We use Edge Rails in our projects. Call me stupid if you like, I like living on the edge (get it?). This desire to push our luck has bitten us a couple of times, but not in any serious way. Not until recently anyway. We use OpenID – another brand new cool technology. The combination…
Tag: Ruby On Rails
Ruby on Rails Tutorials
If you love Ruby on Rails, and you should love it then you might enjoy these tutorials on Rails Forum.
Changes to Nested Routes in Edge Rails
When I first saw nested resources in this REST paper I thought cool that makes sense. So we started using the nested resource method in our projects. Then it got a bit wierd – like why should I have to do this/1/that/2/foo/3 if I want to get to foo. Why can’t I just get to…
Review of Ozmozr code at Ruby Mountain West Conference
Jamis Buck blogged about the code review of Ozmozr he and Marcel did at the Mountain West Ruby Conference. The presentation was our favorite because of the insight it gave into our code and I think we came away as better programmers for it. Here is the link to the presentation on Conference Freaks and…
Presentations from Rails Conf
In a lot of my posts I said that I would link to the presentation. All the presentations can be found here: http://www.web2expo.com/pub/w/51/presentations.html My favorites from the current list are: Building Community-focused Apps with Rails Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up
Rails Conf after thoughts
Now that I am home and have managed to sleep a bit I have been thinking about my overall experience at Railsconf 2007. Overall it was great. It was fun to meet so many people working in Rails. The community is filled with friendly individuals who are willing to share everything they know or just…
The Rails Way Jamis Buck, Michael Koziarski
Don’t forget to look at The Rails Way blog. Move logic into your model. This lets you break functionality into more granular components and makes testing easier. Keep your controllers skinny. Jamis blogged about this principle here. Use before filters to setup state before your controller runs. Use before_create in your models. ActiveSupport helps you…
Solr on Rails Erik Hatcher
Ferret is fast. He has moved around and the documentation is a bit sparse. Solr was created by people at CNET, used by Internet Archive, Krugle, Revolution Health, his projects: Collext, Blacklight. Findability – serendipity is great. You should be able to browse and discover stuff you didn’t intend to. Read Ambient Findability Lucene is…
Practical Design for Developers David Verba
Practical Design for Developers David Verba Another standing room only session. Perhaps the organizers will wise up and have at least on larger room next year for the sessions that are very popular. We are going over the basics of audience analysis – understand your users: Context Motivations Challenges Know your stakeholders – anyone that…
Taking Care of Rails Support Tasks Through Custom Daemons Tammer Saleh
Saleh is talking about using a Daemon to get rails to talk to LDAP. The code for the LDAP deamon and the code to make it look like a model live here. I will add a bit of code here and there, but hopefully the presenter will upload the slides so I don’t have to…