Month: April 2010

Integrate Gigya Register Widget into your Application

by Sethupathi Asokan, posted in Ruby on Rails

Updated post with source code available here. In today's world, with everyone managing multiple online accounts, it painful for users to create and remember yet another set of new credential just for your application. To overcome this issue we can use social networking API but this too has other drawbacks. For example, how many social … Continue reading Integrate Gigya Register Widget into your Application

Using Rackspace CloudFiles with paperclip

by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby on Rails

Thoughtbot (the makers of paperclip) have not yet integrated Rackspace CloudFiles into paperclip. CloufFiles is the Rackspace CDN storage (similar to S3 but with CDN support). CDN support is very critical when we are streaming large files like videos. Assumption: You know how paperclip works and have installed all paperclip pre-requisites like ImageMagick. Installation In the … Continue reading Using Rackspace CloudFiles with paperclip

using thinking sphinx search in rails app

by sandipransing, posted in Ruby on Rails

I am using acts_as_ferret and ferret server as of now with my rails application and it just works fine for me. The ONLY problem is performance as it takes a lot time to build index and to rebuild index when it gets screwed up and that's where sphinx rocks! To get started with thinking sphinx … Continue reading using thinking sphinx search in rails app