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Hoptoad: A Rails Exception Handling Service


Many of you guys(as me) may have used Exception Notifier plugin to get Rails app exceptions right into your mailbox, and may also have faced some problem like this.
Also if you have 2-3 or more apps running in production then managing such exception mails is also a big headache. In such case one have to [...]

Configuring TinyMCE SpellChecker with rails application


Last month I spent much time while configuring tinymce’s spellchecker with my rails application. But finally I got it working and thought I could be a good post. To configure this I took some help form gusto’s blog and google (as usual). So, Lets do it now without spending more time.
First of all create a [...]

Hosting Rails app and Wordpress on same domain(as folder instead of subdomain)


Hey guys, Yesterday I did an interesting server configuration. Actually we had a rails app hosted on server which is using passenger(a.k.a mod_rails). This application can be access by going to http://domain.com . Also we had a wordpress running which could be access by going to http://blog.domain.com.
But, for SEO sake I had to change configuration [...]

Leopard sucks while installing/updating gems


May be you guys have noticed that when you try to install a new gem on your machine it says some thing like “Updating meta data for 500 gems” and display one dot per gem. These dots moves very slowly and stops in some time.
I faced this situation many times and found a solution some [...]

When Ultrasphinx is used with polymorphic associations…


Lets first consider simple has_many and belongs_to associations as:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :comments
end

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :article
end

Now if you wish to index the title of associated article with comment for searching, you just need to add ” is_indexed :fields => :body, :include => [{ :association_name => 'article', :field => 'title', :as=> [...]