Sometimes, we prefer using Amazon EC2 directly for our Rails stack. No offense to Heroku but we need a more controlled environment; and no offense to EngineYard as they don't support MongoDB on their environment as yet. We were faced with several problems that we wanted to solve Control our environment without MongoDB hogging all … Continue reading Amazon EC2 and MongoDB configuration for great performance
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Ramblings on RailsRumble
Just when you think you are "too old for this shit" (ref. Lethal Weapon), there comes an opportunity that gets you back in action. In my case, it was Rails Rumble!! When I told my folks at home - "I'm going to be a 19 year old again and do a 48 hour coding stint" … Continue reading Ramblings on RailsRumble
How To Manage Roles & Permissions Dynamically Using Cancan
Most of us already use cancan for authorization, where we define the Role Based Access (RBAC) to various models in the Ability class. However, any changes to these abilities, requires code changes to the Ability class and restarting the application for the changes to take effect. What if we could assign these permissions dynamically? That … Continue reading How To Manage Roles & Permissions Dynamically Using Cancan
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