Dive into the archives.
- TextMate and Ruby on Rails
Up until now my adventures with Ruby on Rails have been within Aptana using the RadRails development plugin. While this is an excellent IDE, with limited resources on my old G4 Powerbook (1.33 GHz with only 512Mb Ram) the machine quickly grinds to a halt. I don’t help myself sometimes, with me running ITunes and [...]
- Railscast
Railscasts are awesome little tips in video format to give a better grip on rails and optimising your code, sponsored by the previously mentioned PeepCode. What’s even better is they’re available as podcasts, happy days!
Every week Ryan Bates will host a new Railscasts episode featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails. These screencasts are [...]
- Handy Ruby/Rails tips
I stumbled upon this post on Richard Senior’s blog iFingers that has some handy tips for newbies to both ruby and also rails. I recommend you check it out!
- PeepCode
Some great tutorial videos can be found at PeepCode. In particular, one that shows how easy rails makes it to create a javascript sortable list and also the different methods ActiveRecord provides to search and sort.
- ActiveRecord in Rails
Well I have been learning the basics of Ruby via the IRB and through TextMate (mac only, sorry) and now its time to start to work with rails.
I am impressed on just how easy it is to bring data to the page from a model class. There’s no need to put items into a property bag as you have to [...]
