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What Are The Special Use Cases Of MD5 In Rails?

by Ganesh Sagare, posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails

What is MD5? The MD5 is a hashing algorithm. It is a one-way cryptographic function. It accepts a message of any length as input and returns the fixed-length digest value. There are various use-cases of MD5. I have listed few of them below. Use-case 1: Single Uniqueness Validation For Multiple Attributes. Have you ever stuck … Continue reading What Are The Special Use Cases Of MD5 In Rails?

All About Android’s In-App Update API

by Tanzila Inamdar, posted in Android, Android, Mobile Development

Being a developer, I would always want that the user should have latest/updated version of the app. After all, a happy and satisfied user is the measure of a good app. 🙂 But there are some barriers which come between the user and the latest version of the app. For example, automatic updates may only … Continue reading All About Android’s In-App Update API

What Are Reasons To Shift From EventMachine To Async

by Kirk Haines, posted in Ruby

In The Beginning A little over 13 years ago, I had been working as a freelance developer for over five years, primarily writing and hosting Ruby based web sites and applications for a variety of commercial interests, from mutual funds to construction to education. I had designed and built a reliable system architecture for deploying … Continue reading What Are Reasons To Shift From EventMachine To Async