Software engineering and personal development

Month: February 2018

Rename Rails controllers, views and migrations with Rails Refactor

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There can be cases where you wished you named that controller a lot better, as it does not make any sense and is very ambiguous in its current form. If you have ever wondered whether there is a way for you to do quick renamings of multiple related files inside a Rails project, then I have some good news for you. There is already a gem called Rails Refactor, that can be used to do these renamings. Continue reading

Add translations fields in RailsAdmin using rails_admin_globalize_field gem

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In the last post, we saw how we can translate a variety of dynamic contents that we may have in our Rails applications using globalize gem. There is another complementary gem to globalize that can be used to do these translations inside Rails Admin, which make it a lot easier and simpler to insert these translations inside RailsAdmin’s user friendly interface.

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Translate dynamic content using Globalize gem

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We are in an interconnected world, where people across the planet can use the projects that we develop, and having the opportunity to offer them with additional international languages make them a lot better. We can obviously use locale for doing the translations of static strings like labels, or placeholder descriptions that appear across our applications, so we should also have something that can give us a way to translate the dynamic content.  There is a really great Ruby gem that makes the translation of model attributes a lot easier. This gem is called Globalize and is very easy to use.

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Set up your macOS development environment using Thoughtbot’s Laptop script

One of the things that may prevent us from changing or even just thinking of changing our working environments is the necessity to do all the installations and the configurations that we once set up that are needed for software development. Fortunately, there is a cure for this pain. Laptop is a script that prepares your working macOS machine for web and mobile development.

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