ruby-on-rails – Page 2 – Notes to self

Sending JSON API like 401 Unauthorized error with Devise

If you are using Ruby on Rails together with Devise gem you might be wondering how to handle unauthorized error responces in your JSON API.

Following Rails redirects with Capybara

This a very short note on setting up Capybara to correctly follow redirects with Rails classic redirect_to @object pattern.

Specifying parameters encoding by action in Rails

At work I needed to accept a Windows-1250 encoding in URL parameters on some actions in one of our Rails API endpoint. The problem is that Rails will scream at you since everything needs to come as UTF-8. Future! Unfortunately some 3rd party Windows software might be still in the past… at that time I […]

Creating staging and other environments in Rails

Ruby on Rails come with three environments by default – development, testing and production. But sooner or later one has a need for staging environment. And don’t get me wrong, you can (or should?) use the production settings there, but if you run it locally or on the same server as production, chances are you […]

InvoicePrinter: generate PDF invoices and receipts in seconds with pure Ruby

They are many options how to generate PDF versions of your invoices in Ruby and the ones that do not come with system dependencies are often built on top of Prawn library. InvoicePrinter is no different. Here is a short announcement on what it is (and aims to be) and what not.

Testing PDF generation in Ruby

If you have ever generated PDFs in your Ruby apps you were probably also asking yourself how do I test that the PDF turns out the way I want?

Fix can’t cast RGeo::Geographic::SphericalPointImpl to point

If you are using Rails with activerecord-postgis-adapter 3.1.4 perhaps you got into a point where you were suddenly getting the following error:

1	can't cast RGeo::Geographic::SphericalPointImpl to point