A very creative plug-in that turns your 'Back to Top' buttons into a delightful, unexpected experience.
Created by Tim Holman.
The 'Back to Top' Elevator
22 Apr 2015
Development Posts
Sending actions to your Ember Components.
8 Apr 2015
We ran into an issue requiring us to send an action from our Ember controller to a component rendered within its template. A surprisingly difficult task due to the compartmentalization of Ember's Components, and the frameworks emphasis on "data down, actions up".
Fortunately we ran into this post by Sam Selikoff and the ember add-on it has inspired, ember-component-inbound-actions.
We didn't end up using the add-on due to the overall simplicity of the solution at hand, but it was so good we just had to share!
Thanks Sam!
How to create an 'off' click event - the Ember way
6 Apr 2015
We’ve been working on a project recently in which our designs called for a hover dropdown menu that did not close until the user clicks outside of the drop-down. Creating something like this in jQuery and in a Ruby on Rails app would have been a no-brainer. But I quickly discovered it wasn’t going to be quite so straightforward in our new Ember app.
The Results of the 2014 Rails Hosting Survey are in!
31 Jul 2014
We are proud to announce that we have released the results for the 2014 Ruby on Rails Hosting Survey! This year was an interesting challenge for us because we decided to display the results from previous years along with this year’s data.
How did we do that, you may ask? Charts! If a question was asked in a previous year, the viewer may switch the active color of the chart to highlight the data for that specific year. Neat-o!
We’ve made comments about what has changed throughout the years, but we want you to play around with the data and compare.
Thank you to everyone who participated this year!
Take a look at the Ruby on Rails Hosting Survey 2014.
An Incremental Migration from Rails Monolithic to Microservices
23 Jun 2014
Having worked on some large legacy apps, breaking things out into microservices is looking more and more attractive these days. But how, and where to start? This article takes a look at how you might answer these questions and why, using Barrister RPC.
Using Named Scopes Across Models with ActiveRecord#Merge
23 May 2014
I ran into this exact issue in a project recently and had no idea there was a way to use scopes from joined models like this.
8 Insanely Useful ActiveAdmin Customizations
14 Apr 2014
ActiveAdmin is insanely useful, but sometimes you need to do something a little out of the box, and that's when it gets more difficult. That's when a post like this is a lifesaver.
Getting a Grasp on Scope in Javascript
11 Apr 2014
Javascript Weekly's Newsletter for this week features David Aragon's talk at jQuery Conf. He talks about scope and learning how to utilize This in Javascript.
I found it really helpful, plus it features plenty of Game of Thrones references (no spoilers!).
Easily add canonical URLs to your Rails app
4 Apr 2014
There has been a lot of talk lately about canonical URLs and how Google and other search engines would really prefer if you would use them. So, what is a canonical URL and why should you use them?
The Weekly Orbit - March 24-28
28 Mar 2014
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