March 31, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Rails 4’s Awesome enums

In Rails 4 enum was introduced to support a feature that people were building by hand or by gem.  What enum does for you is it associates a symbol list for you to reference which will be stored in the database as an integer.  So :cow could be 0 and :dog could be 1 in…

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January 5, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Dealing with Rails 4 forms and params

In the learning stage of Rails developments one will come across different scenarios of handling parameters from Rails forms that are submitted.  Also since Rails 4 introduced Strong Parameters there are some additional things to keep in mind. Form Params 101 Parameters: { “utf8″=>”✓”, “authenticity_token”=>”nqLr/ZukyXt5/sFNU9FGciBbSOSJ2MkE7Roo5WwfVEo=”, “profile”=>{ “first_name”=>”Daniel”, “last_name”=>”Clark”, “socials_attributes”=>{ “0”=>{ “kind”=>”twitter”, “username”=>”@6ftdan” } } },…

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