A common feature in most web apps is filtering and sorting items, doing this in Rails 2.1 got really simple and clean with named_scope. Here is a quick tutorial on how we do it in our apps:
We start by defining the filters and sorting options as scopes:
# Types
named_scope :rentals,
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As mentioned in our last post, our team is bigger and we are extremely excited with the new members of our team. It’s key for a business as small as ours to get it right when hiring its first employees. We knew that a “bad hire” would affect us tremendously by slowing our effort to [...]
With an increasing workload, we’ve had the need to get more resources on our side. We tried to take some time to find good people, we worked with contractors, but felt the need to have some face to face talks. More importantly, we want to work with people who understand where we want to get [...]
As we get started to roll in 2008, we decided to look back and evaluate the things that happened in the company in 2007. The first year of a company is always the hardest one, because is the year where you establish in a new market, and where you have to make a difference to [...]
A couple of months ago we moved to our new office and now we moved to even a bigger and newer one. It is still in the same building (Al Thuraya2 Tower) in DMC, but we moved two floors up to the 8th floor.
The main reason we moved actually is the space, specially after our [...]
We are great fans of Mac computers, and just got some new Apple gear for the office. We got a couple of MacPros, an iMac, and Cinema Displays.
We are running Leopard in our super fast machines, and enjoying hacking like kids.
We’ve recently moved into our new office in Dubai Media City. After a long wait, the Business Centre in building Al Thuraya 2 has been handed over to tenants, and we’ve moved about 1 month ago. The space is very good for a startup like us, and we started to receive clients, and friends in [...]
This is really exciting, Cloves Carneiro Jr. my partner and the co-founder of SpinBits got his first book out today. It’s a Rails book, published by Apress and co-authored with Jeffrey Allan Hardy, the man behind Quoted Printable, and Hampton Catlin the one behind HAML the famous templating engine for Rails.
*“Beginning Rails is the practical [...]
We’ve started to be featured in the local press in the last few days, featuring both SpinBits as a company and restate.ae as our main product. Here’s a list of the coverage we had and the angle each article covered:
AME Info
We were interviewed by Lisa Creffield from AME Info for the AME Info broadcast section. [...]
We finally got our web site design implemented, which is feeling like the start of exciting times for SpinBits. We will be launching two big projects in the next few weeks, and are working hard at making beautiful software.
We hired Shaun Andrews to get the web design, CSS and XHTML work done, and we are [...]
