Active Job
Hey guys! I hope you are doing great. Recently I worked on a Spree extension to index products to an Elasticsearch server. To do this, I used an enqueued job to send the model to Elasticsearch. In the outside world, you can use different...
How to Clean Your Nested Layouts in 5 Minutes
As a front-end developer who have worked on many projects, I've seen a lot of content duplication in views. Let's see an example: For Spree applications, if we want to edit our Spree base layout, we should use Spree Deface...
Use Rails URL Helper with Javascript
Sometimes in some projects that I worked on I needed to use Rails URLs inside my JS, but I couldn't do this directly because, as you know, we need to integrate our scripts in some .erb file to be able to use them. So, to save you...
Uploading into Amazon AWS images and Sitemaps on Spree 2.2 or Rails Apps
Hello guys I want to share with all of you a way to set up your Spree 2.2 or Rails app to upload your product images and the sitemap file into a cloud storage service, like Amazon AWS. Spree uses Paperclip for upload purposes, so if...
How to add custom attributes in Spree
Having had the chance to work with Spree 2.2, the latest version at the moment, I noticed that sometimes you need to extend some permitted_attributes inside controllers. More specifically, sometimes you need to add attributes to your...
Little spree performance tips
I started working with Spree almost 5 weeks ago and let me tell you that at first I was scared. That because I didn't know much about it, but the trick was to lose your fear and go deeper into Spree code to learn as much as you...
Sanitize your data from your Rails + Postgres application
Hello all, this time I would like to show you how to sanitize your database using a very simple Ruby script. This example has a very specific goal. You will find this useful if you are using Postgres as your database engine and Rails...
Multi-threading with Celluloid
Last month, a coworker and I were working with complex tasks that required a lot of time to process, so he suggested we use Celluloid to reduce the amount of time by making our tasks multi-thread. So we decided to give it a a try,...