1. L10n Best Practices in Rails

    We’ve been doing Ruby on Rails projects here at Agency Fusion for a year now. I’m somewhat of a stickler for doing things The Right Way™. Luckily, the Rails framework has a pretty nice method for translating strings throughout the site. In this post I’m going to outline some of the different ways that you can implement localized strings and the advantages and disadvantages of each. …


  2. Handling Transactions in Rails

    I’ve had a few opportunities lately to work with transactions in Rails. Transactions are useful when you have more than one model that needs to be saved in one pass, but you don’t want to have to deal with deleting one if the other doesn’t save successfully, etc. Basically, if you save a model within a transaction and it fails, any other models that were saved in that transaction will be rolled back. …