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Rails Rescue Handbook, an ebook by Mike Gunderloy

ivanoats — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:34:28 +0000

Rails is a powerful development tool for web applications - but that power can lead inexperienced developers astray. If you're working on a Rails project gone bad, the targeted advice in this ebook will get you back on track quickly.

Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example | by Michael Hartl

ivanoats — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:31:50 +0000

Rails Tutorial contains integrated tutorials not only for Rails, but also for the underlying Ruby language,4 as well as for HTML, CSS, some JavaScript, and even a little SQL. This means that, no matter where you currently are in your knowledge of web development, by the time you finish this tutorial you will be ready for more advanced Rails resources, as well as for the more systematic treatments of the other subjects mentioned. A book-in-progress—drafts currently available for chapters 1–7.

The Pragmatic Programmer

ivanoats — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:23:23 +0000

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt

My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A little dated if you’re using a framework like Ruby on Rails, but definitely worth reviewing and further study. Lots of great practices. I feel like this book gives you the foundational understanding to what inspired many current Ruby on Rails practices.

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Render error when upgrading from rails 1 to rails 2

Ivan Storck — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:04:57 +0000

When upgrading an old ruby on rails 1.2 application to rails 2.2.2, I ran into a frustrating, somewhat un-google-able error, so I’m writing down the solution here.

If you get a render with invalid options error, the solution is to uninstall the textmate footnotes plugin, and use the rails-footnotes plugin instead.

Thanks to David Zohrob’s blog post for helping me figure this out.

Ruby on Rails MySQL Admin

Ivan Storck — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:12:30 +0000

This is about to kick phpMyAdmin’s ass:

rbDB web-based mysql admin with conventions from Jessy Bernal on Vimeo.

UPDATE: it’s on GitHub now! Try it out!

Screen Scraping with Ruby

ivanoats — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:19:15 +0000

Useful short presentation explaining regular expressions, xpath, firebug, hpricot and screen scraping

Open Source Rails

ivanoats — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:34:31 +0000

Open Source Rails features an easy to browse gallery of the best open source / freely available rails projects. Each project features screenshots plus community driven comments, ratings, and bookmarking. If you have a Rails project that you're considering to release to the community, please let us know and we'll help you get featured, and hopefully build up a community to help build and extend your project.

zena

ivanoats — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:29:14 +0000

zena is a state-of-the-art CMS (content managment system) based on Ruby on Rails with a focus on usability, ease of customization and web 2.0 goodness (application like behaviour).

Ruby on Rails SEO Tips

ivanoats — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:40:47 +0000

Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist – Articles – Matthew Moore

ivanoats — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:35:32 +0000

In Matt Moore's experience, Ruby and Ruby on Rails has been one of the most difficult language/framework combinations to truly master. For someone who grew up on C, C++ & Java in the majority of their training, Ruby has hugely different (and better!) ways of OO design, and the Rails framework has a lot of opinions to be understood and remembered. As long as it's taken to master them to the level he has - and he's sure there's still a long way to go - he loves it and won't be going back.