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Writing your own delivery method in Rails (4.+)

Imagine, you got your rails server and you need to send out a bunch of mails to your recipients. no big deal, but SMTP is just very slow when compared with things like simple HTTP API calls.

I set out a few days to write my own delivery method, but found online sources somewhat lacking, outdated or completely skipping this part of sending mails in rails. So lets start making a simple mail_delivery method that outputs the mail to a file in your project home.

You can change the postman step in this tutorial to match your API, etc. instead.

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Cheat Sheet: Simple Authentication in Rails 5 with has_secure_password

The goal of this cheatsheet is to make it easy to add hand-rolled authentication to any rails app in a series of layers.

First the simplest/core layers, then optional layers depending on which features/functionality you want.

Specs
AUTHOR	Ira Herman
LANGUAGE/STACK	Ruby on Rails Version 4 or 5

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-- Get Max ID from table
SELECT MAX(id) FROM table;

-- Get Next ID from table
SELECT nextval('table_id_seq');

-- Set Next ID Value to MAX ID
SELECT setval('table_id_seq', (SELECT MAX(id) FROM table));

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# lib/tasks/db.rake
namespace :db do

  desc "Dumps the database to db/APP_NAME.dump"
  task :dump => :environment do
    cmd = nil
    with_config do |app, host, db, user|
      cmd = "pg_dump --host #{host} --username #{user} --verbose --clean --no-owner --no-acl --format=c #{db} > #{Rails.root}/db/#{app}.dump"
    end
    puts cmd