User Avatars Everybody knows what user avatars are. But if you’ve been living under a rock; ‘user avatars’ or ‘Profile Pictures’ are graphical illustrations of a user’s persona or character; i.e they represent/describe the user’s personality or alter ego. The word ‘avatar’ comes from the sanskrit language meaning ‘a manifestation of a deity or released…
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Enabling Gzip Compression in your rails apps
What is Gzip Compression? Gzip compression is a quick and easy way to speed up the loading times of your web application. This can be done by compressing the static assets like stylesheets, javascripts, etc before serving them to the web browser. This can save a lot of bandwidth and as well as make your…
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Adding custom error pages to our rails app
Default Error Pages Rails already comes with its own error pages which is okay but too simple, but we can add our own custom error pages, just to make it look a lot nicer, here’s a quick and easy way on how you can do that. Popular Examples The default error pages that comes with…
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