There are multiple ways to add push functionality to an application, including Pushr and Pub-Nub, which are quite elegant and simple solutions. There are also some more advanced options. In this article, I’m going to show you how to use Faye, a messaging system that runs on both Ruby and Node.js.
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I hate signing up for websites. I’ve already signed up for so many, using different usernames, that going back to one of them and trying to remember my credentials is sometimes impossible. These days, most sites have begun offering alternative ways to sign up, by allowing you to use your Facebook, Twitter or even your Google account. Creating such an integration sometimes feels like a long and arduous task. But fear not, Omniauth is here to help.
Omniauth allows you to easily integrate more than sixty authentication providers, including Facebook, Google, Twitter and GitHub. In this tutorial, I’m going to explain how to integrate these authentication providers into your app.
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I come from a PHP background, but these days, I’m a full-time Rails developer. The difficulty for most people who make the switch lies in the learning curve that’s involved. Once you’ve become proficient in a language or framework, switching to a new one feels like an unnecessary (and time-consuming) challenge.
However, learning Ruby and Rails is actually pretty easy! It’s an incredibly powerful framework, and has a huge community pushing it along. So that begs the question: what’s the best way to learn Rails? Here’s a lesson plan.
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Every web developer knows that creating an administration interface for their projects is an incredibly tedious task. Luckily, there are tools that make this task considerably simpler. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Active Admin, a recently launched administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
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In today’s tutorial, we will learn how to painlessly protect your CodeIgniter (pre 2.0) application against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. The library we’ll be creating today will automate all of the protection mechanisms, making your site stronger and more secure.
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This Premium video, and companion article will teach you how to create a simple, yet powerful library to handle layouts in the popular CodeIgniter framework. The library you’ll create will allow you to maximize your efficiency, save time and code, modularize your views and even your Javascript and CSS files.
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