Recently while working on one of our project we came across requirement where we wanted Hubspot integration with our application for ease of sales team to manage user's data and understand their interactions and trends in application. I will quickly explain few things about Hubspot here in my article. What is Hubspot? In brief, Hubspot is a CRM which helps you monitor and fine tune many things regarding your application. Based on my analysis I will shortly list down few most important of them in order to give you more insights about it - Closely monitoring user interactions with your

Sometimes we need to show different text based on some count. Like for example: if box_count == 0 message = "No boxes present" elsif box_count == 1 message = "Only 1 box present" else message = "There are #{box_count} boxes" end You can refactor this to make use of i18n locales power. In en.yml you can do - en: boxes: message: zero: No boxes present one: Only 1 box present other: There are %{count} boxes And in view we can use: <%= t('boxes.message', count: 2) %>

Rails provides three types of caching techniques: page caching action caching fragment caching The rails_guides_on_caching is the best place to know how it works. This article is to demonstrate fragment caching the Rails Way with various data-stores and clearing those cached fragments on ActiveRecord callbacks on CRUD operations. Rails ActiveSupport::Cache::Store is responsible to do all the read and write operations. 1. The setup By default caching is disabled in rails. You will find the following config commented out in production.rb # Use a different cache store in production # config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store You

I thought to create a quick tip post which is kind of lesson learnt, so that every time I learn something can add here and which could help others too. These examples here are not something I have created to support the points which I have mentioned below. Whereas these are the real code snippets of a project. Where team has written code in this manner and given feedback to improve their code. So I thought it would be better if I write a Lesson learnt post which could help other to be aware of mistake they can make while

This topic is about using Redis and LUA script in Rails. Before proceeding, you may like to read [ Introduction to LUA script with Redis][1] Redis doesn't have any command to calculate total number of keys We'll use [zrangebyscore][2] to find number of members between index range. Instal [redis-rb][3] Start rails console Prepare a dataset based on timestamp > t10 = 10.minutes.ago => 1386935151 > t20 = 20.minutes.ago => 1386934568 > t30 = 30.minutes.ago => 1386933971 > t40 = 40.minutes.ago => 1386933374 This is non-realistic data, may vary for you. Populate redis with Sorted Set > redis = Redis.new # initialize redis => # zadd -