says: I, [2014-11-04T08:20:16.659289 #12482] INFO -- : Started GET "/" f...
Hey! At the moment I have a user and a product table and products are created by users. So the user can create his own product he is working on. User `has_many :products` and `product belongs_to...
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'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 ...
Hi there, I want to allow a user to select multiple brands and teams in a select form field. I am using the user's input to create CSV through running a query. So far I only can query single...
I'm trying to create a sign_up form where the user will choose his email + password AND and Article at the same time as creating a user account. So assentially, one form will create a new Use...
For a rails/devise project I'm trying to figure out how to have the same devise login (email/password) work for multiple apps on different domains. I can't figure out if this would that be conside...
I am developing a Rails app that has a `Task` model. It's like any basic task tracking system where you can set some attributes (name, activity, status, priority etc.) and a due date. For my syst...
I've used your guide to [deploy a Rails app](https://gorails.com/deploy/ubuntu/14.04) to a DO droplet -- which was extremely helpful! However, now I'm at the point where I'd like to take advantage...
I'm playing around with elasticsearch and searchkick, but I can't seem to get search_data working. Searchkick seems to ignore it all together. If I only put one attribute in, it still searches o...
Hey guys, I'm trying to figure out how the user authentication works with mobile apps that consumes the Rails API. I know I can send a POST request to the server to register the user and then gene...
I just watched your screencast on using Devise for user authentication and learned quite a bit. However, I not only want to create a web app but I'd also like to provide a JSON API as another way ...
app/views/forum_posts/_forum_post.html.erb <%= div_for @forum_post do %> <div class="pull-avatar-left" style="padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><%= image_tag forum_post.user(:size => ...
I've been creating a test app for a couple of weeks know, and want to have a tagging system. It would also be cool if it was polymorphic, so multiple models could have tags. Thanks!
 Hi @chris! Is it possible for you to create a screencast with t...
I've declared custom routes in my app for a few of the devise actions, they are as follows: ```` devise_scope :user do get 'signup', to: 'devise/registrations#new', as: :signup get 'log...
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. ...
Hey all! I've got an interesting question, and I'm sure you're all handling it in different ways. I know there are plenty of ways to tackle this problem, so I was interested in what everyone's d...
I need to assign the current_user ID to all new projects, tasks and comments created in my app. I got projects and tasks working fine, but for some reason comments are giving me trouble. Here's ...
When a user signs up, i ask them for their company name so i can then associate that user with a company. How would i go about doing this? I am using devise, so somehow i will need to store the com...
# Problem I have an event that starts Jan 1, 2017 and repeats every day until Dec 31, 2017. If I search for an event (using [ransack](https://github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack)) that starts ...
Im working on a rails app where Users can create a “project”. Project, has many datafiles. Users upload multiple files direct to Amazon S3 (im using carrierwave). I'd like Users to have the abi...
Hi! I can use a little help to get on the right track. I have 3 models ```ruby class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :associations has_many :items, through: :associations end ...
Database Structure Hello people. I have my first proper paid Rails project to start soon, so I’ve been thinking about the database and the associations. The two links below are the databases...
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 ...
Hey Chris (and everyone else) - Have you played around much with Turbolinks 3 partial replacement? (Chris, I wathed your livecoding segment; was great, thanks.) I'm using it with Rails 4.2.5, and...
Lets say we have a Company model which accepts_nested_attributes_for User (devise Model) How do we Save both a company and User model having that a Company has_many :users and a User belongs to ...
I am using Shrine as you described in your *Direct File Uploads to S3* episodes. It works fine, although I had to make a few minor tweaks to suit Bootstrap 4. One thing is troubling me: all files a...
I've ask this question once but not clear on implementation, i've a multi tenant application using different template (View). Every tenant required to setup and choose template from setup. after th...
Hey there! I've got a collection of models (Product) and each product has an attribute called `sort_index` that allows the store owner to set a specific order for their products. The UI allows t...
Hi there, first of all: I'm pretty new to Rails, so please don't blame me if I ask a stupid question :) I use devise + cancancan for authentication and authorization. The user model is alread...
Hey i have some problem with devise. I already created devise model for User and after that i run command rails g devise:views without user at the and. And now i decided that i must to have couple ...
Saw in the comments the fix for ```(REQUEST_METHOD: GET, HTTP_CONNECTION: Upgrade, HTTP_UPGRADE: websocket)``` however I added the following to my ```development.rb```: ``` config.action_cabl...
Hey Chris, Just watched and implemented the code from this screencast and it's working well. However, I realised that it only works on first page load. Subsequent pages do not run the function....
Hello everyone! I'm new to Rails (and at coding in general) and english is not my mother tongue, so I might say clumsy stuffs, so please bear with me :D I'm finally ready to launch my first a...
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to display a users profile image, along with their username in an autocomplete dropdown. The autocomplete functionality works fine, I'm just having trouble displaying ...
I'm trying to deploy my local Rails app to my Digital Ocean VPS using the GoRails guide > https://gorails.com/deploy/ubuntu/14.04 But I'm running into a error when I want to deploy: cap p...
So i have set up my forum with simpleMDE and i'm using RedCarpet to parse the markdown. Everything works great except when it parses the markdown, it adds extra set of `<p>` tags before and after m...
I am using the Mailboxer gem. I have enabled multiple file uploads for the attachment field. What is the best way to set up my controller so it saves all the attachments? Would making a new model c...
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 ...
For example, let's move to episode "using VueJS for Nested Forms in Rails" and adding model called Position, which association with a Player (belongs_to). And how to implement select tag for choos...
Hi, I would love to see a episode that explains the use of json/ajax and load and save back data back to the server. For example i want to use handsontable (http://handsontable.com/) but i cant ...
Hey guys, So I'm following [a tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Pu_28yvdI&t=4025s), and around the 1 hr mark, he starts adding the styles. When I tried to reproduce it, it would not r...
I've read a lot about this and I understand that it involves REST webhooks, but I'm struggling to get it to actual work. I'm not sure how to actually get my app to tell Zapier that something has be...
Hi Chris. Would it be possible to add a feature on GoRails in order to manually "mark as watched" an episode? When I randomly select an episode to watch, I would like to list only those that I ha...
Presently i have a list of the places what i've looking for and latitude / longitude numbers for them and i come up with somewhere about spatial indexing to search for nearest locations within my ...
I apologize for the newbie question. But, I've been trying to create a special type of association and all my efforts have been failing. I would like to give users the ability to select their home ...
I have a has_many :through relationship between a few models that *almost* works. My goal is to allow users to be assigned to projects and/or tasks. Everything seems to work except user_id's are...
Hi, I am playing around with node.js and see promises everywhere even with db transactions. I was wondering why it is so different from rails. For instance: var db = require('mongodb-...
Hi Chris, Checkout mt simple scenario below: I am trying to get the total count of all absent and present person from an attendance sheet here are my models. class AttendanceSheet < Act...
Hi, I have this model structure ``` /models /survey /questions question.rb survey.rb ``` I have used this autoloading in my application.rb so I don't have to deal with mo...
Having some trouble figuring out what I'm missing with submitting a message in the chatroom, I get the error for my ```messages_controller.rb``` saying that ```can't write unknown attribute `user_i...
I would like to know how i can change the redirect path so that when my editing a user fails it redirects back to `users/edit` and not to `/users`. To replicate this i am entering a duplicate em...
Hi I want add a pop up button that says "Are you sure" when the user clicks on submit ? if it was a destroy mehod it would be something like this method: :delete, data: { confirm: "Are you sur...
I have a Rails app on Heroku running on just 2 web dynos (Standard type). I'd like to know how best to ensure uninterrupted access to the app for my users while also allowing me to deploy any ti...
Hello Chris, I have the following problem, i can not separate the management of the profile to "devise" below will list how I would manage profiles: Edit User Profile (ex. http://localhos...
I'm building an Events site using RoR which I've just upgraded to v5.0.1 (not moving to 5.1 just yet). My events show page has a comments section at the foot of the page which, so far, only has a c...
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've created a little tool which pulls a price from another table according to what was sold. This works perfectly fine. However I need to include a discount logic into that. There should be 3 way...
My Ruby on Rails enterprise app has a whole range of tables ranging such as customers, products, sales, warehouses, prices etc etc. I'd like to build a whole range of different reports that user...
Hi Chris, I watched all of the videos in the Forum Series -- nice work!. I'm wondering if you're still planning on getting around to showing us how to implement support for Markdown within the ...
So I have a Multitenant SaaS Application where users signup, pay, create an account and start using the service. Now I have received a requirement where this service needs to have a andriod client ...
I am trying to use ng-token-auth (Angular 1) on a separate frontend to allow passwords to be reset and account e-mail addresses to be confirmed on a Ruby on Rails 5.0 backend. Whenever I request...
So in a form I have locations which are set in a `collection_select` statement in the form. Each location has a name (Dairy Queen, McDondalds, etc) and has an address in the Location model. When ...
I'm using rbenv with ruby-build plugin as a default way to install ruby for development and production environments. Is there a way to make installation process faster, but keep it stable? For e...
Setting up my new MacBook Pro and am running into an issue with ruby versions. At this point I have installed and am usin rbenv. I installed ruby 2.3.1 and when I `ruby -v` that is what it shows...
So this is more an architecture question. Lot's of SaaS's have this in place: a monthly cap of sorts of their service. So every [time period] a user can upload X files, connect with Y other use...
My introduction to Ruby on Rails was a "complete course" on Udemy and reading Michael Hartl's book. A year's worth of dedicated practice later, I'm still struggling with my skills and understandin...
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|...
Hi there, do you know a elegant and quick way to create a signup page like cloud9 have? https://c9.io/signup Thanks a lot in advance!
I'm building an app in Rails 4.2.x and I'm using Ransack + Geocoder for my searches. Originally I setup a Remote: True search using Ajax in my index action and I can search no problem with the res...
Hi Chris, I am battling nested forms , but not your standard .. what I want is a situation where the form behaves like a table where each new row will represent the object from the partial(nest...
Hi Chris do you have an example of in app notification like the one you use here. Basically you comment on a question I asked then I see it in the badge in the nav bar. Could you please show us a c...
I have the refile gem connected with aws by following the instruction on their github. For an image i would get something like /attachments/store/78b928c7897e3b12de80cf1ffdfdfdfdf/image.jpg ...
Echochamber is not up to date and also not working , i have found the working python app, should i use python to process the document , help me guys.
I need to create a system for my Events site that monitors the number of bookings being taken to ensure an Event does not become over-subscribed. What is the most effective (DRY) way to do this? ...
Basically, what has been your biggest code aha! moment. That time when you understood some concept or mantra that you were familiar with but couldn't wrap your head around. For me, being the noo...
I've identified a tendency in myself that I feel like, if overcome, would make me a considerably better developer and produce better software. Here I'll try to characterize/analyze it: **Descrip...
You have a screencast where you [describe how to incorporate Mandrill into your Rails application](https://gorails.com/episodes/sending-emails-with-mandrill?autoplay=1), and because of that I've us...
I have a simple blog setup with a posts model. Is there a gem that can publish a feed or should I create thus from scratch?
My Rails 4 app is using Devise and Facebook OmniAuth. The web app is working perfectly. Now I want to make a iOS app to consume my rails app's API. Instead of telling iOS users to type in their...
Hey! I'm recently looking to use `fresh_when` method on my `PostController`. ```ruby class PostsController < ApplicationController def index @posts = Post.published.order(published_a...
Forum Thread Controller class ForumThreadsController < ApplicationController before_action :authenticate_user!, except: [:index, :show] before_action :set_forum_thread, except: [:index, :n...
Hey there I have an STI on devise model which is working but there is an issue with how to manage what menus to show when different types of users are logged in here is my code user.rb ...
Hi! I'm getting ready to release a beta for my rails app and I was wondering if there is an easy way(perhaps a gem?) to build an invite system, so that only users that receive an invite through ema...
I followed your tutorial on elastic search/search kick and implementing jquery autocomplete. It works when I use "Test" as the data, however when I try to use my data from posts table, it doesn't w...
I'm maintaining an app and need to add a pop-up window or modal that launches from the current view but loads a separate controller/view. So far I have a link_to setup to open the controller/view ...
Hi Chris I got a lil logic issue going on here, have a look at this gist https://gist.github.com/bl4ckdu5t/ec48cc9d6eedeb877d06 so technically what i want is for each new weekly_perfo...
i'm currently working on multitenant application that enable user to create a personalize website after selecting a template, please is there any gem or method to achieve this?? Shopify type of App...
I'm trying to use Sweet Alert to replace the standard Rails confirm dialog. I can get it working in a plain new Rails app but not in my production app. I'm using the *sweet-alert-confirm* gem he...
So... I'm having a higher level conceptual gap on how to deal with a scenario in which a form errs out on a page that has two forms relating to two different controllers. My first knowledge g...
I implemented the elasticsearch/searchkick on my app and it works on develoment. But it's not working on production. I did heroku logs and these are the errors: "Completed 500 Internal Server Er...
So i had an interesting chat with fellow community member Jacob, and we are wondering what music do you listen to while you're coding? What really gets you in the zone as you work hard creating ...
Hi I did the Multitenancy app works great only problem that im having is on production the app wont send email. On local machine it send it with no problem. Any help and what info that you need l...
Great work Chris, this my second month in this forum and i really enjoy the series of tuts, please i'm currently working on multi tenancy application that require user to select desired theme. plea...
Hi, What do you think is the best way to handle money in rails? At the moment i use a decimal field with a precision if 16 and a scale of 2. the problem is that we use the comma as a decimal...
## Goal - I take accept a zip file containing some config files as well as 2 folders filled with images - Unzip the folder - run a method to standardize the sub folder and image names as well as...
So I'm working on a old version of a legacy app Chris and I paired on, trying to refactor some functionality and am hitting a wall. I currently have some basic paging functionality which creates...
So I built a website and pushed it to heroku production `example.herokuapp.com` and bought a domain to reroute example.com to show whatever is on `example.herokuapp.com`. This all works great, ex...
I'm building an internal app for my company that contains data from various sources (e.g. web analytics, server logs, etc.). It's hosted on an EC2 instance with a DNS of "reports.example.com". Ri...
I have setup vagrant following the video and all is good but I can't seem to access Mysql. I have tried mysql --user=vagrant -p with no password but I get " Access denied for user 'vagrant'@'loca...
I lost hours to solve it, but I know, I am a newbie =X. My use case is, if the user have role `:agency`, he can see clients. But I have to use the link between the client's agency to verify this...
So I'm having an interesting issue. I'm trying to get this gem delayed_job to send an invitation email to sign up to an email address. The process seems to be working, and it is telling me that the...
I've got a domain object I use to search images by whatever tags it has/the year the item in the image was made. It's worked flawlessly in a couple places: ```ruby class SearchImage def in...
I'm using Refile for uploads and am having a tough time figuring out how to delete individual files. I need to display a delete link under each thumbnail, so my first thought was to do something li...
Hey Chris, As of July 2016 what gem/solution would you use to create multistep forms? I have found a couple of solutions but couldn't decide what to choose. They kinda seemed a bit obsolete. It'...
Hey Everyone, I'm building a relatively simple subscription based app using Stripe, Devise, Pundit and a few other resources. My only real hangup at the moment is that the subscription requires ...
Hello! I'm thinking of a way to handle dynamic pricing on my web app based on the user country, for example: A user wants to subscribe for a pro account on my website and this user is based o...
Hi Chris, I'm having difficulty wrapping my head around how to save a form (`Kit`) that includes optional items for a `has_many through` relationship (`AmazonProductKit`). Here are my models: ...
Hello, I've been thinking about the best approach for implementing a checkout scenario in a custom ecommerce site I've been developing and wanted to see if anyone here had advice to share. We're...
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 pro...
[there was an error on original submission of this post, so I did it again and duplicated it. this one can be deleted!] [Please see this post](https://gorails.com/forum/deployment-question)
I've recently watched couple of screencasts on using Null Object Pattern: https://www.rubytapas.com/2017/01/31/two-screencasts-two-ways-eradicate-ruby-nil-values It was a good reminder about a ques...
I have a hidden field that's activated when clicked on the link using jQuery. When clicking on the link, the field appears just for a second and then disappears. ```javascript $('.use-diff...
Hey Chris. Is it possible to do an episode on recurrence, recurring events? I'm looking at ice cube gem and recurring select but not that easy for me to fully understand everything! it would be gre...
I'm working on my TimeClock functionality for a legacy Rails 3.2.21 app and am running into problems with simple crud type forms. I'm trying to create a new ClockEvent entry using a basic form i...
I watched the tuto on making notifications but i can't set the css to display the notifs properly. Could someone show me an exemple of his css ? Thanks
Let's say you're planning on having real time Notifications and messaging. Does that mean that for each User, there will be 1 actioncable channel (redis) open? Or Does that mean for e...
I have an app with Rails 3.2.20 and Devise 2.1.2 (Yes I know it's old) and there are random occasions where a user will trigger a URL i.e. `site.com/calls` and I will receive an error in the `produ...
Hi Chris Yesterday I was just wondering that how can I build an app which follows REST principles. I searched on many articles and they are in too much nitty-gritty with less examples of how to ...
Hi, Which gem is the best for dynamic image resizing from an S3 URL? I know i can pre define this, but I have hundreds of people using the product with endless uses cases I'd like them to specify ...
Hi Chris, I am using Postgresql and apartment gem and my database has many views and functions. so I am using config.use_schemas = true config.use_sql = true to use pg_dump but when I run...
I'm creating a forum and am trying to display a list of posts that have been **favorited** by the current user in the ```users/show.html.erb``` view. When I favorite a post however, then go to m...
I just finished going over Chris's two great railscasts dealing with search. However, I wanted to put my search bar on my navbar so that whenever someone searches the results I will be taken to my...
Hi there, is a way via regex to validate an email and make sure it belongs to a specific domain, I found the below regex on SO and it doesnt seem to do the job. validates :email, format: { ...
I'd like to ask a question. Lets say we have a web app that uses Rails api on the backend and Ember on the front end. The folder structure I guess would look like this: ``` my-app - backend...
So say i wanna build a website widget where people can install it with a few lines of codes. And in that widget users are able to sign up for my website or see certain information that's on my webs...
Hi Chriss, Would like to ask do you have any plan to make a video about 2 submit button in 1 form for example Save as Draft & Publish button when creating a post?
Hey Guys, do I have to publish the source code of a commercial app if I use a GPL licensed gem like prawn? Cheers, Drilon
I'm working on a practice "Magazine" application, that has **Issues** with nested attributes of **Articles**, which has multiple nested attributes that are **Content Blocks**, which can be one of s...
I am trying to scope a form selection list to from another select box selection. The select box groups the options correctly in the dropdown. Everything checks out in the console but it still does ...
I see your markdown tables aren't being rendered as tables. I have the same problem :( Any idea how we get this fixed? | Tables | Are | Cool | | ------------- |:-------------:...
Is part **3319000** of url 3.basecamp.com/3319000/projects just a show action in the controller or is there implemented by gems? Will be great to see some examples. Sorry for my english.
Hello there I am in a little fix and cant figure out whats going in, i am attempting to have a devise model User share via STI with 2 other sub-classes . I am able to populate both classes with dat...
I have an application on Heroku that uses the Paperclip gem that recently had some issues - and I'm not 100% sure on what it was that caused it. I have the application working locally (including th...
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:...
am trying to retrieve date with @category = Category.find_by(slug: params[:slug]).limit(5) but i get undefine method .limit
I have a website where I would like to offer users the ability to edit the public facing data. However, after the data is edited I need to place the model in que for review. If edits are acceptable...
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? *Than...
I want to store the user activity by using after_action in the all the controller for a specific action of those controller
Hi Chris, after couple of test run i figure out twitter is hard to work with other oauth2 providers, because twitter api doesn't allow to access other user email.. can you guide me about how to do ...
Hi Guys I am looking for a way to implement a collapsible feature within nested forms, such that during edit the existing forms dont open up in full and user decides which forms he / she wants to ...
Hi! So my app uses CanCanCan and Devise for working with users. Now the app needs to have a feature where users can create role. How can I approach this new task. Example: Admin(User) can crea...
So Im working with apartment and sidekiq and the job is not switch tenant. ``` gem 'apartment', '~> 1.0', '>= 1.0.2' gem 'sidekiq', '~> 4.0', '>= 4.1' gem 'apartment-sidekiq', '~> 0.2.0' c...
I'm trying to deploy my Rails app on my Digital Oceans VPS but I'm running into a error: Running `cap production deploy` ends up with this error: INFO[7cd03924] Running ~/.rbenv/bin/rbenv ex...
Hi Chris Im using HighChart and I have some data that want to display in group by month.
I was thinking maybe this could be a tutorial/guide request? I always use the GoRails guides to setup my ubuntu, nginx, passenger servers(thanks!) I am having trouble figuring out how to use ...
My favorite combination of Rails/HTTP is Nginx + Passenger. They work wonderfully together and it's been super easy to setup across all of my apps. One thing I've noticed in some of my apps that ...
When creating a facebook login, you put `user = User.from_omniauth(env["omniauth.auth"])` inside `sessions_controller.rb` , so when a user goes to /auth/facebook it will prompt them to login via fa...
Duration of a video in the listing page would be highly useful to select a video to watch.
Has anyone had any success indexing their multitenant data with searchkick? I followed the suggested article in the readme (https://www.tiagoamaro.com.br/2014/12/11/multi-tenancy-with-searchkick/) ...
Hello, I'm doing an application where I have to show a link. The administrative must be able to assign the date where it is displayed and hidden. Sorry for my English. I think it's done with the g...
I am getting an error: `uninitialized constant HTML::Pipeline::SyntaxHighlightFilter::Pygments`. my Gemfile shows: ``` ruby # markdown in comments gem 'html-pipeline', '~> 1.11.0' gem 'gi...
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...
I have a simple question about class naming: is it Ok to use `Error` as a model name in a Rails project? This model will be used to persist Ruby exception objects for errors monitoring. Using `E...
I'm working on an app that will track medication. I have a controller called `narcotic_usage.rb` which will be a simple form to note what narcotics are being used, their expiration dates, etc. ...
Seems like the site is currently undergoing some changes, but just wondering if we are getting back the search field for the videos anytime soon.
Hello, I need some help/advise on how to save third data in my database, also I'm interested in any tutorial or info about these topic. I'm struggling to save data from third party api. I get...
I decided to experiment with a form object. ```ruby class Invitation include ActiveModel::Model attr_accessor( :first_name, :last_name, :email, :firm_id, :role ...
I'm getting this error when trying to deploy my project with hatch. I made sure I have the RSA file. Deployment Error ``` Fetching origin Warning: Identity file /home/deploy/.ssh/thinkrtc_rs...
Hi Chris Im trying to apply the Multitenancy to a exiting app. at the moment the tenant get create. how can I use the exiting that to be one of the tenant. When I enter with a exiting user to the t...
Processing by Users::HomesController#welcome as HTML Processing by Users::HomesController#welcome as HTML Rendering users/homes/welcome.html.erb within layouts/application Rendering users/ho...
Hi I'm having a hard time figuring this out. https://gist.github.com/Frank004/8aa4acf20f60a3666a42 Im starting to do test on my Multitenant app and encounter a problem when trying to run the...
idk if this is the best place to include screencast requests... Would love to see advance tutorials on using react with rails. A specific one would be caching best practices in react.
Hello. How is possible to embed an existing video an show it in a page with rails? I followed this guide with yt gem: https://www.sitepoint.com/youtube-api-version-3-rails/ So now I can pos...
So i am starting a new project, and have done this meany times now. However this is the first time i have hit this issue! I created the app as normal **`rails new myapp -d postgresql`** I've ...
Hi Thank you, i followed this tutorial however i am getting Routing Error when i click submit for the comment... ``` uninitialized constant Squeals ``` Rails.root: /home/ubuntu/workspace ...
I currently have a part of my website where people can submit user generated articles. I use simple_format to retain the layout. e.g. `<%= simple_format(@post.content %>` As more and more ...
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 disc...
Any regexp experts here? I have the following situation: - get an invoice - scan it for prices and save the highest number - success 🍾 I do this with a `.scan(/…/)`. Pretty fast in Ruby. ✨ ...
Hi Everyone Using the UJS approach Chis showed in the NavBar notifications screencasts, I'm trying to implement something similar, and having very strange issue that I can't even imagine what's ...
ANYONE WITH EXPERIENCE INCORPORATING WATSON INTO A RAILS APP? any resources or tutorials you found helpful? (Sorry caps are acting up)
And for other JS libraries as well. [Screencast](https://gorails.com/episodes/rails-assets)
Hello, I need a week model which contains all weekdays and every weekday has multiple opening and closing times. For example, a barber shop is open on every monday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 ...
Hi everybody temporary i'm working on some rails project where i have one super admin which can create company, employee, resources also he can to add employee in the some company employee can to h...
Hello I'm new to rails and I am trying to work with the has_one association. I'm using Devise for authentication. I was each user to have a profile (which will include their address and some other ...
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 working on a SaaS platform that will be heavily API driven with a React or Vue front end. But there's a requirement for a desktop app to give the customer something "tangible" to hold in their...
I've tried to follow along with Chris' tutorial on importing records from a CSV file. I cant get the file to upload. I've posted loads of quesitons on the discussion board for the first vide...
I'm looking to create a webapp that lets users upload and save files similar to github (except no terminal usage. Users upload through the website) and have version control so they can retrieve pre...
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 "maxd...
I'm helping on a small RoR app. I need to set up error monitoring for it. `errbit` or `exception_notification` both look pretty good. This is a small app right now (< 200 users with logins, prob...
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...
I have followed the instructions on this page https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Allow-users-to-sign-in-with-something-other-than-their-email-address to allow signing in with some...
Hi all, Hope that someone here can help. I just got an old mac back and bumped it up to OSX 10.10.3 (was on snow leopard). Did a whole reinstall for homebrew, rbenv (was rvm), ruby (2.2.2), rai...
I'm making a deck building site similar to hearthpwn.com. It would be nice if users could filter decks based off the cards they have in their inventory. In other words, I'm trying to make a quer...
Hi all, I've got the following question on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34259808/custom-ransacker-on-dynamically-generated-association Wondering if anyone here might have...
Hi, I'm following the Deploy Rails guide I'm now a the part where Postgres gets installed. I successfully installed Postgres, but when I try to create a new Postgres user with: createu...
Just out of curiosity, how do you decide which episode is a "pro" episode vs regular?
I'm looking to add watermarks to all images that are uploaded to my application. They can be of several sizes and this is where I'm running into trouble. This is my watermark processor: m...
Question, how do I go about handling the update process for my Rails apps? Example: I setup many apps with Rails 4.0.0 and currently 4.2.0 is out. What's the update process look like? I tried t...
Hi Chris, Please could you add an intro to rolify to your to do list. I'm getting very confused with the documentation. I want to have users in organisations who can have a role which ext...
Just testing out slack forum notifications.
Hi Chris so im trying to work with subdomain and maindomain email reset password I use the code on devise and for subdomain work like a charm but for the main domain I get this erro because they d...
I'm trying to create a way to filter my User results based on these filters. I'm looking for a guide with example on how to do this. http://image.prntscr.com/image/07e7113ac239436fa129fa874b5ac...
First off I am sure I am not asking this question correctly as this is an advanced Rails topic over my head right now. Here is what I have for routes: concern :assetable do resources :...
So I'm dealing with an interesting but probably simple issue. Working on some Rails 2 stuff that was written by someone who has long been out of reach so I've been dusting it off on my own. Som...
The site - leanhire.co that I'm working on seems to render perfectly on Chrome but it seems to be a mess when I view the site via Firefox. What do you think is missing and what is the best way t...
hello , hopefully this isn’t too ambitious but i am hoping there is a way to do simple summation using defined scopes example is i have these scopes : scope :present, -> { where(presen...
I have no trouble setting up redis but for some reason I can't get sidekiq to work. I can get sidekiq and redis to work locally on a mac using brew but not on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu 16.04 server. ...
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... ...
Hi, I'd like some feedback if possible about the workflow of TDD/BDD on a Rails app. I was doing a research the whole weekend trying to find some good examples on how to do porperly TDD on my Rails...
Hey Chris. I have been trying to look online but haven't been successful in finding out the following. Say you made a CRM application in Rails and setup a pop3/imap email in the app. How would...
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...
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 u...
Hi everyone, I'm trying to mark messages as "seen" when the div has entered the user's view (for example, the Facebook behavior of seen posts). My current attempt is a mix of the Unread gem (htt...
All examples i can find are subscribing to one single room by pasing a room as a param when creating the channel but what if i have Room A, B and C an i (as a user) am in all of them. This is an...
A user belogns to a ProjectThread. And a ProjectThread has_many Users through ProjectPosts. On the Project Thread Index I want to display only threads where a given users has posted a Project P...
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...
Following Chris great post on scheduling I am using `delayed_job_active_record` to schedule quote from my app to be tweeted and shared on FB. Here is my `quote.rb` model with the current logic: ...
If you back up your Heroku PG database, this is storing all your users login info, right? So can I delete my whole rails app, push up a brand new rails app (using devise and rails5) and than pu...
Hey GoRails devs, I am in the middle of setting up a marketplace (with stripe) and could use some help in conceptually thinking about the model associations. In the marketplace: a user can sell ...
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 ...
``` [Menj]~/RubymineProjects/myapp2$ rails s /Users/Menj/.rbenv/versions/2.4.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/activesupport-5.0.1/lib/active_support/xml_mini.rb:51: warning: constant ::Fixnum is deprec...
Hi im trying to have 3 type of devise users but one to have a single login. I need to find a way to make the routes to go to a site/login for all 3 of then. Im not using the 1 User model with 3 ty...
I am an iOS developer developing my first rails app. I would like to have suggestion on what i am trying to build. I want to create a web portal for different type of service providers. Any body c...
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?
In my blog application I want to have a **"Previous post"** link and a **"Next post"** link in the bottom of my show view. But I'm having a hard time getting it to work. What am I missing? **Th...
Hey guys, just went through the Notifications videos. To see if I understood the concepts correctly, I tried doing my own solo Ajax request on the forum_threads instead of Notifications. I ran ...
Hi, I'm looking to use `expires_in` method in my actions who returns static content. For this pages I would like to return a cache control header where `public` is `true`. Like this it allow a...
Hi there, I'm trying to upload multiple file inputs from single form. The form is working fine in development, but in production the form showing that redirecting for long time and returns nothi...
Hi, My currently deployed Rails app seems to have issues with uploading images to Amazon S3 storage through CarrierWave. I get the familiar "We're sorry, but something went wrong." message. ...
Help! When i deploy my app from local machine to vps, my local image, text and another information have been deleted! How can i fix it?
Hi I'd like to create a music catalog online of my music, where people can have a preview of few secs, and then can download them to be available offline but always by the same web page, somethin...
undefined local variable or method `user_signed_in' in application controller but working fine in application.html.erb if user_signed_in layout 'admin_lte_2' else layout 'some_other_lay...
Hello I am working on a project that is to develop a platform. The platform will aim to monitor and records the payment transaction operations on the mobile network. I remind you that the mobile pa...
I want to use actioncable to pull notifications AND also use it for user to user chatting. Is this possible and pain free to do? I guess what i'm asking is, can i join these two videos togethe...
Hello! I am pretty new to Rails and recently signed up to try to get some more exposure. I have been playing around with Elastic Search, but am having a hard time implementing some of the more ...
Hi how can we add image from my assets to the email like my logo when sending email to the users.
Hi Chris, I'm wondering, on your episode https://gorails.com/episodes/message-templates, would it be possible to have one of the saved messages as HTML? I've tried entering ```<h1>test</h1><...
Reading through the Turbolinks 5 documentation, there are mentions of several use cases, like eg. in the Making Transformations Idempotent sections (but there are more). It would be great if you co...
Forum Threads Controller class ForumThreadsController < ApplicationController before_action :authenticate_user!, except: [:index, :show] before_action :set_forum_thread, except: [:index, :new,...
I'm using better_errors gem to track errors better. Any idea how to make it ignore 404 or ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound exceptions? I want to test to make sure my 404 page is working correctly and I...
<%= select_tag "event[#{inquiry.slug}]", options_for_select([ "PENDING", "CONFIRMED" ], inquiry.status), :data => {url: update_status_vendor_inquiry_path(inquiry),method: "put", type: "script", rem...
I have watched the mandrill tutorial. I just have a quick question. How can i link the list on mandrill or any email service with the users emails (when the user signs up ) and update the list wh...
You can keep a users session logged in by putting their cookies into the browser . But what about if youre using token based authentication instead and the users browser doesn't allow cookies ? ...
Hi there, In the logs of Rollbar for my app [petithacks.com](http://petithacks.com), I have seen in the past 2 days attempts like the ones in the image 
It's been a few months I follow you Chris and I'd like to say **thank you** for all what you've done. I often watch your episodes and a question got out of my mind, so I have to ask. What do ...
I'm watching https://gorails.com/series/realtime-group-chat-with-actioncable and i noticed that in channels/application_cable/connection.rb , chris put this code to find verified users. ``` ...
When i try navigating to http://localhost:3000/admin i get "This webpage has a redirect loop" and also my logs I have Started GET "/admin" for 127.0.0.1 at 2015-11-25 17:58:35 +0300 Processin...
Would love to see a screencast on how to add functionality to share on Twitter / Facebook and receive callbacks. E.g. "Share on Twitter to get extra free month!"
``` my html <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <%= csrf_meta_tags %> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta charset="utf-8"> <me...
Hi there I have an app which I need to add active admin dash but already has a model with the same name dashboard.. Will that cause problems in routes?
Hi anyone encountered same issue/error? ``` deploy:assets:precompile 01 /home/deploy/.rbenv//bin/rbenv exec bundle exec rake assets:precompile 01 rake aborted! 01 Psych::Sy...
I am building a rails application that associates posts with many different categories. For example, I have a Post and need to be able to assign it to the categories Sports, News and Science throug...
HI, I try to add the value of a text field in a form from a other database field. I use the following javascript ```javascript $("#assignment_conditions").empty(); $("#assignment_condition...
Hi guys, I've build quite a few production apps now with rails and I'm embarking on my latest project which is a niche blog site. I guess going with rails is a bit of an overkill with this one s...
I'm working on a simple CRUD Asset Management app and I want to use Ransack. I think I have this setup properly in my view and controller but each time the index view is hit I get the exception: ...
SImple app has a two models and does the function to add nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript. But this stuff does not working with the Turbolinks 5. How to refactoring this code by J...
I'm just starting to use Webpack with Rails, and have a question. Let say there is a constant defined in Rails application. What could be a proper way to access this constant from JavaScript? Assum...
I recently worked through the 4 episodes here on direct uploads to S3 with shrine. I have things setup to upload both images and documents and am now trying to write a conditional to create eith...
Hi, I just successfully deployed my Rails app to a Digital Ocean VPS, following the Deploy Rails guide on this website. Many thanks go to Chris Oliver and James Dullaghan for their help and pa...
A few days ago read the [four rules for developers](https://robots.thoughtbot.com/sandi-metz-rules-for-developers) and the Facade Pattern got my attention, however, find it somehow complicated to i...
Hello, Before i begin with my question, i would like to introduce myself. So i was introduced to ruby on rails via a friend around a couple of months back, when i decided to enroll myself with o...
I'm just starting to learn Rails so please forgive the dumb question. In my web app, I was able to set up devise successfully and then link it Facebook using Omni-auth gem. However, two things occu...
This is annoying. The select menus are overlapping in Chrome.  Has ...
I'm making a web app and I want to sort through a model based on popularity/trendiness, kind of like reddit/hacker news. I want to determine the popularity based on the count of comments, likes, a...
Before I implemented searchkick/elasticsearch on my rails app, the default_scope -> { order(created_at: :desc) } works. But after implementing searchkick/elasticsearch, it doesn't work anymore.
Hi Go Rails Community! Would any of you ever looked or seen a project/ tutorial on IFTT and rails app connection? I would be interested in directions in terms of going deeper? I know i have to rea...
Hi, I have a strange problem When i do the following method with no config.time_zone set in the application.rb it works. ```ruby def send_assignment @assignment = Assignment.find(param...
Hi there guys im building a school system and im stuck on the assistance module. I havent come to a way to make it work, for example: A school period start at september 2016 and finish july 2...
I would love a tutorial on creating an affiliate program... Anyone have any gems they can recommend?
Hello! I'm new here. I'm currently working on an app and I'm trying to wrap my mind around how I want to handle authentication using Devise. I've read the past threads that were similar to my situa...
I'd love to see a video describing the differences between Unicorn and Puma, and how to tweak the settings with them (process count, thread count, etc) to get the highest performance possible.
hi i am working on this interpolation where the runners has interests but lets say the runner has not interests , or has not entered any interests how would we interpolate this Your ...
Hey Chris! I was wondering about the differences of the implementations of complex 3rd party integrations. For instance on the one hand there is segment.io or intercom.io. For these to work you ...
I wrote some jquery to accomplish this here is the code. $(window).load(function(e){ $("#comment_body").on('click',function(){ $(this).removeAttr('placeholder'); }); var...
I'll try to keep this as brief as possible. I have a Rails app which is a static codebase and runs on 9 different servers all the same db schema but of course with different values. I wrote ...
Hi All, I've recently gotten back into my rails development after some Salesforce related projects at my work. In that time I had to format my laptop from Ubuntu to Windows 10. I've been stru...
I built my chat app using rails actioncable and than was able to make an ios app that pulls the conversation and messages. Everything works fine. My question is, is it possible to set up apple...
Hi Chris, Any plan in near future (couple months) for uploading series about real RoR development ? I mean like building a commerce site, it would be more complex with real world hurdle ? (AirB...
In Rails 5 versions is it recommended to use the gem Best_in_place? What other alternative is there?
Came across a tutorial for using Devise authority tokens in a rails API, however are there any other reasons to use AngularJS and Rails? Advantages or disadvantages? The AngularJS with Rails t...
Hey there, I'm using nested attributes to generate a bunch of records at once. I'm coding a tool that crawls IP and Website Informations. The nested attributes are set up like this: -Compa...
Hi, I'm working on an app for a personal trainer, at the moment I've got a User class with STI for clients and trainers. The way I would like the appointments to work is from the trainers side they...
Hello friends, I have a handful of doubts in an interesting senario, I hope can give me a little help. My application uses angular with [ng-token-auth](https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/ng-toke...
Hi evry bady. I have three models. I want a form that gives the product list, just added the amount for inclusion in ventelinges. ```produit.rb class Produit < ActiveRecord::Base has_many...
I've made a bit of a mess with my timeclock functionality. Basically what I want to do is pass all of the records in a given search range (which I've already written a model method for and it's wo...
Being trying to deploy my rails app using EBS. I kepp getting the following error. I've tried updating and installing rugged. But the problem seems to be cmake on EBS. CMake is an extensible the...
HI Chris, I implemented elastic search using search kick gem and all went well from search, autocomplete and suggestions when dealing with text. Now i wanna perform a similar search on tabl...
Hi I've come across a really weird bug, not just in my project but on quite a few rails sites. `https://gorails.com/users/sign_in?redirect_to=%2F` - **works fine** `https://gorails.com/users/SI...
after I switch the controller, and switch back, the form submit button Failure, if I refresh the page , it can works again. the console and network no error log.
I have some simple CoffeeScript that toggles a div based off of if a checkbox is checked in a Rails form. The CoffeeScript looks like this: ``` $("#bill_patient_checkbox").change -> $("...
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this issue, but I'm looking for a way in my Rails app to reorder items by drag and dropping. I tried to implement the solution by Ryan Bate...
I want to implement a trending function for last 24 hours hottest topic discuss or mentioned most in my website,i want to know is there anyway to implement this function in ruby on rails application?
Chris, What turbolinks compatible solution (gem or anything) would you recommend for implementing loading progress bar for page load? Thanks, Szilard
I have a multi-tenant app where each tenant can set their primary and accent colors. Is there a way i can grab those values and insert them into a sass file on page load? I"m using rails 5 and post...
It would have been great to receive a tutorial on Tokenize inputs. Thanks.
I have an array of states and abbreviations that I check when a user is performing a search. If the items is not in the array it moves on to using a geocoded service. I do the initial check current...
So Chris im using prawn pdf in my app. Now im adding some search form to filter by date range. All works fine and I get my filter table on my index. my problem is with prawn that wont hold the fi...
Hi, I wanna make sure that child objects also gets deleted when deleting parent. I'd like to use both `dependent: :destroy` (rails side) and `on_delete: :cascaade` (db side). Is this a good ...
There are a lot of cool stuff that made with love. It'll be very usefull to learning advanced stuff from source code of GoRails
Hi guys and gals Wasn't sure which category to put this in but here goes anyway... I have a Rails 5 app in production hosted on Heroku. I recently noticed a particularly high load on the serv...
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, wh...
Hi Team, I was trying to explore possibility of using EAV (Entity-Attribute-Value) pattern in our application. We are a ecommerce solution and would need Product variants to be captured, I did s...
I worked through https://gorails.com/episodes/improving-in-app-notifications yesterday and it works great. I tried to use this same system create activity feeds for my different models, but ran ...
Ran into this error in part 4 of the ActionCable group chat. What exactly am I missing? Schema looks fine same with MessagesController. ``` ActionController::UnknownFormat in MessagesControll...
hi Chris Oliver on the @mentions episode can you share the css you use to show both user name and profile picture? Thanks
Have a Rails app which acts as a API client. Request may come from 6 different domains. Each site will have same layout. Difference between each site would be the theme color , logo and the tex...
Hello Chris - can you please teach us how to build a web scraper using Ruby to collect data from the web?
Hey all! I'm just curious, how would you surface the ability to create nested items in an API? Say you have a model `Post` that `has_many observations`. I have my base routes for both Post an...
Ok, so I'll try to make this brief. I have a new Rails 4.2.1 app using Ruby 2.2.2 and I'm trying to do a live search on a basic crud model. I have ransack installed and it's working great. But...
I've developing an app where posts are nested under locations and are also scoped by location. Through Search, I am able to locate these posts under the location/:id/posts, but not under the locati...
I'm working on a project management app that has a dashboard which links to tasks that are overdue, due today, this week, next week etc. I can display the task titles fine but can't get the lin...
I am looking for a rich text format editor that is compatible with rails 4, any good ones out there, I want to make beautiful text-areas with rich text. cheers
Hello Folllowing on from the prev 2 posts , How do i add the default time of 645pm in the form. So when someone craates the form a default time of 645 is already setup. I am using simple form a...
A portion of the application I'm working on has a comments page with a form at top to add new comments and a list of comments beneath it. I've been working on using CoffeeScript classes to represe...
I have an app that has a resource called 'pins'. I want to add upvoting, and possibly downvoting, to the pins, so that I can rank them on the site Sort of like Reddit karma. I was thinking that an ...
I am using devise for my users, during sign up i have an extra field i want to store in a different table in my Postgres DB. How would i go about storing this extra field? So a **company** `has_...
Hey, debugging a deployment script I didn't set up and running into an error that I'm not making any headway with via StackOverflow or general Googling. Here's what it is: ``` bundle exec ca...
Regarding around time area 3min for *Direct File Uploads to S3: Part 2*, I was wondering if I could just use ```.ENV``` since I'm using this as an example for my Github and Heroku. Instead of putt...
So I have a Post model and a Category model and a User model. So a user can have many posts and a post can have many categories. So returning a group of posts is very easy, however a post can h...
I have implemented the chatroom but I want the chatroom area to be fixed and for the user to be able to scroll back through the messages. How can I add scrolling? I have tried added it to the pane...
Hi, I installed the working_hours gem to calculate SLA hours on my ticketsystem. It all works on dev so i was ready to deploy it to the production machine with capistrano now i get the follow...
Hi there, My users can create a report record which is basically a scaffolded model "**Report**" with controller and views. The users can use this model to create records that a CSV method is us...
``` <div id="likes"> <%= render partial: "likes" %> </div> ``` we render something here, but where is this partial? usually when I render something with Rails it's a form or other code th...
Hi, i have the following models: users, markets, assignments, products, sales, a user gets an assignment, and then he should enter his sales for the assignment. i have a sales form with t...
Hey Chris, Just wanted to let you know, that I couldn't subscribe from my profile. I'm used to be subscribed to onemonth, so I got the free half a year subscription to gorails. That has expired ...
If you could build anything (think outside of the box), what would it be? Things I'm working on that are fun to build: * Whisper clone with material design UI for mobile and web * Anonymous ...
Hi, I would like to ask if you can help me with this error while installing RoR on my mac machine running on a macOS 10.12 version. Based on this guide https://gorails.com/setup/osx/10.12-sierra ...
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...
Consider the situation where a model is created to which the data needs to manipulated/worked with right after creation. For instance find (`*match`) a certain string from a long string, convert (p...
Was browsing and found out about ActiveAdmin and thought it would be pretty cool to work with. http://activeadmin.info Best, -Rob
¿How make I to upload multiple images with refile?
I'm currently building an app and using namespaced service objects containing a single call method in each class. Below is an actual method (I'm aware the ABC size is too large, I'm wanting to g...
I'm trying to build a form which contains categories and subcategories. The desired effect is to display the subcategories field or the relevant subcategories depending on the category that has bee...
I've implemented elasticsearch/searchkick on my rails app and it works both in development and production on desktop browsers. But I noticed that the autocomplete does not work on safari on my phon...
I followed line by line in [this tutorial](https://gorails.com/deploy/ubuntu/14.04)to setup my own production server. After Nginx is installed and up and running, I followed the instruction to m...
I'm trying to have my 'conversations' partial which is a list of all active conversations show up on the navbar, but of course I'm getting a no method error. I figured you can copy the conver...
Hi All, I'm working with nested forms and I'm stuck trying to create the two models and the controller to handle this association. My models following this structure: Survey -> recipients ...
I am working on a Rails app and need some help with coffeescript which I'm honestly not very good at. I have a form with a field called location_id using a collection in Rails. ```` <%= f.gr...
I created a question on StackOverflow - but it hasn't gotten any attention as of yet, so I thought I'd share it here. If you have any suggestions at all, feel free to share! http://stackoverf...
Hi there, just a quick suggestion. I'm at a stage where I'm struggling with Caching. Since you haven't covered this topic yet I would be very happy if you do, especially Database query caching. ...
If you search for the word "type", it's causing a 500 error. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks for the site! Jerry
I'm building a portfolio app where a user can share all of the locations that they like to work from. A location can be a home, office, coffee shop, park or some random place in the wilderness. Giv...
Hi, I have a question about which gem is better, devise_token_auth or devise_token_authenticatable?. I see that devise_token_auth was update recently while the other not.
Hi all, I am looking up a list of articles, depending on the brand ID's - [email protected] = Article.where(brand_id: brand_ids)` what i would like to know is there a way to retrieve the brand name in th...
So i built my web app that allows users to chat with eachother, see who's online, and send notifications all using actioncable and it's using up A LOT of memory it seems. Correct me if i'm wrong, b...
I am messing around with the forum repo and I have been trying to nest the forum_threads inside of a school model. I want every school to have their own forum. What would be the best way to accompl...
So this site i am building goes something like this. I need to let **users** log in and manage their **brands**, each **brand** belongs to a **company**. A **company** can have many **users** wh...
I know there is a huge range on how much rails app would cost, Just ballparking, how much would it cost to develop a web app with subscription services for access to video content and email with d...
Anyone have any experience with handling iOS in-app purchase receipts? I know there's a Gem called Venice, but couldn't find much documentation or tutorials online. Appreciate any advice!
Hi Chris I want to replace the create action of my app with dynamic jQuery data pulling so that user has a chance to see the data pulled from the DB before the actual create happens , so currently...
I am literally following the Setup and Deploy tutorials line for line. I have my local dummy rails app up and running and I am trying to run my first deploy to DigitalOcean. Here is the error I a...
Hi All Say you've found a sample Admin Dashboard web site. Its delivered as a 'skeleton' html.css app. In order to use it one needs to 'port' (for lack of a better term) - all the necessary re...
Related to my previous thread (https://gorails.com/forum/structure-guidance-multi-tenancy-authentication-authorization) I plan to have authorization with Devise and some sort of role based system (...
I'm working on an application related to a fic sport. A large deal of the value of the application revolves around being able to track different stats by player by position by season. There...
Pretty much the question above! I have a Rails 5.1 app with webpacker installed, and I used npm to install a front end framework: `npm install bulma --save` Now that it is inside of `node_...
I would like to offer people x views of certain pages then prompt them to pay for access. I was looking ot use this gem acts_as_paywall - https://github.com/BarefootCoders/acts_as_paywall but wan...
Hey Chris could you do a video on live streaming video with ActionCable or integrating it with an gem? Thanks!
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).reco...
Here's a quirk that's confounding me: Data Model: ```ruby class Athlete < ApplicationRecord has_many :stats end class Stat < ApplicationRecord belongs_to :athlete belongs_to :...
Does anyone have experience with implementing OpenID Connect into a Rails app? Specifically the relying party (RP) rather the openid connect provider (OP). I have investigated a couple differen...
I followed the Chris' excellent tutorial on [Recurring events with the ice_cube gem](https://gorails.com/episodes/recurring-events?autoplay=1). However, I was running into an issue when the value ...
I am building a rails application that associates serial #'s with software titles. For instance, I have a software title, and need to be able to upload batches of serial #'s(codes) and associate it...
Hi guys, I went through Chris's Go Rails course on Group Chat with Action Cable and learned loads from it. One of the things that I need some help with though is being able to find all the chatr...
Info: My models and association. I got a ServiceUser ( Manager ) model,User model, ServiceCompany model, Employee model and a Project model. A ServiceCompany can have many projects, employees and m...
So pretty much a `anime` belongs_to :season and a `season` has_many :animes. I'm scraping a site and i'm collecting the season like "Spring 2015". I want to be able to assign "Spring 2015" to a an...
Hey Chris, I was playing around with Hatch last night and it's really cool, awesome work! I am having a little drouble deploying though. I'm getting this > Git clone failed > > This u...
Hi there, Here is the problem in more detail. I tried to perform bulk update on rails model, but ended up with normal save method. I have some number of records and i wanted to update their valu...
All i am trying to create follow and follwers relationship and i am experiencing some issues. Chris i think you should create a course on this as well. i am getting issue undefined method `id' for ...
Hi guys! I have been asking this question everywhere... basically I am building a user dashboard and it load the main div with ajax calls. I wanted to know how can I update the URL when an ajax...
Hi, I want to create a web app which is a simple HR SaaS. Each user/company which registers will have get a separate table to upload list of employees. In terms of autorization a user/company ca...
Evening all, So i have a question about naming controllers. Which would be best to use? MyOrder or MyOrders Is it just the DB which get pluralised?
Hey Chris, Just wondering what are you using to preview Markdown in forum posts? I watched the whole Forum series and I saw the other video about html-pipeline gem but you don't mention syntax h...
I am working on a project and I need an api from which to import all the national holidays for a certain country and even for specific regions in that country. So for example I could import all...
Hey Fellow GoRailers, I have a feature that I'm implementing and some guidance would be well appreciated. It's linked posts: every time a posts gets updated, a link is placed on the original rep...
**How can I subscribe a user when creating a new project?** I'm having a hard time on the `create` method. Currently this is my code: ### Projects controller ```ruby def create ...
I originally asked this question about building a reporting feature in my app https://gorails.com/forum/advice-on-building-a-reports-feature. I'd like to simplify this question even further. I w...
I would like to change the currency in my app for each site. So i currently have **`number_to_currency(aNumber, :locale => :gb)`** which works well. I have a number of sites which use different ...
I have a form that uses java script and the data-attribute to do some calculations (Calx2). to make the data-attributes unique i use the the index method that is available. ```ruby <tbody id=...
I'm working on a practice "Magazine" application, that has **Issues** with nested attributes of **Articles**, which has multiple nested attributes that are **Content Blocks**, which can be one of s...
I've been using Capistrano to deploy my rails app and I've come across an issue trying to update 2 gems. Below at the bottom is the message I get for nokogiri. The other gem I'm trying to update on...
I just did a `bundle update` and my app updated to Rails 5.0.1, it looks like this may have come out of RC. However there is nothing on their site yet. However their github is stating the buuld is ...
I have been trying for 4 years and 3 months to try to setup a basic rails app. I have bought 10+ books, subscribed to this and several ohter subscription services to try to learn the basics of r...
