Rails surprisingly does not include a validation method to make a model attribute immutable. (That is, the attribute can not be changed after it is set the first time.) I created this validation plugin to help that.
To install:
scr...
An introduction to haml
haml is template languages for Ruby on Rails. It’s a plugin that provides an alternative to Rails’ native view templating library erb. sass is included with haml, and provides templating for css fil...
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Intended Audience
This is a guide to assist people who:
1 Never used rails
2 Have some experience
I’m not going to cover anything technical, just give some suggestions that I think made it easier for me to learn rails....
Ruby is an computer language to control the behavior of machines.
If that doesn’t make sense maybe this scenario will.
Real World Scenario
%{font-family:verdana}If you had a giant robot that would destroy the world, yo...
Rails App Directory Structure
Its important for you to become familiar with the folders of a rails app.
Create empty Rails App
Open in Terminal and create an empty rails app
Open the new rails directroy and get look at al...
Here is my hiring process for Rails developers. This continues some thoughts I shared in a guest blog post on Ruby Inside, called 11 Tips on hiring a Rails Developer.
1. Meet developer at a Rails Pub Nite (or similar). Collect the...
About Rails session stores
Sessions allow you to store objects in memory between requests. This is useful for objects that are not yet ready to be persisted, such as a Signup object constructed in a multi-paged process, or objects tha...
The guys at Rails Envy produced a series of “public service announcements” to help users better understand some of the things they should be aware of in their Rails projects. These videos are both entertaining and informative...
Gregg Pollack conducted nineteen (!!) video interviews with Railsconf presenters. They give an overview of what they presented, and hit on the key points of what they presented.
Railsconf in 36 minutes from Gregg Pollack on Vimeo