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Tutorial: Using Google Service Accounts With A Rails Application

September 8, 2014August 3, 2022 by Yogesh Khater, posted in Ruby on Rails, Tutorials

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

My experience at RubyConf Brasil, 2014

September 2, 2014September 4, 2014 by Rishi Jain, posted in Conferences, General, Ruby on Rails

This was my first time attending Rubyconf Brasil and it is one of the best experience I have ever had at a conference. The conference for the speakers started a day early. There was a barbecue party arranged at the Codeminer HQ. It was a good idea since a lot of speakers were not from … Continue reading My experience at RubyConf Brasil, 2014

Tussle Of The State Machines

August 28, 2014August 3, 2022 by Pankaj Kumar Rawat, posted in Ruby

There's no shortage of Ruby state machine libraries (assm, state_machine, etc.). However when we needed to implement dynamic state machine we didn't find one. The Problem We needed a polymorphic class that could have different state machines triggered in it depending on some condition. Basically, here is what we wanted to achieve: Now the problem … Continue reading Tussle Of The State Machines