Web Icons can make your web applications look prettier and also have a better user experience. So, when it comes to placing icons in your web applications, don’t go for paid ones because you can literally find thousands of open source icon libraries for free, that too in multiple formats. So, here is a list…
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Devise tutorial: adding avatars with active storage
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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SEO friendly URLs with friendly_id
What is a SEO friendly URL ? So, normally rails’ routes looks like these: ‘/posts/122’, ‘/photos/45531, ‘blog/posts/54222’ and so on. This is because rails finds the resource’s records by looking at the record id. This is alright for private applications like research apps, academic apps, management apps, etc. But, if you were to build a…
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