Using The Google API Ruby Client with Google Calendar API

Google offers robust support for their APIs, including the Google Calendar API [https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/reference/], and the Google API Ruby Client [https://github.com/google/google-api-ruby-client] gem offers a comprehensive wrapper for this API, among others. Integrating these tools into a Rails 5 app still… »

Update: Setting a Current User Property with Ember Simple Auth

A little while back, I share a post on my approach to setting a current user property on an Ember app using the Ember Simple Auth library. That post received several helpful comments, including one from Marco Otte-Witte [https://github.com/marcoow], the creator of the Ember Simple Auth library.… »

Building User Registration with Ember Simple Auth

Not too long ago I used the Ember Simple Auth library [https://github.com/simplabs/ember-simple-auth] to set up client-side user authorization on an Ember app that connected to a Rails API back-end. This set up was largely facilitated by this excellent blog post [http://romulomachado.github.io/2015/09/… »

Persisting Records with Has Many/Belongs To in Ember

In this post, we'll build out a feature in an Ember app that allows a user create and persist new records of the has many/belongs to relationship. This app has two models, Song and Artist. A song has many artists and an artist belongs to a song… »

Building a Handlebars "each with index" helper

Here's a super quick post about building a Handlebars helper in an Ember app for numbering lists in the context of an {{each}} iteration in Handlebars. Because don't we all want to display dynamically numbered lists in our Handlebars template. Accessing an array's index… »