Category Archives: Ruby on Rails

Case Study: Improving Performance of MySQL, Thinking Sphinx in a Rails app

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

Recently, we faced a huge performance problem with one of our installed apps. The application is a Call Center ERP solution. The Call model is updated very frequently as there are about approximately 8,000 – 10,000 calls being made everyday. … Continue reading →

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Payment Gateway testing using webmock

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

Testing the payment gateway involves lots of scenarios like what should happen if exception is raised while doing payment. To test this scenario we have to call payment gateway API and take response. But herein lies a problem. The test … Continue reading →

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Stubbing Geo-location requests using webmock

Posted on August 2, 2011 by

Geo-location integration is common today for every web application. We have gems on hand, to integrate Geo-location to our application. With few steps of configuration we can Geo-code our attributes ie., user addresses. But testing Geo-coding integration takes much more … Continue reading →

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