Learn Ruby on Rails
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How to Create Your Own Local Premium URL Shortener Service
Tutorial • IntermediateLearn how to set up your own private URL Shortener with the Premium URL Shortener. You will also create a neat PopClip extension to make it even easier.
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Uploading With Rails and Carrierwave
Tutorial • BeginnerYou will learn how to work with Carrierwave, a very popular and feature-rich file uploading solution for Rails, while crafting a demo application.
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How to Use OmniAuth-Twitter in a Rails Application
Tutorial • BeginnerIn this tutorial, you will learn how to allow users of your application to log in using their Twitter account. Doing this has been made easy with tools such...
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Authentication in Rails Using Clearance
Tutorial • BeginnerClearance is a simple authentication system with email and password built by the team at Thoughtbot. It has opinionated defaults but is intended to be easy...
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Building Your First Web Scraper, Part 3
Tutorial • BeginnerIn this tutorial, we will cover in detail how we extracted the data, how the helper and utility methods accomplish their jobs, and how all the puzzle pieces...
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Uploading Files With Rails and Shrine
Tutorial • IntermediateYou will learn how to present a file uploading feature in your Rails application with the Shrine gem. This gem is built with a modular approach, providing...
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Building Your First Web Scraper, Part 2
Tutorial • BeginnerIn this tutorial, you will learn how you can use Mechanize to click links, fill out forms, and upload files. You'll also learn how you can slice Mechanize...
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Building Your First Web Scraper, Part 1
Tutorial • BeginnerRubyland has two gems that have occupied the web scraping spotlight for the past few years: Nokogiri and Mechanize. We spend an article on each of these...
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Processing Forms With phpPress, goPress, rubyPress, and nodePress
Tutorial • IntermediateNow that you have a website running with phpPress, goPress, rubyPress, and/or nodePress, you might want to process some forms. In this tutorial, I'll show...
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Exploring Devise, Part 2
Tutorial • BeginnerIn the first part of the tutorial, we learned how to install Devise and set it up in our Rails application. In this part, we will look at how to integrate...
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Getting Started With the Asset Pipeline, Part 2
Tutorial • BeginnerBy the end of this article you should have a good understanding of the features of the Asset Pipeline in Rails that beginners usually have a tricky time...
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Getting Started With the Asset Pipeline, Part 1
Tutorial • BeginnerIn this first article of a new series on the Asset Pipeline in Rails, I’d like to discuss a few high-level concepts that are handy to fully grasp what the...
