Testimony Part II: Model evolution

[This is part II of the Testimony Rails Application Walkthrough ] Note: The Testimony app is now live. This url will always for the latest installment in this series. Before we go too much farther, we need to make a couple of adjustments to the default behaviour. The first revolves around time: ActiveRecord stores time [...]

New Series: Rails Application Walkthrough

My wife is a professional photographer with a great eye. She has a natural talent for photography that comes through in her work. Her customers love their pictures, of course, and they love to tell their friends about them. So we had the bright idea to put a page of customer testimonials up on her [...]

Who needs TextMate?

Textmate? Who needs it! You can use the One True Editor (aka GNU Emacs) for Ruby on Rails development. Spend a few minutes installing the necessary lisp files, a few quick pastes into your .emacs file, and you’re up and running, complete with those oh-so-helpful dynamic abbreviations and snippets that make TextMate a great RoR [...]

Going off the rails

Everyone knows what Ruby On Rails is, right? Well, it’s a pretty impressive framework for building web applications. It comes from those aesthetically pleasing guys who brought you Basecamp and Backpack. Anyway, I’ve been reading Agile Web Development With Rails and the things that you can do in Rails with just a few lines of [...]