RoR for newbies, Weblog on wide range of beginner, intermediate, and advanced topics; by Geoffrey Grosenbach, host of official RoR Podcast, ...
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Figure A Fox tall and fox small In the past few months, I’ve been on the receiving end of several conversations to the effect of “Why do you use the word ‘bacon’ in some of your code examples? Are you a flaming anti-vegan, or just a pork lobbyist?” I learned Ruby from the classic Why’...
“You should spend at least half of your time in the ‘test’ directory.” — Jeremy Voorhis “Quit looking at your web browser!” — Eric Hodel Web development without a browser? My development process has recently been supercharged by autotest, a part of the ZenTest package that you can dow...
All good points, and I usually follow most of these myself (but you have to know when you break the rules too). I agree syntax highlighting makes code easier to read, but I’ll usually skip the syntax highlighting in favor of using color to call attention to important features in the c...
I’ll add to this and say that every beginning Rails developer should write their own blog software. It’s a great learning experience and you can try things that aren’t possible with just an app running on localhost. It’s also a great environment for learning without the pressure of a ...
# Use the generator to make a transmogrifier plugin ./script/generate plugin transmogrifier create vendor/plugins/transmogrifier/lib create vendor/plugins/transmogrifier/tasks create vendor/plugins/transmogrifier/test create vendor/plugins/transmogrifier/README create vendor/plugins/t...
One skill that is important is being able to respond to change. I frequently think back to a quote I saw in a skateboarding video from a few years ago where photographer Grant Brittain talked about the changes he had seen in the sport and business of skateboarding over the past 30 yea...
