Tag: Ruby on Rails
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Rails Routing Advanced Constraints for User Authentication Without Devise
Many times we mount engines and restrict access to admin users via Devise. In this post, I’ll show you how to do the same when using a different authentication mechanism. Let’s take for example the Sidekiq engine. According to their wiki, all we need to do is surround the mount using the authenticate method. But […]
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Ruby On Rails: Storing JSON Directly in PostgreSQL
Whenever we save data from one of our Rails models, each attribute is mapped one to one to a field in the database. These fields are generally of a simple type, like a string or an integer. However, it’s also possible to save an entire data object in JSON format in a field. Let’s see […]
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ActiveRecord Except
August 19th was Whyday, and to commemorate it, I decided to write a gem called activerecord-except. WHAT IS IT? activerecord-except is a Ruby gem that extends the functionality of ActiveRecord, allowing you to select all the fields from a table, except the ones that you specify. For example, if you have a table users. And you want […]