This blog post is not about how to parse spreadsheets using ruby. If you are looking for that, you are not gonna find that here. This blog post is about a problem I faced while parsing decimal numbers from a spreadsheet, long story short precision related problems. Here are the details (the longer version): Recently … Continue reading How Can You Parse Number Precisely In A Spreadsheet Using Ruby?
Month: September 2014
Part 5: Ruby Through Rails — Bundler Dsl
In this post, Sanjiv explains what happens under the hood when we do "bundle install". While learning in detail about how are gems loaded, we learn a few useful Ruby tips and tricks and see some meta-programming at it's pristine best!
Tutorial: Using Google Service Accounts With A Rails Application
While working a project, we needed to access Google calendar's API but with a difference - the application was supposed to create new event in the Google Calendar accessed by authenticated users. After a little bit of research, I came across the Google Service Accounts that allows back-end authentication using Google authorization service. Basically, these Service Accounts allows you to access Google API's … Continue reading Tutorial: Using Google Service Accounts With A Rails Application
