Archive for January, 2010

Adding reCaptcha to rails is quite easy First create an account with reCAPTCHA and get your API keys. Secondly get the ambethia-recaptcha gem from github http://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha You can either install it as a gem by adding config.gem “ambethia-recaptcha”, :lib => “recaptcha/rails”, :source => “http://gems.github.com” to your environment.rb file within the config block, then from your [...]

Was working on a module in one of my Rails projects and I had to find the length of the audio file clients uploaded to that they can be billed accordingly, since this was voice sms it was very crucial. I combed the whole internet for solutions and could not find any, came across a [...]

I recently updated my rails gem and realised i was getting errors trying to create new rails projects in 2.3.5, below is the error i was getting. I went through a few debug modes checked but came up with no lasting solution. I finally checked for my installed gems “sudo gem list” and realised i [...]


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1Alfred is a seasoned programmer with over 8 years of experience, CEO of nCodedev Labs, a Ruby evangelist and activist. Loves programming most of the time, spends my free times with his family or trying out something new. He believes in doing more than expected of you and working hard at anything you find your self working on. As he always says, you don't have to take the bull by its horns all the time, you can take it by the tail too and move on to the horns when you stronger.