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- What does a controller do? Action Controller is the C in MVC. After routing has determined which controller to use for a request, your controller is responsible for making ...
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How to use Fliqz4R
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- About Fliqz Fliqz is the leader in full-service, plug-and-play video solutions. The company offers the most flexible video solutions available online, provi...
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- For simple Ruby on Rails apps that use very few plugins, upgrading may be as simple as: rake rails:update For everyone else, there may be some work to do. Step 1: U...
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- 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. ...
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- Parameters You will probably want to access data sent in by the user or other parameters in your controller actions. There are two kinds of parameters possible in a web app...
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Learning how to Learn Rails
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- 1. Get a Mac I’m serious. If you don’t have a Mac then give up or expect lots of pain, no help or sympathy.99.9% of the Rails community are running on Macs.Almost ...
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- Opening hyperlinks the ‘Microsoft Way’ When you embed a link in a Microsoft word document, Word will use “Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery” to de...
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- The request and response objects In every controller there are two accessor methods pointing to the request and the response objects associated with the request cycle that ...
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Action Controller: Session
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- Session Your application has a session for each user in which you can store small amounts of data that will be persisted between requests. The session is only available in ...
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Using Haml
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- 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. s...
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- 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 Sign...
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Ruby Coding Convention
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- RubyCodingConvention File Names Directory and File names and Suffixes Ruby source code file/directory name is lower case class/module name with suffix ’...
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Action Controller: Rescue
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- Rescue Most likely your application is going to contain bugs or otherwise throw an exception that needs to be handled. For example, if the user follows a link to a resource...
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Action Controller: Filters
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- Filters Filters are methods that are run before, after or “around” a controller action. For example, one filter might check to see if the logged in user has the...
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- 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 create...
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- Streaming and file downloads Sometimes you may want to send a file to the user instead of rendering an HTML page. All controllers in Rails have the send_data and the send_f...
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- I’ve recently switched from using a straight up Apache mod_proxy + mongrel setup to Nginx + HaProxy +mongrel. Basically, mod_proxy is dumb as shit, and should never be use...
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Netbeans Fast Debugger for Ruby
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- How to use Netbeans FastDebugger for Ruby/Rails on Leopard/
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Getting Started With Rails
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- This guide covers getting up and running with Ruby on Rails. After reading it, you should be familiar with: Installing Rails, creating a new Rails application, and con...
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Ruby Basics - Session 5
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Uptodate on TextMate Bundles
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- How to keep uptodate on TextMate Bundles
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Ruby Idioms - Session 3
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Ruby Idioms - Session 1
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- Here is the presentation file we’ve used for Toronto Ruby on Rails Project Night yesterday. | View | Upload your own Some useful links: Railsconf 2008 in 36 minutes M...
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Ruby Basics - Session 1
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- Ruby Basics Screen CastSession 1
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Ruby Basics - Session 4
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Railsconf 2008 in 36 minutes
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- 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....
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RORB 1. Knowing your Tools
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- Ruby is an computer language to control the behavior of machines. If that doesn’t make sense maybe this scenario will. Real World Scenario If you had a giant ro...
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- IntroThere are certain products which are currently shaking the Ruby / Rails community:One of them is the infamous Phusion Passenger which makes deploying Rails applications a p...
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Ruby Keyword Arguments
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