Databases & Rails: Week 5 Controllers
We’ve covered models, views, routing, and briefly introduced controllers. This week we’re taking the deep dive into controllers, talking about what they can do, and how we want to use them. Last week...
View ArticleDatabases & Rails: Week 6 Data Visualization with Javascript
When most people think of great web sites they don’t think of borring pages that have to refresh every time you click something, they think of sites filled with dynamic like buttons, and moving charts...
View ArticleActive Record Deep Dive
If you’re new to Rails and Active Record, or you’ve been using them for some time, there are likely methods you’ve been overlooking. This week I take a look at the most common SQL Query interfaces for...
View ArticleGet Previously Saved Changes in Rails
Some times you need to see what fields changed in an object in Rails. I’ve known for awhile that you could do this before an object saved:user = User.last user.name = "schneems" puts user.name_changed?...
View ArticleDatabases & Rails: Week 8
Welcome back, this week we’re going to tackle some important concepts in Ruby like Dealing with Nil and using Modules in Ruby. We are also going to cover importing data from a spreadsheet, rake,...
View ArticleDatabase & Rails: Week 9
We are close to wrapping up our 10 week Rails Course. This week we will cover a handful of topics commonly encountered in Rails projects. We then wrap up with part 2 of our Reddit on Rails exercise!By...
View Articleraise "hell": Better Programming Through Error Messages
Exceptions suck. When you are getting started on a project there is nothing worse than clicking that button, hitting enter, and then watching your software fall flat on its face. It might sound odd -...
View ArticleSunsetting and Deprecation at Heroku
Software erosion is what happens to your app without your knowledge or consent: it was working at one point, and then doesn’t work anymore. When this happens you have to invest energy diagnosing and...
View ArticleHeroku Sunsets the Argent Aspen Stack
Heroku Sunsets the Argent Aspen Stack : I wrote some words on Heroku’s past and it’s future.
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Would you like a Mobile App with That?
From Android to iPhone, users everywhere have made it abundantly clear that mobile apps are the future, and when it comes to mobile nothing beats a native experience. Native apps mean we need API’s,...
View ArticleEmbed Gists into a Markdown File
Have you ever wanted to convert all the code blocks in a markdown file to embedded gists?Well now you can! Embed gists into markdown by copying this script into a new file, and run it with the name of...
View Articlethe boots in the corner: Hire junior devs!
the boots in the corner: Hire junior devs!: amydoesntlai:To employers:Hire junior devs!I am writing this not because it is self-serving — at least, not entirely because it is self-serving — but because...
View ArticleTry mruby Today
Ruby dominates the web: running popular sites like Github, Heroku, and Living Social. But why should web developers get to have all the fun? Wouldn’t it be great if game developers, embedded systems...
View ArticleReddit on Rails part 3: Last week of UT on Rails
I’m finally wrapping up my UT on Rails series. While people have been getting close to the end of the course, I’ve gotten the question “Now what?” plenty of times. Now that you’ve spent 40+ hours...
View ArticleRuby 2.0 Preview Available on Heroku
When Heroku first launched you could only use one version of Ruby: 1.8.6. As the Ruby implementation matured and improved, so did Heroku. We recently announced the ability to specify your ruby version...
View ArticleHacking mruby onto Heroku
If you’re in the Ruby world, you’ve likely heard about mruby, Matz’s latest experimental Ruby implementation. What I bet you didn’t know is that you can run mruby on Heroku right now. As a matter of...
View ArticleCustom Wizard URLs in Rails with Wicked
I wrote this wizard controller library that people seem to really dig called Wicked. It works well to build after signup wizards and to incrementally build objects for the database but there is one...
View ArticleHi there, I wonder what do you think about MongoDB and Mongoid? I'm confused...
Stick with what you know unless you have a good reason for using something else. I have a video on nosql that may or may not help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL-A4JYwgH4
View ArticleJRuby Support Live on Heroku
I’ve been quite lately, thats because we’ve been working on something amazing over at Heroku. So check out:Run JRuby on Heroku Right NowMove and Existing Rails app to use JRubyI had a ton of fun...
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