Ruby on Rails Deploying your Rails 5 apps to Dokku - Part 1 In this tutorial we will be using a DigitalOcean Droplet to install and run dokku and deploy a Rails app to it. After reading this tutorial, you will be able to: * Set up a DigitalOcean droplet using dokku * Install a dokku plugin to run your database * Deploy a Rails app
Ruby on Rails Tracking Visits with Piwik Analytics in Rails Piwik [http://piwik.org] is an open source web analytics tool written in PHP. With the first release in 2007 it quickly gained popularity as it is easy to install and organizations and individuals have complete control over the tracked data and not a third party (like Google). Right now
Ruby on Rails Exception Applications in Rails 3.2 No Ruby on Rails developer want to see them in production: Exceptions! By default every Rails project comes with two static files that get rendered when an exception in production occurs. The problem with these pages is, that they do not fit well into any design and do not tell
Ruby on Rails Introducing Turbolinks for Rails 4.0 David Heinemeier Hansson [http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/], creator of Ruby on Rails, recently announced on Twitter [https://twitter.com/dhh/status/251024691337244672] that a feature called Turbolinks will ship as default-on in the Gemfile of Ruby on Rails 4.0. Turbolinks is already [https://twitter.com/dhh/status/251111584317972480] powering
Ruby on Rails Using Neo4j with Rails 3.2 Neo4j is a NoSQL graph database written in Java. This means that you work with nodes and relationships rather than fixed tables with a schema. Nodes can easily be mapped to Ruby object and relationships seen as references to other objects. This article will show how to utilize Neo4j to
Ruby on Rails Device based website with Rails In recent years the multiplicity of devices connected to the internet has increased dramatically. In todays world people do not only surf the web on their desktop computer, there are smartphones, tablets and even TVs connected to the web. All those devices come with different screen resolutions and capabilities in
Ruby on Rails Static pages with High Voltage Dealing with static pages in Rails will almost always result in creating a special controller with empty actions that just render out some template. This task is so common that it is perfect to extract it out into a Rails engine. ThoughtBot [http://robots.thoughtbot.com/], the company behind the
