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options = { :body => 
  { :username => 'my',
    :password => 'password' 
  }
}
results = HTTParty.post("http://api.topcoder.com/v2/auth", options)

##
## example for post with papertrail and basic auth
##

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Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua & Deps
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria

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{
  "countries": [
    {
      "country": "Afghanistan",
      "states": ["Badakhshan", "Badghis", "Baghlan", "Balkh", "Bamian", "Daykondi", "Farah", "Faryab", "Ghazni", "Ghowr", "Helmand", "Herat", "Jowzjan", "Kabul", "Kandahar", "Kapisa", "Khost", "Konar", "Kondoz", "Laghman", "Lowgar", "Nangarhar", "Nimruz", "Nurestan", "Oruzgan", "Paktia", "Paktika", "Panjshir", "Parvan", "Samangan", "Sar-e Pol", "Takhar", "Vardak", "Zabol"]
    },
    {
      "country": "Albania",
      "states": ["Berat", "Dibres", "Durres", "Elbasan", "Fier", "Gjirokastre", "Korce", "Kukes", "Lezhe", "Shkoder", "Tirane", "Vlore"]
    },

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This is a list of steps to:

• Setup a new Rails app
• Initialize a local repository using git
• Create a new remote repository using GitHub
• Change README.rdoc
• Deploy to a cloud service - Heroku

Assumptions:

• Ruby is installed (v 1.9.3)
• Rails is installed (v 3.2.3)

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Realtime Notifications with ActionCable

In this episode we're going to be adding realtime notifications into your app using ActionCable. We've talked about notifications a few times in the past and we used AJAX polling for that. 95% of the time, polling is the solution that would be recommended for it.

But if you're looking for a good introduction into ActionCable then this is a decent one because we're only really using it for one way from the server side to the client side.

Getting started

So to get started we're starting with an app that has Bootstrap installed and then we created a Main controller with an index view which is where we will list our Notifications as for this example.

Before we generate our channels let's install a few things

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Subdomaining Localhost with Rails 5

I've been following this blog post on how to set up an api-only Rails 5 application. One of the sections talks about creating a subdomain for your api

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  constraints subdomain: "api" do
    scope module: "api" do

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Format	Meaning
%a	The abbreviated weekday name (“Sun’’)
%A	The full weekday name (“Sunday’’)
%b	The abbreviated month name (“Jan’’)
%B	The full month name (“January’’)
%c	The preferred local date and time representation
%d	Day of the month (01..31)
%H	Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23)
%I	Hour of the day, 12-hour clock (01..12)
%j	Day of the year (001..366)

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<div class="container">
	<div class="row">
		<div class="col-md-3">
			<%= render 'sidebar' %>
		</div>

		<div class="col-md-9">
			<table class="table table-bordered">
				<thead>
					<tr>

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.navbar.navbar-default
	.container-fluid
		.navbar-header
			button.navbar-toggle.collapsed
				span.sr-only
				span.icon-bar
				span.icon-bar
				span.icon-bar
			a(href="/" class="navbar-brand") Beker

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/* Dropdown */
.dropdown ul.dropdown-menu {
	border-radius:4px;
	box-shadow:none;
	margin-top:20px;
}
.dropdown ul.dropdown-menu:before {
	content: "";
	border-bottom: 10px solid #fff;
	border-right: 10px solid transparent;