Author Archives: David Sulc

Adding a namespaced Rails generator to a standalone Ruby gem

Posted on May 22, 2011 by David Sulc

I wanted to add a generator to the SugarCRM ruby gem, but couldn’t find any straightforward resources on doing just that: taking a standalone ruby gem, and adding a generator that is available from within a Rails environment. To make matters … Continue reading →

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Contributing to open source

Posted on May 15, 2011 by David Sulc

Although contributing to open source projects now seems natural to me, there was a time when it was quite daunting and I had no idea where to start. Here, I’ll guide you through the steps I took to add some … Continue reading →

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Why Service-Oriented Architecture makes sense

Posted on May 8, 2011 by David Sulc

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been around for a long time, but in the last years it has started to become the obvious solution to many problems: where RPC, and CORBA are unwieldy, and big entreprisey J2EE apps communicating with SOAP … Continue reading →

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Self-marking required fields in Rails 3

Posted on May 1, 2011 by David Sulc

In a Rails 3 project I’m currently working on, I wanted to mark required fields automatically: if the model required the field to be present (via validates :presence => true or validates_presence_of), that field in the form would automatically be … Continue reading →

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Your laptop is a liability

Posted on April 24, 2011 by David Sulc

You got up early this morning to catch your flight, but your taxi still got stuck in traffic. After checking in (thank God for electronic check in!), you’re now stuck at the security check behind someone who evidently decided storing … Continue reading →

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Consuming a public Rails API with jQuery

Posted on April 17, 2011 by David Sulc

A previous post explained how to implement a public API in Rails. Here, we will cover how this API can be consumed with a cross-domain request using jQuery. The idea We’ll create a simple html file containing <ul> elements with … Continue reading →

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Implementing a public API in Rails 3

Posted on April 10, 2011 by David Sulc

As you’re probably aware, Rails helps out a lot when using generators: in addition to generating the views, it also provides XML access to data. What we’ll cover today is implementing a basic public API that can be consumed from … Continue reading →

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Ruby Gem for SugarCRM: Advanced use

Posted on April 5, 2011 by David Sulc

This is an article about “advanced” use of the SugarCRM Ruby gem. We’ve previously covered using basic gem functionality, and building a simple rails app using the gem to make a CRM portal, so you might want to take a … Continue reading →

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Ruby Gem for SugarCRM: Ruby on Rails Integration

Posted on April 4, 2011 by David Sulc

Having gone over the basics in a previous article, we will now cover how you can get a basic Rails 3 app (using the SugarCRM Ruby gem) up and running. (The SugarCRM Ruby gem relies on ActiveSupport >= 3, and … Continue reading →

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Ruby Gem for SugarCRM: the Basics

Posted on April 3, 2011 by David Sulc

The Ruby gem for SugarCRM has already been briefly presented in a SugarCRM Developer Zone article, but has been drastically improved over the last months. In the following lines, we’ll go over a few of these improvements and show you … Continue reading →

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