Stupid Things I Did Today

  • Running the latest version of Rails

    By this I mean running the latest Gem version not Edge. In config/environment.rb is a line that says something like RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.1.0' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION You can either set this to a specific version or if you want to run...
  • Rails - Routing

    It's been a while since my last post, that's a mixture of being at PDC and battling with Rails routing so that I understand it better and so that I can bend it to my will! I've finally got something working to my liking but it's taken...
  • Rendering and Layouts

    As this is the Pluralsight blog I'm assuming that most people reading this are .Net folk and that you will have at least a passing familiarity with ASP.Net, so occasionally I'll draw comparisons with Microsoft's framework. ASP.Net has had...
  • Rails - Database Access

    One of the driving forces of Rails is to make things easier for developers. It does this partly by taking decisions out of developers hands. It's an 'opinionated' framework, and one of the opinions it has is on the pattern to use for database...
  • Rails - Testing

    Now that we have a Rails app up and running, all be it a simple one, it's time to think about testing. When you generate an application you also get a test structure created for us. This structure lets us create unit, functional and integration tests...
  • Learning Rails - Part 2

    I wanted to make this a series about Rails and about Ruby. To that end I'm going to write a series of entries on building an MVC application. As I said in the previous post I am a Ruby and Rails neophyte, so I'll be learning as I go along, regard...
  • Learning Rails - Part 1

    I've been looking at Ruby and Rails for a long time, when I say looking at here what I really mean is staring through the glass and wondering what the fuss was about. Now that I finally have a MacBook I decided to actually sit down and learn Rails...
  • Hello and Thanks

    So, 11 years after starting at another training company (and helping to establish the UK office); two years after leaving the other company as a full time employee; about 5 years after the guys created Pluralsight; I'm finally here! So hello, and...
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