Like I wrote earlier, it’s frustrating to learn a new language when you don’t get to use it straight away. So I’ve come up with 10 creative ways that will get you started today with making big money (or fame) with your newly acquired Ruby skills
Oracle Database is a product with a distinguished past and a bright future. It boasts innovative, state-of-the-art features as well as a history that predates many modern technologies. Applications have come and gone, but the data of organizations has liv
Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all pre-configured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment. S
RadRails is an integrated development environment for the Ruby on Rails framework. The goal of this project is to provide Rails developers with everything they need to develop, manage, test and deploy their applications. Features include source control, d
Haml takes your gross, ugly templates and replaces them with veritable Haiku. Haml is the next step in generating views in your Rails application. Haml is a refreshing take that is meant to free us from the shitty templating languages we have gotten used to. Haml is based on one primary principal. Markup should be beautiful. Haml is a real solution to a real problem. Stop using the slow, repetitive, and annoying templates that you don’t even know how much you hate yet
RT stands for real time. An online chat application based on rails, very good example for heavy AJAX use. Hasn't published any sources on Rubyforge so far (22nd of Jan 06). Could become a killer app as part of a rails based groupware.
Discussion of flaws and potential solutions to using social bookmarking sites (from del.icio.us to digg) as folks monetize, abuse, trick, and tweak them: no uniform tagging conventions, flat tag structures (non-relational), overly-generalized tags (catego
I have been thinking much about Metaprogramming lately. I have come to the conclusion that I would like to see more examples and explanations of these techniques. For good or bad, metaprogramming has entered the Ruby community as the standard way of accom
Here at Ohloh we've accumulated an enormous database of open source development facts. So far, we've indexed over 3,000 projects and 220 million lines of source code. In addition, we've followed the history of these lines of code, to identify when and by
Lets imagine that you have a list view of some data which takes a long time to generate, one second or so to suck the data from the database. This is unreasonable for a site of any proportion, and you certainly don’t want to re-run query every time some
Yesterday I was glancing Douglas Bowman’s Photo gallery and a fun idea came to me. Inspired by using photo slides on a light table, Douglas employs a unified theme and feel across his gallery. Kindly he released the theme free for use and is available f
There's a lot of buzz around the Ruby on Rails framework at the moment. Something that doesn't get a lot of attention is it's scalability solution: FastCGI. Partly because it doesn't seem very exciting on first glance and partly because it's so fundamenta
When looking at my own Rails code and that of the community as a whole, I often see places where certain Rails techniques could have been used, but weren't. As much for my own memory as yours, I thought I'd list down some Rails tricks and tips that can ma
A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The answer was that I simply read alot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful:
Here's a fact of life about Rails: Deployment of a Rails application can get complicated. Fast. There are a lot of different ways to do it and everybody's situation is slightly different. This can be a total bummer because it's so damn easy to get started
free ror screencasts Rack middleware is a way to filter a request and response coming into your application. In this episode I show how to modify the response body using middleware. Resources * Rack * rack-contrib * Full Episode Source Code
The Ruby Toolbox is a comprehensive catalog of Ruby and Rails plug-ins, gems, tools and resources for Ruby developers with popularity ratings based on Github watchers and Gem downloads
RAMW-package, makes a Windows based rails installation super easy. No changes to existing Ruby/Apache/MySQL etc. installations, but check that port 80 is not blocked.
RadRails is an integrated development environment for the Ruby on Rails framework. The goal of this project is to provide Rails developers with everything they need to develop, manage, test and deploy their applications. Features include source control, d
RM-Install, powered by BitRock, is a free, multi-platform, enterprise-class Ruby on Rails stack enabling you to instantly begin developing and deploying great Rails applications without the worry of installing or maintaining the various integrated softwar
Most web applications have many more model objects exposed on the backend, or admin side, than they do on the front. Coding interfaces for all those models is redundant and a waste of resources when all you need is CRUD functionality that’s smart enough
