Rails

Yesterday at work, we decided to improve our user experience in web mobile. We decided it was time to create a different view for each action. In Rails 4 there is this really cool feature called Variants

When I first heard about this concept, I needed clarification. I was reading Learn Rails by Example by Michael Hart The concept was too complex to understand by then, so I researched. I found the Railscast episode Self-referential Associations, which shed some light on the concept.

Rails make it extremely easy to send emails. I’m not going to explain how to do it; there are pretty good tutorials around the internet, this one is well explained: Action Mailer Basics.

In a rails project I’m working on, I was trying to select from the database some sales with some conditions. Here is the Sale model: class Sale < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :voucher belongs_to :client has_many :line_items, dependent: :destroy has_many :bills end So the goal of the task was to obtain all the Sales where the LineItems has express_checkout set it to true.