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Hiring – Ruby on Rails Developers

 by Shalin  on   05 Jun 2012

At Tenmiles, we build apps using a lot of programing languages and frameworks. Ruby on Rails is one. We have done amazing things with Rails, take for instance, building one of Asia’s largest online event registration platforms.

If you are someone who loves to take upon interesting challenges and work with a vibrant team of passionate Rubyists, these are the skills we are looking for:

Essential Skills

Self motivated quick learner.
Deep knowledge of Ruby and Rails
2 – 3 years of experience in web application development with Rails 2 or above, JQuery and MySql2
Experience in using distributed source code control like Git.
Development Experience with strong design, coding, testing and debugging skills.
Love for good UI

Nice to have

Knowledge of configuring and optimizing Apache and Phusion Passenger.
Experience in e-commerce applications and payment gateway integration, building APIs, running and maintaining background jobs and full-stack performance tuning
Familiar with other Ruby frameworks, HTML5 and CSS3. If you’ve written code in these, that’s even better.

Experience/Education

2-3 years of relevant technical experience is required.

A Bachelor’s degree in Computers / Technology / Science or anything else for that matter.

Even no degree will do, we value the depth of knowledge than anything else. Are you a drop out and obsessed about web applications? We are more than more happy to talk to you.

At Tenmiles, you will develop and maintain Rails apps. You will turn good ideas into user friendly apps.

What do we offer?

Great team and products to work on. You will participate and have impact on decisions both in technical terms and in the business domain. We raise no wall against good ideas. We take care of you, so that you can take care of the apps you build.

If you are interested, here is how you can apply. Mail us at jobs@tenmiles.com. Describe yourself, your career path, interests, past work and anything related in a simple mail and send it to us. Please give appropriate links/urls of your past work or anything you’ve been doing so far. Sending your resume is optional, but if you do, send it in PDF format & keep it short.

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Rails Refactoring tip: Dry up your constants

 by Anand  on   04 Aug 2011

If you observe your rails app, you might come across some set of values constantly being used. It is a good idea to identify them and dry them up. For example, in the models, you might have used a Regular expression for checking the validity of email attribute.

in app/models/account.rb

 validates_format_of :email,:with => /(^([^,@\s]+)@((?:[-_a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})$)|(^$)/i

in app/models/delegate.rb

validates_format_of :email,:with => /(^([^,@\s]+)@((?:[-_a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})$)|(^$)/i

Don’t you see, its very hard to keep using it across models or any other ruby files. For this, We can create a file called constants.rb in config/initializers and declare a constant (with a good, rememberable name) there.

In config/initializers/constants.rb

EMAIL_REGEXP = /(^([^,@\s]+)@((?:[-_a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})$)|(^$)/i

Restart the server now. Then in the model file shown above, we can use it like 

validates_format_of :email,:with => EMAIL_REGEXP

We can use the same technique with other constant values that are used more than once in the application.

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Equality Gotcha of ActiveRecord Objects

 by Anand  on   22 Jul 2011

Two Activerecord objects when compared over == operator returns true when they are instances of the same ‘model class’ && if they have same ‘id’ values. This operation is not an attribute-by-attribute comparison. Beware, this behavior can give problems when you do a lot of == operations b/w Activerecord objects, in your application, in which case you need to override == operator of ActiveRecord::Base according to your needs.

Here is a sample behavior of == operator.

ruby-1.9.2-p180 :001 > p1 = Person.first
=> #<Person id: 1, name: “John”, email: “john@gmail.com”>
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :002 > p2 = Person.first
=> #<Person id: 1, name: “John”, email: “john@gmail.com”>
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :003 > p1.name = “somethingelse”
=> “somethingelse”
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :004 > p1.save
=> true
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :005 > p1
=> #<Person id: 1, name: “somethingelse”, email: “john@gmail.com”>
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :006 > p2
=> #<Person id: 1, name: “John”, email: “john@gmail.com”>
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :007 > p1 == p2
=> true

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ActiveRecord Finders: Returns nil or Throws Exception

 by Anand  on   19 Jul 2011

ActiveRecord finders behave differently for various types of finders. Suppose you have a model called Account. Here are the ways you can get a record with id 34 in the `accounts` table.

acc = Account.find(34)
acc = Account.where(:id => 34).first
acc = Account.where(:id => 34)

Suppose a record with id = 34 does not exist in `accounts` table. Most programmers would think that the finders will throw ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound exception in all cases. No, thats not the behavior here. In the first case, using ‘find’ method returns ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound exception. Where as in the second case using ‘where’ method, it returns nil object. In the third case it returns an empty array []

ruby-1.9.2-p180 :001 > Account.find(34)
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound: Couldn’t find Account with ID=34
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :002 > Account.where(:id => 34).first
=> nil
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :003 > Account.where(:id => 34)
=> []

If we find records using ‘find’ method, it is assumed that we have prior knowledge of the table ‘accounts’ and the primary key values. So, if there is no record with that id, an exception is thrown. If we use ‘where’ method to find records, we are querying based on some conditions. If the query finds anything that matches our conditions, it returns the result. If it cannot find any record that matches our conditions, it returns an empty array or nil object.

Empty array is returned when we fire a non-singular query (as in third case). A Nil object is returned if we fire a singular query. This behavior have to be kept in mind when find records and apply conditions on them, in the Rails controllers.

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Rails Performance Tip: Query Optimization

 by Anand  on   11 Jul 2011

Rails applications will get significant performance boost if the sql queries sent to the database are optimized. Database must not be hit with requests unless there is an absolute necessity.

Two Basic steps for Optimization:

  1. Add database indexes on all foreign keys
    2. add_index :tasks, :project_id
  2. Use Eager loading to avoid n+1 query problems, in sensible places.
    3. Project.find(12).includes(:tasks, :notes)

    QueryReviewer gem:

This gem helps a lot in optimizing the SQL queries. For every page request, it gives good statistics on the number of queries, number of slow queries, in-efficient queries etc.,
Check it out.

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Image handling in RoR API using Paperclip

 by Nisha  on   13 Aug 2010

Image handling is a common task in an application and for Ruby on Rails we have quite a few plugins like rmagick, minimagick, paperclip, attachment-fu etc available to effectively do the same. Paperclip is by far the most loved and popular plugin used to attach images to a model in a rails application. It makes life easy with good documentation and screencasts available to guide through. But at an advanced level, the challenge comes in when an api interface to upload and download images needs to be provided for the model. As paperclip does not support this by iteself, and there is not much help or guide available to help solve this problem, this post makes life easier for ROR api developers, who have to provide a way to attach images sent through xml to the model.

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