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Tag Archives: ruby
Building Sinatra apps with Dropbox-SDK
When I was building my Makdown Journal app I have noticed that there were no good tutorials showing you how to use the official Dropbox-SDK Gem with the Sinatra framework. Granted, this is not necessarily an issue if you know … Continue reading
Revisiting Private Journaling
A while ago I wrote about my search for a good private journaling solution. Since then I have tried dozens of different apps and services without finding anything I would like. At one point I even wrote my own little … Continue reading
Rails 2.0 on Ubuntu Gutsy
I must confess that Rails makes me feel stupid every time I use it. The accepted truism about the framework is that it boosts your productivity like no other. Unfortunately people forget to tell you that there is second part … Continue reading
Starting a Rails 2.0 Project
Since Rails 2.0 fucked up just about every single online tutorial out there by removing the scaffold method, I decided to document a step by step process of starting a brand new project. I think it’s important because the approach … Continue reading
What happened to scaffold in Rails 2.x?
Rant time! This one may or may not ruffle some feathers, but frankly I don’t care. I’m probably late to this party and missed out on all the big flame wars seeing how 2.0 was released at the beginning of … Continue reading
Aptana – First Impression
Yesterday I spent some time talking to some dudes running a computer security company in NYC. They have used Ruby on Rails for one of their recent projects, and they were raving about it like madmen. I literally couldn’t make … Continue reading
Ruby on Rails doesn’t Scale Well
Ruby is a really great language with some awesome features, and Rails make it even better. But it appears that it does not scale well yet. Twitter is a great example of using RoR to run a website with millions … Continue reading
Rails: #28000Access denied
I’m continuing to mess around with Ruby on Rails on WinXP. I just ran into another problem that took me over an hour to figure out. I set up a database in MySQL, configured my database.yml file, created a model … Continue reading
Strange WEBrick Error
I was messing around with ruby on my Windows box and for some reason WEBrick kept crashing on me with the following output: ruby script/server => Booting WEBrick… => Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call … Continue reading
Learning Ruby (Part 1)
I’m trying to teach myself Ruby so I figured that I will teach you about it as I go along. This will help me to review what I already know. They say the best way to understand a topic is … Continue reading
Ruby
I installed Ruby the other day, and configured Rails. Now I’m fucking around with it trying to figure it all out. The language itself reminds me of Python but it has it’s own flow to it, that is quite unlike … Continue reading
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