So here’s another cool thing from the development of poll4.me that might interest some people. When I’m creating or editing polls, I have the option of adding an arbitrary number of answers. I don’t want to just leave an infinite number of form fields for the user to potentially fill in if he wants to [...]
For my new poll4.me application, I’m using MongoDB and need to be able to connect to the authenticated database in production, but not necessarily in my development environment. I couldn’t find anywhere online that shows specifically how to do that, so I’ll post it here. MongoMapper.connection = Mongo::Connection.new(config['db_hostname']) MongoMapper.database = config['db_name'] if config['db_username'] MongoMapper.connection[config['db_name']].authenticate(config['db_username'], config['db_password']) [...]