I recently moved one of the Rails applications that I manage, from Engineyard to Elastic Beanstalk on Amazon AWS. All in all, it ended up taking a little bit longer than I expected. To get the webapp up and running was not the big issue, but all the things around it, like third party dependencies and background workers, etc.

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Tags: elastic-beanstalk, delayed-job, ruby-on-rails, aws

I feel like I have been neglecting my own site for far too long. It really was time to change the layout of it to match the expectations of recent web layout standards. For a while now, everyone has been talking about responsive design and mobile first. So I figured it was time to apply it here as well.

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Tags: Foundation, Responsive, SASS, Media-Querries

This is not gonna be any news for a lot of people out there, but I recently discovered the beauty of the git command stash. And even though I feel a little embarrassed about the fact that I did not discover it earlier, I decided to post a quick note about it.

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Tags: git, git-stash, Workflow

One method that I frequently use in Rails is the find_or_create_by_* method ( If you can call it one method since it comes in so many variations ). As it implies, this method will try to find a record from one or many attributes and create it if it does not find it. But like so many other functions, it has undergone some changes along the way.

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Tags: Ruby-on-Rails-3

I recently wanted to implement a drag and drop browser upload to one of my existing Rails applications. Even though it was not difficult, it felt quite rewarding once it was working (because I don’t like the classic upload forms). So I decided to share the solution for anyone who wants to do something similar.

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Tags: Drag N Drop, Ruby, Rails, Paperclip, fileuploader