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
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
After listening to this weeks Ruby on Rails podcast where Geoffrey Grosenbach interviewed Bruce Tate, it got me to thinking about why Ruby on Rails appeals to me. For me as a Java person, the real appeal of Ruby lies in Rails and here’s why:
“Even for experienced developers, it can make sense to have a generic / base / bare-bones application from which to work… here are several barebones Rails apps that might provide a good base for your own template…”
About "ActionWebService: Web services on Rails" This manual describes Action Web Service, the web services support for Rails. It provides an overview of how the various components fit together, and examples for implementing your own web service APIs for R
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
This tutorial is not a rails recipe - it does not show you how to make a specific engine, but rather the steps to making an engine in general. In case you want to follow along, but don’t have a ready application to turn into an engine, I suggest creatin