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Articles tagged legacy-rails

Simple data transfer with YamlDB

Ever need to transfer data from one database to another? Here's a solution that worked for me. (December 23, 2014)

More advice on legacy data migration in Rails

What do you do if your legacy data defies convention or is just generally complex? Here are some notes from my recent experience using rake to accomplish difficult data migrations. (December 11, 2011)

Authorization advice for Rails 3 and beyond

Here's the general process I follow whenever adding authorization—the logic that says what a user's allowed to do—to my Rails applications. (October 06, 2011)

Rails authentication today: Options for 3.0 and 3.1

There's no shortage of approaches to adding password-based security to your Rails applications. Here's a look at the current lineup. (September 21, 2011)

Migrate data to Rails applications with Trucker

Get legacy data? Trucker makes moving it from old codebases into new Rails apps with relative ease. (September 16, 2011)

Adding authorization to your Rails app with RESTful_ACL, part 3: Parent and child objects

Leverage your applications' model relationships to write complex, but clean, authorization rules. (June 24, 2010)

Adding authorization to your Rails app with RESTful_ACL, part 2: Basic ACLs

Here's how to protect your application's data through an easy-to-apply access control layer. (June 21, 2010)

Adding authorization to your Rails app with RESTful_ACL, part 1: Setup

Need easy-to-use authorization in your application? Check out this useful alternative to other, better known options. (June 16, 2010)

Hacking Restful Authentication

Edit user accounts and add administrator users to your legacy Rails apps using the popular Restful Authentication login system. (June 08, 2010)

3 Rails authentication options

It's almost inevitable that your Rails application will ultimately need some sort of login mechanism to protect access to certain parts. This post begins a series of looks at various options for authorization in Rails. (June 06, 2010)

Test with confidence!

If you liked my series on practical advice for adding reliable tests to your Rails apps, check out the expanded ebook version. Lots of additional, exclusive content and a complete sample Rails application.

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