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How to Create Your Own Local Premium URL Shortener Service

Ruby on Rails

How to Create Your Own Local Premium URL Shortener Service

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn 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.

Richard Guay
Richard Guay • 19 Oct 2017
Uploading With Rails and Paperclip

Ruby

Uploading With Rails and Paperclip

Tutorial • Beginner

In this article we will overview Paperclip, a file uploading solution for Rails. You will learn its key concepts and see it in action by creating a demo...

Ilya Bodrov
Ilya Bodrov • 11 Apr 2017
Uploading With Rails and Carrierwave

Ruby on Rails

Uploading With Rails and Carrierwave

Tutorial • Beginner

You will learn how to work with Carrierwave, a very popular and feature-rich file uploading solution for Rails, while crafting a demo application.

Ilya Bodrov
Ilya Bodrov • 3 Apr 2017
How to Use OmniAuth-Twitter in a Rails Application

Ruby on Rails

How to Use OmniAuth-Twitter in a Rails Application

Tutorial • Beginner

In 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...

Kingsley Silas Chijioke
Kingsley Silas Chijioke • 29 Mar 2017
Uploading Files With Rails and Dragonfly

Ruby

Uploading Files With Rails and Dragonfly

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn how to enable support for file uploading in Rails. Create a small musical website while learning the basics behind Dragonfly integration, image...

Ilya Bodrov
Ilya Bodrov • 23 Mar 2017
Authorization With Pundit

Ruby

Authorization With Pundit

Tutorial • Beginner

Pundit is a tool that allows you to restrict certain parts of your Rails application to authorized users. It does this by providing you with certain helpers....

Kingsley Silas Chijioke
Kingsley Silas Chijioke • 1 Mar 2017
Authentication in Rails Using Clearance

Ruby on Rails

Authentication in Rails Using Clearance

Tutorial • Beginner

Clearance 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...

Kingsley Silas Chijioke
Kingsley Silas Chijioke • 30 Jan 2017
Crafting APIs With Rails

Ruby

Crafting APIs With Rails

Tutorial • Beginner

You will learn about the new Rails feature allowing you to easily craft API-only applications. We will also discuss how to secure your API, protect it from...

Ilya Bodrov
Ilya Bodrov • 4 Jan 2017
Building Your First Web Scraper, Part 3

Ruby on Rails

Building Your First Web Scraper, Part 3

Tutorial • Beginner

In 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...

Ed Wassermann
Ed Wassermann • 28 Dec 2016
Uploading Files With Rails and Shrine

Ruby on Rails

Uploading Files With Rails and Shrine

Tutorial • Intermediate

You 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...

Ilya Bodrov
Ilya Bodrov • 26 Dec 2016
Building Your First Web Scraper, Part 2

Ruby on Rails

Building Your First Web Scraper, Part 2

Tutorial • Beginner

In 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...

Ed Wassermann
Ed Wassermann • 21 Dec 2016
Building Your First Web Scraper, Part 1

Ruby on Rails

Building Your First Web Scraper, Part 1

Tutorial • Beginner

Rubyland 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...

Ed Wassermann
Ed Wassermann • 14 Dec 2016