This is more a handy reference for myself, but it also acts as a very quick intro to why git is awesome and well worth using. The main difference here is I remind you what the state of your working directory is as you make changes (as this was what confused me previously – as […]
I’m fairly certain I am using them a little unconventionally, and just wondered – am I alone? Before going on I will add that I’m able to use them this way because a) the app is still in development, and b) I am the only developer.
It seems fashionable to knock Rails as beginner unfriendly these days, but I think that’s wholly unfair – because I found Rails *much* easier to learn, and a better option for web development than most (if not all) of the other ‘options’ (some I tried, some I researched and rejected). Easier because Rails is written
While Rails does a lot to secure your app, some things it leaves to you (as one size doesn’t fit all) and mass assignment security (MAS) is one such example. Rails does of course, make it easy for you to bolt things up, here’s how. When will you need MAS? Whenever you are accepting data
This is the sequel to my Best way to learn Ruby & Rails post, if you’re new (or fairly new) to Ruby or Rails, read that first. In this post we look at books that help to get you from intermediate level to pro, although you’ll have to bear with me as this is currently
Having read a lot of programming books recently, one publisher has quickly become a firm favourite; The Pragmatic Bookshelf (AKA The Pragmatic Programmers.)
This post is part of my series on Clean Lion install for Ruby Development. Next we’ll set up our fresh dev enviroment for Ruby. Here we’ll cover installing and setting up: GCC (or Xcode) Homebrew Xcode Rbenv or RVM Ruby 2.1.3 Rubygems Rails POW – Optional MySQL & Unix set-up
I know there’s a few of these posts around, but I wanted to do one purely for my own notes if nothing else. Particularly as I will be setting things up a little differently (partly because I have just installed a SSD and will be using more than one drive and…) because some of the
That’s no typo, I really did mean Ruby and Rails – but before you run off (those looking to learn only Rails) read on… I started off wanting to learn just Rails too, but I quickly realised two things: Rails will only get you so far – to be anything close to a Rails ninja,
….and why it will be. RailsCasts.com has been going almost as long as Rails itself – and it’s always been free. Ryan’s produced almost 300 quality screencasts, and if you average them out to 10 minutes each, that’s about 50 hours of footage!
