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Easier admin panel for Rails

I’ve been working on an admin panel for a certain Rails app. One of the most common tasks to writing an admin panel is to generate a table where each column is a different attribute for your model. This is easy to do, but very tedious.
To simplify the task, I looked at metaprogramming. Metaprogramming with [...]

Posted 03 May 2010 † admin § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

From ActiveRecord to Raw SQL

ActiveRecord is awesome. Its dynamic finder methods, scopes, and effortless joins make working with a database a snap. But there are always those times when writing raw sql makes more sense. In my case, I was joining across several tables, and then sorting by a value from the joined table. The problem was that my [...]

Posted 19 November 2009 † admin § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,