Archive for the “Ruby” 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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Gotham Ruby Conference Videos

by jpreardon on November 10, 2007

Videos of the Gotham Ruby Conference talks were posted way back in September; I promptly forgot about them. While cleaning out some files today, I was reminded of their existence. I’ve added links to each of the talks in my (…)

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Adhearsion at Ruby Hoedown '07

by jpreardon on August 22, 2007

I first heard about Adhearsion at GoRuCo ’07. Jay’s talk at GoRuCo was great and I think it got a lot of people excited about VoIP. Since then, he has really polished his presentation. At the Ruby Hoedown, he introduced (…)

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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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(Really) Getting Started with Ruby

by jpreardon on August 6, 2007

About a year ago, my curiosity was piqued by Ruby on Rails. I picked up a copy of Agile Web Development with Rails and built a quick sample site. But, I realized that more than a cursory knowledge of Ruby (…)

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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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