I was recently built a simple Wiki app for work that required markdown parsing. To get this going I needed to use html-pipeline to parse the content of the articles and display markdown. First thing, this post assumes you have an Article model or some Po... (more…)

During this year I noticed 2 similar concurrency problems with my Ruby on Rails application and I solved them with distributed locks. I’m going to show you h... (more…)

It’s widely known that Ruby on Rails has become an extremely popular web framework for many online businesses. Twitter, GitHub, GoodReads, Groupon, Hulu and so many more services are using Ruby on Rails nowadays.

When I am building a Rails app that I expect to be public facing in some sort of capacity, I don’t want to be displaying auto-incrementing…...

How do you look for changed attributes using Ruby on Rails? It's straightforward, in fact. Let's look at two ways you can get started. (more…)