Archive for the “Rails” category

Installing Rails on Leopard

by jpreardon on March 8, 2008

Leopard comes with Rails, but I prefer to roll my own in an effort to keep my environment stable. As always Hivelogic has the goods: Installing Ruby, Rubygems, Rails, and Mongrel on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Special bonus: Why (…)

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RESTfulness

by jpreardon on January 3, 2008

Gregg Pollack, of Rails Envy fame, gave a good presentation on REST web services at the Orlando Ruby User’s Group recently (video here). This is a great primer for anyone trying to figure out what all this REST stuff is (…)

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AJAX drag and drop on Rails

by jpreardon on November 24, 2007

Fallen Rogue has a succinct tutorial on implementing drag & drop lists on Rails. It also touches on implementing acts_as_list. This tutorial and the referenced sample application was good way to get drag & drop lists working quickly in my (…)

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Free Rails Book

by jpreardon on October 2, 2007

The PDF version of Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications by Patrick Lenz is available for free for the next 60 days. Click over to Sitepoint to download the complete book (20MB). The book introduces Ruby on Rails (…)

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RESTful Rails and Nested Resources

by jpreardon on September 21, 2007

This Nested resource CRUD tutorial does a great job of quickly explaining how to get a nested resource working in a RESTful Rails application. If you want some more detail, this RESTful Rails Development PDF covers more while still remaining (…)

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Rails Security Reference

by jpreardon on September 21, 2007

This Ruby on Rails security guide pulls together several excellent sources on securing Rails applications. It is broken down by category (authentication, model, controller etc.) so it makes for a great reference. via Ruby Inside

Rails and SVN

by jpreardon on September 15, 2007

Writing code without using version control is the equivalent of swinging on a trapeze without a net. Sure, if you execute each move flawlessly, you’ll be fine. But, one wrong move and you’ll fall to your death. Okay, coding mistakes (…)

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ActiveRecord Tutorial

by jpreardon on August 21, 2007

Rails Envy has a great screencast tutorial on ActiveRecord. Gregg does a great job explaining a couple concepts that can be difficult to grasp like has many :through and polymorphic relationships. This is well worth watching for anyone new to (…)

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Meet Java and Ruby on Rails

by jpreardon on May 14, 2007

You’ll only need to be mildly geeky to appreciate this Get a Mac inspired ad. Click to play video I wonder what’s in that final, mysterious jar? Kool-Aid perhaps? via Riding Rails Update 2006-05-16: These guys are posting an ad (…)

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Gotham Ruby Conference

by jpreardon on April 21, 2007

Rather than enjoying a long awaited Spring Saturday in New York, I was at the first–and hopefully annual–Gotham Ruby Conference. Although the great weather was enticing, the conference was well worth the day spent indoors. The fact that it was (…)

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