Creation of a New Rails App using Refinery CMS

Refinery CMSRefineryCMS is a powerful Ruby on Rails CMS. Here I have created a blog-cms application using Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.2.8

Step#1
Install the RefineryCms gem version 2.0.8 from the terminal

gem install refinerycms

Create a new rails application with ‘MySQL’ database using the command line in the terminal

refinerycms myblog -d mysql

It will automatically run the following commands

bundle install</div>
<div>rake  db:create db:migrate</div>
<div>rake  db:seed

Step#2
Go to the app on the terminal

cd myblog

Step#3
Start the rails server in the terminal

rails s

Step#4
Open a browser window and navigate to “http://localhost:3000/”
The signup window pops up to prompt you to create your first Refinery user. This is the Superuser of Refinery, which has the ability to create other users.
That’s it!
The application runs now.
Other useful information to customize Refinery CMS application

  • You can change the “Site Name” to a name of your choice currently displaying in the home page

In “config/initializers/refinery/core.rb”
config.site_name = “Company Name”

  • You can customize the design or functionality

To override files from refinerycms to the existing app we have to use the below commands

rake refinery:override view=file_name

Here are some examples:

rake refinery:override view=pages/home</div>
<div>rake refinery:override view=refinery/pages/home</div>
<div>rake refinery:override view=**/*menu</div>
<div>rake refinery:override view=_menu_branch</div>
<div>rake refinery:override javascript=admin</div>
<div>rake refinery:override javascript=refinery/site_bar</div>
<div>rake refinery:override stylesheet=home</div>
<div>rake refinery:override stylesheet=refinery/site_bar</div>
<div>rake refinery:override controller=pages</div>
<div>rake refinery:override model=page</div>
<div>rake refinery:override model=refinery/page</div>
<div>rake refinery:override presenter=refinery/page_presenter

Implementation of other refinerycms engines are also available

For example:

Add the gem to your applications Gemfile

  • gem ‘refinerycms-page-images’, ‘~> 2.0.0′
  • Execute bundle install
  • rails generate refinery:engine name

Example:

  • rails generate refinery:page_images
  • rake db:migrate

The Orangescrum Feature Summary

Constant updates to Orangescrum takes place as the engineers keep on adding new features almost every day. With these new features, your project management will now be simpler, faster, and transparent. Here are a few added:

Case Templates: Create templates for repetitive cases and choose them while posting cases.

Project wise Case Search: Search cases project-wise for effective easy case tracking & project management.

Case Glide Chart: A graphical chart to track bugs, enhancements, development, R & D, Quality Assurance, Maintenance and upgradations during a certain period in the project timeline.

Case Glide Chart

File or Case Archiving: You can archive files or cases not used anymore and also restore them back when needed.

Image Viewer and Direct Image Links: View attached images in your projects through the pop-up image viewer. Also, view images on Orangescrum from direct mail links and download them.

Image Viewer and Direct Image Links

Improved Email Notifications: You can now set preferences for receiving email notifications to admin or team members regarding projects/milestones etc.

Improvised Milestones Management: Keep track of overdue and upcoming milestones.

Improvised Milestones Management

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We’re on the process of adding some new features like calendars, Improved Time Tracking, and Project Report Generation to our future updates.

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Apple iPhone 5 And iPad-Mini: Rumors Or Truth

Lately there are rumors about the iPhone 5 is being under development to have a year end release. If the rumors are true then it will surely bring an excitement among iPhone application development industries.

With marginal improvement to iPhone 4, Apple launched the iPhone 4S in 2011 with voice recognition system Siri and a cloud storage service iCloud. Based on the iOS 5.1.1, iPhone 4S acts as hotspot by sharing its internet connection over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or USB and also users can access the App Store.

A reports say that a Taiwan based manufacturer is assigned with the development of iPhone 5 and the manufacturing process is under way. As per the rumors, the new iPhone will have the back of both glass and aluminum. The most debated features that the iPhone 5 may have are: 7.9 mm thickness, Retinal display, near field communication technology, Passbook feature from iOS and a quad core process in hardware configuration.

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Above all these there is also a possibility that iPhone 5 will come with a 19 pin dock connector instead of the current 30 pin connector, to include the headset jack aside. If this happens all the old dock connectors available with current versions will be useless.

Apart from iPhone 5, there are also rumors about an iPad Mini(a smaller version of iPad) will be launched in near future. As per anonymous resources its been claimed that the new iPad Mini will have a screen size of smaller than 8 inches compared to 9.7 inches of iPad. The third generation tablet iPad3 has major features like high resolution Retinal display, 5 MP iSight camera. And it will come with iLife and iWork apps.

If Apple is taking majors to develop iPad Mini or any similar product, hopefully most of these features or some better features will be incorporated into it. As per reports the iPad Mini will be launched during Christmas season of this year. But again there is no official announcement from Apple about these rumors. If iPad Mini is under development then it will surely give tough competition to Google’s recently released tablet Nexus 7.

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Most of the mobile application development companies are waiting to see whether these rumors will be true in the near future and ready to develop apps with the help of latest technologies. Andolasoft adapts a differential approach to become a leading iPhone application development company to fulfill business requirements and serve individuals by developing rather multitasking but simpler iPhone apps.

Here at Andolasoft we follow cutting edge technologies to develop easy-to-use apps to increase business efficiency and productivity. We’ve experienced iPhone application developers who work closely with you in an agile and innovative environment. We have expertise to develop apps those are intuitive and easy-to-use.

Various Resourceful Places to Find Amazing New Android Apps for Android Development

androidNow-a- days iPhone apps stores are the king in the market. Android market is growing day by day. The online apps store has reached the 20,000 mark and it is doubled as compared to the last five months. End users and Android developers struggle to get appropriate applications to meet their needs. There are various websites which are providing wonderful android mobile apps. as listed below,

Android website: Here one can get the latest apps and games. It is the showcase for some of the featured and top ranked applications and games available. The site has various lists of featured and top apps with brief descriptions with screenshots each.

Androlib: This is an online marketing store of Android apps known to human being. Here one can search apps thorough categorized. You can also get frank user reviews, screenshots, and QR codes for download, and, video demonstrations of apps. The site also contains stats, forums and special sections for games and the top app of the day

Cyrket: Cyrket is the holy grail of Android-related sites. This is the advanced data analysis and extraction which helps users to find their needed apps to buy and to allow android developers to learn how their applications fit into the mobile application. QR codes, screenshots, descriptions and user comments for most apps are available here. User can search Apps or sort by popularity, rating, price and other factors.

AndroidZoom: AndroidZoom is an easy-to-use app directory. Here the app pages contain descriptions, screenshots, rating and QR codes, but user cannot give feedback, reviews or comments on a specific app. The site does, however, show similar or related apps from the same and other developers.

Android applications are more flexible smart phones operating system whose features have increased to satisfy the users and moving it in to a new level of opportunity. Many software development companies are spending their time in developing various applications in Android but Andolasoft inc. is one of the best Android application development company in the market.

We have developed many mobile applications as per the client and user requirements. We have a team of dedicated, skilled and creative Android application developers to develop apps like shopping list, to do list, multimedia gaming applications, Social networking application, business and web based apps for various customer requirements

 

Ruby Rails Development Sphere & Associated Myths

Ruby on Rails development is fast changing the norms of web development across the globe.

Companies around the world are fast catching up with this magical web development framework for exploring and executing its true potentials; thereby serving their clients with really cost-effective, quick and dynamic Ruby on Rails Applications.

Ruby developers and Rails developers are becoming the most sought after skilled professionals, for Software companies to hunt for.

Ruby on Rails, being an Open Source tool, coupled with fast development life cycle, requires much less resources in terms of Programmers and man-hours; which results in the service provider and client being the ultimate beneficiaries.

Silicon Valley based leading Software firm, Andolasoft Inc. is a formidable force to reckon with as far as Ruby on Rails development is concerned.

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With a vast pool of Programmers as well as Domain Leads, this fairly young Enterprise has carved out many Social Networking Sites, Social Media Marketing web apps.

Andolasoft services include but not limited to RoR Development, RoR Application Migration, Social Media Integration, System Administration, Redesigning of Existing Apps, Performance Improvement Related Tasks and Rescue Support.

Irrespective of all its popularity, RoR also has few myths related to it.

Applications can be built hundreds of thousands times faster than other technologies: The fact is Rails doesn’t write the code automatically.

It just lets the developers work easy by managing certain functionalities; thereby allowing them to focus on other crucial modules.

It also manages the laborious part of lifting of user interactive modules. Having said that, such myths reflects a wrong opinion upon customers, whose expectations sometimes become too high for the service providers.

Even Non-programmers can build web applications: This is by far the silliest perception about Rails development. Although the simplicity of this framework and clean syntax of ruby language assist in quick development, but still experience is required as far as writing code is concerned.

Rails developers do need to write new and unique code, apart from using the Rails conventions on top a comprehensive web development framework.

The Era of Ruby on Rails Development

rails_image1With the advent of Ruby on Rails around 2006, it has revolutionized the sphere of web development.

Built on MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture, this relatively new technology in the field of web development has appealed to numerous developers.

Programmers, who were accustomed to writing thousands of lines codes in technologies like PHP and JAVA, were spellbound by this framework agility and features to create a full-fledged database-backed application within a few hundred lines of code.

An application which normally would have taken months or even years to complete, can now not only be wrapped up within days and months but also with considerably less number of developers.

Rails is backed up by the powerful object-oriented language Ruby, on which it is based. It also leverages the extensive patronage of Ruby for meta-programming.

It makes optimum use of code generation features, which eases out to complete applications and promote agile programming techniques.

Rails development is also unique in the field of web application because it makes use of two key design features which are DRY or “Don’t Repeat Yourself” and CoC or “Convention over Configuration”.

Agile Development Methodology, combined with DRY and CoC, not only helps ruby on rails engineer’s to develop dynamic web applications economically, in less time & code but also facilitates code reusability in the development process.

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