January 31, 2023
At Kindleman, we use a combination of technologies and tools to build web applications, sites and business tools.
One of our favourites is Ruby on Rails (RoR). It's a web application framework written in Ruby programming language. It follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern and provides a structure for building web...
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March 21, 2022
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Will
Most websites have a set of pages that need to be arranged as a tree, allowing users to drill down into more detailed pages.
To manage that in the admin area, it's nice to be able to drag and drop the pages into the tree. Such a fancy feature is pretty...
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February 04, 2022
by
Will
When a website requires a lot of custom functionality, we often reach for RubyOnRails rather than something like WordPress or SilverStripe. Rails has a lot of capability that enables us to build CMS features comparable to the best CMS systems. So when you want something unique, you don't have to...
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December 04, 2018
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Will
With Rails 5 we now have ActiveStorage: built in file management with the framework. This is a fantastic adition to the framework as it standardises file management, instead of relying on 3rd party plugins. ActiveStorage adds two tables to your app that handles all the file details (active_storage_blobs) and the...
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October 13, 2017
by
Will
A system to please everybody.
A good administration tool needs to be a lot of things. It isn't just about basic crud anymore. You need it to be appealing to users so that it's a selling point for the project and users actually use it. It needs to help developers and...
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