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On my Ruby on Rails projects I usually use the Devise gem for user authentication.
In the last application I need to customize Devise so that users can register providing email address only. I will ask for a password only at the confirmation step.
After some tests, I come with this solutions.
1. First I need to overwrite [...]

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Every time you create a web application where users can register, it is good to exclude some login or username so that they can not be used.
A classic example is the login “admin”.
I believe that no one wishes that in its application will be a registered user with the username “admin” then can contact [...]

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Hello everyone.

I’d show a workaround to send email asynchronously using Devise and Rails3.

Suppose we have already up and running our application with Devise and delayed_job correctly installed.

A first attempt was to add in config/initializers the following file (devise_async.rb):

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module Devise
  module Models
    module Confirmable
      handle_asynchronously :send_confirmation_instructions
    end

    module Recoverable
      [...]

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In my last post I talked about Ruby’s hash.
Today I will resume and complete the argument by describing some of the things you can do to manipulate the hash values.
1. How to iterate over Hash elements
The Ruby Hash class provides three different iterators: each, each_key, each_value.
There is actually a fourth iterator, each_pair but it is [...]

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