Mengu.net - Ruby On Rails http://www.mengu.net/ mengu on web programming. en-us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:23:57 AM +0200 Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:41:01 GMT Mengu.net mengu@mengu.net mengu@mengu.net 2011 At A Glance http://www.mengu.net/post/2011-at-a-glance I can call 2011 quite a good year on my behalf however when I look at things I've done, I feel I've done much less than I could. Here is a list of what I have done in 2011.

Things I've Done in 2011

  • Executed an idea we had with my brother, http://compector.com.

  • Built the start-up above with Ruby on Rails so I became more familiar with Ruby world.

  • I have made the switch to PostgreSQL from MySQL.

  • Got a job in one of Turkey's top web sites where we deal with thousands of concurrent users...

]]> 2012-01-01 04:07:11 http://www.mengu.net/post/2011-at-a-glance Compector Launches http://www.mengu.net/post/compector-launches Hello everyone!

After a very very long time I've got great news. We have launched Compector that we have been working on for almost a year now. Compector is a decision support system for employees. As in, when you apply for a job, they review your CV and call your references however you have no idea about the company. Questions start rolling in your head: "Have any people left that company? If so, why? How do they treat their employees? Are salaries paid on time? Are social benefits met?" We have launched Compector for you to find answers to all your questions.

How it all started?

Last year, my brother and I was wondering what would make a great application and would we do something that was helpful to people in the whole world and solving at least one problem for them. In that night we came up with nothing.

The following day..

]]> 2011-10-27 06:59:05 http://www.mengu.net/post/compector-launches Full Text Search With Ruby on Rails http://www.mengu.net/post/full-text-search-with-ruby-on-rails I'm working on something and I needed a search functionality so I did check out my options. I did not prefer MySQL's full text search functionality as I don't want MySQL to deal with it where there are tools created only for that. I did take a look at Sphinx, Solr and ElasticSearch. Among three of them I did prefer Solr. Luckily, kudos to Mat Brown, he had created a Solr gem for Ruby called Sunspot and a Ruby on Rails plugin on top of it called Sunspot Rails. In order to make it compact, I will explain all this with creating a sample Rails application.

]]> 2011-07-30 07:16:04 http://www.mengu.net/post/full-text-search-with-ruby-on-rails Why I Love Ruby? http://www.mengu.net/post/why-i-love-ruby Ruby is great. It is really great. I love it. I am not going to talk about why you should choose Ruby over other languages or anything, for that you can watch David Heinemeier Hansson's talk at RubyConf X. He gets into some "weird" stuff, you can skip that parts. I will just show you a piece of code and I'm pretty sure you will like it.

Anyway, there is this Rails app I'm busy with, for my brother's start-up. It has a Usergroup model and it has fields for permissions such as general_permissions, message_permissions and user_permissions. After posting the form from usergroup creating and editing pages, I have to set these fields' values from the form. At first, I only needed the general_permissions since the others were not in use yet. So my code was like this..

]]> 2010-12-13 03:21:21 http://www.mengu.net/post/why-i-love-ruby Rails 3 Beta is public. http://www.mengu.net/post/rails-3-beta-is-public We all are excited here because Rails 3 is coming and Rails 3 beta has been just released. There are lots of changes within Rails 3 and you can see them here. There will be method chain within ActiveRecord which is exciting.

If you wonder how you will upgrade your current Rails 2.x application to Rails 3, you can watch this screencast.

]]> 2010-02-05 07:11:57 http://www.mengu.net/post/rails-3-beta-is-public How To Choose A Web Framework? http://www.mengu.net/post/how-to-choose-a-web-framework I have started my web development journey with PHP. After a long time I heard there is something called web framework and then I wanted to learn the best one for me. I have reviewed and learned many frameworks and because of the fact that I'm a grasping person, I have learnt more than just one. Is this a mistake? A part of me says yes and another part says it's not a mistake. Both have reasons. So in this post, I will try to write a simple and short guide for people who are desperately unstable on choosing a web framework.

]]> 2010-02-04 06:52:39 http://www.mengu.net/post/how-to-choose-a-web-framework Line Breaks in Django and Ruby on Rails http://www.mengu.net/post/line-breaks-in-django-and-ruby-on-rails Let's assume you are developing a blog application with Django or Ruby on Rails. You have created your Post model and everything is working fine, except the paragraphs you have written during creating your new post. How do you solve this problem? It is very simple to do so in both Ruby on Rails and Django.

]]> 2009-11-10 11:10:19 http://www.mengu.net/post/line-breaks-in-django-and-ruby-on-rails