Archive for the “Tutorials” category
Setting up simple OmniAuth authentication with Facebook
by Monica Olinescu on February 1, 2011
If you have watched Ryan Bates’ tutorial Simple OmniAuth you probably already know OmniAuth is awesome. Ryan doesn’t go into details about setting up OmniAuth with Facebook so this post has a couple of pointers to help out in that (…)
Setting up a High Availability Ruby on Rails environment with keepalived, nginx, HA Proxy and Thin on Debian Lenny
by Razvan on May 15, 2010
Contents Configure Keepalived and Nginx Configure HA Proxy Configure Thin Overview Nginx and HA Proxy have similar functions: they can both be used as reverse proxies and load balancers. In our case Nginx will be the reverse proxy and HA (…)
Building your own Lightbox with Javascript (part 1)
by Razvan on February 21, 2010
See the final result of part 1: Demo Why write your own lightbox? The simple answer is: to learn how it’s done. If you’re going to use if for an image gallery, embed flash and videos or even to load (…)
Adding multiple images to a Rails model with paperclip
by Monica Olinescu on February 13, 2010
How to add multiple images to a rails model – all in one form!
How to set up tax rules for sales within Canada in Magento
by Monica Olinescu on August 17, 2009
Objective: Set up the taxation system for Magento for sales within different provinces of Canada. Entering the Tax Rates for Retail Sales in Canada The tax rates used in this example are listed below. DISCLAIMER: the rates and tax rules (…)