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by Syed Aslam in Ruby · 2 min read
Lately, I have been working applications which require data from an external source to be loaded into the local database. One such application is Sydrea (in the making!), which requires the Drug information to be loaded. Drugs@FDA is freely downloadable compressed zip file which ...
by Syed Aslam in Rails · 1 min read
The flash provides a way to pass temporary objects between actions. Anything you place in the flash will be exposed to the very next action and then cleared out. This is a great way of doing notices and alerts, such as a create action that sets flash[:notice] = "Successfully crea ...
by Syed Aslam in Rails · 2 min read
A traditional Rails application uses a single application. We interact with it by writing models that inherit from ActiveRecord::Base which translate connection details (from config/database.yml) via the method establish_connection. Its a spatial application where everything is c ...