sarah
Coding a Facebook canvas app in rails – my struggles
Back in October 2014 i had an interesting project. My task was to build a canvas facebook app for an existing web app called wishlist. My first thought was, how hard could it be? You just do what you do every day, coding a rails app. It could be very hard. I had some struggles […]
What I’ve learned 2014
I learned a lot in 2014. I learned from failure and some great experiences. One of those great experiences was eurucamp 2014 (read about it here). The ruby community and people i met there are terrific. It was good for me to be with like-minded people who do a similar thing like me. I’ve never […]
uploading an image as blob with ajax and rails 4.0
In a recent project i have to cope with image upload, but using a gem like paperclip or carrierwave seemed overloaded to be. It is just a simple logo upload for companies. So i decided to upload the logo as blob described in this post. But i had one problem: my uploading view is a […]
eurucamp 2014 – my first conference
Well, that was my first conference i’ve ever been. eurucamp 2014 in Potsdam, Germany. From 1st august to 3rd august. What should i say, it was amazing. eurucamp is not a usual conference, it’s more like a big family meeting with camping. Before the conference my expectations were really low, yeah you participate in a […]
verifying iOS store receipt on own server
If you have In App Purchases in your iOS app, apple recommends to validate the purchase. There are to ways: first connecting the apple app store directly within your app, and second send a so called receipt to your own server and having your server perform the validation with the App Store server. I want to […]
How to upgrade a very old restful_authentication to devise
Recently i had to upgrade a rails 2 app to rails 3.2. It wasn’t as difficult as i thought first, but i struggled with one task: authentication. The old app used a very old, not anymore supported version of restful_authentication. Restful_authentication was the then standard plugin for authentication, but is now out-dated. So i decided […]