Experience In Using IndexTank & Its various Facets

by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby, Search

IndexTank got acquired by LinkedIn just a while back and I received a newsletter saying that they may discontinue services in 6 months. My tweet about this got a few responses from Pat Allen (@pat - the creator of Flying Sphinx) and others, which ended up with me promising a brief comparison between Thinking Sphinx … Continue reading Experience In Using IndexTank & Its various Facets

Filter.js — A Client-side Search Filter With JSON & jQuery

by jiren, posted in Javascript

Speed for search result filtering is critical. Its fine for site users to wait for some time (maybe a few seconds) to load the search results but after that filtering better be fast otherwise people lose interest. To give a simple example of how things are not user friendly is if you go to ebay.com … Continue reading Filter.js — A Client-side Search Filter With JSON & jQuery

Discover How We Test Payment Gateway Using Webmock

by Siva Gollapalli, posted in Ruby on Rails, Tutorials

Testing the payment gateway involves lots of scenarios like what should happen if exception is raised while doing payment. To test this scenario we have to call payment gateway API and take response. But herein lies a problem. The test code you have written may work sometime and won't work another time. The reason behind … Continue reading Discover How We Test Payment Gateway Using Webmock