Full Text Search With Sunspot and Mongoid in Ruby on Rails

Introduction

In this tutorial, we will implement a full text searching functionality with sunspot gem. Sunspot is a Solr powered search engine for ruby based projects. ORM of the tutorial is Mongoid.

Rails Namespaced Scaffold Generator

Introduction

When I must create a project with an admin panel, I need to do it fast and my choise for this purpose was rails’ scaffold generators. But I must add an :admin namespace for all of my controllers for the admin panel. Rails’ default scaffold generator has not a feature like that. So I find a solution with rails admin scaffold gem. This gem is simply make a namespace for scaffold controllers and organize urls and paths accordingly.

Auto Scale Heroku Dynos With Hirefire.io

Hirefire.io is a service that auto scales your heroku dynos. It is running both web and worker dynos and scales them according to websites current respond times and non-processed jobs. The setup of this tool is very easy.

Rails Has_many Through Association With Counter Cache Argument

Counter cache argument prevents you from making unnecessary SELECT COUNT (*) requests.

We want to make unnecessary @course.users call for each course.

Next association is a basic example for :has_many, :through association.

Setup Octopress Blog and Deploy to Heroku

Initial Setup

I created this blog site with octopress. Formerly, I was using blogspot but I want to change a flexible platform like jekyll based octopress. Here is how I setup this blog site from scratch.