Chronicles of a Ruby Developer

Week 4- BrainTree integration The whole week was focused on the payment workflow and integration with BrainTree. It was a complex process getting our app to integrate and ensuring all the proper fields are passed on to their servers. I'm not saying that it is complicated to integrate with BrainTree,...

I've also been occupying my time in organizing a team to participate in the Rails Girls Summer of Code . I just chanced upon this in my Twitter feed and thought I would check it out to see what the buzz is all about. As I was reading through it,...

That was all we did in week 3, creating email tokens and testing it. It doesn't sound like a lot for 6 hours of lesson but we sure did a lot of discovering when dealing with BCrypt in creating tokens and the output of encoding the hash using urlsafe_encode64. At...

So, we have finally arrived at the heart of the app which is sending invitations and confirmations through email using Mandrill. Mandrill is an email service with SMTP setup and API integration. There is even a Mandrill course on Codecademy (yipee!) if going through the documentation is not your thing...

And so it began, my experience in building a Rails app with the guidance of a professional. The class is definitely not for the ultimate beginner as attendees are expected to have completed the Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial. Don't give up on this tutorial if you think the...