Would you believe this is my third attempt at writing this piece? The last two were waaaay too long (there’s just so much to cover!) Well let’s start with a few stand-out thoughts on Ruby: Ruby is an object of beauty –> inspired & passionate developers It’s elegant and concise –> a joy to work …
If, like me, you don’t like reading on screens that flicker (LCDs – which give you eye fatigue!) then you’ll be pleased to know I have converted The Little Book On CoffeeScript to .mobi format for use on your Kindle. Just download and copy to your Kindle – it’s that easy!
This is an answerback to the recent ‘What the hell is happening to rails?’ post by Steve Coast. He says Rails has become too hard/advanced for beginners, and recommends they ditch learning Rails 3 and go with an older version: If you want to learn rails, don’t get the latest pragmatic programmers book. Go and …
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Saw this mentioned on Stack Exchange earlier (via @ryanbigg) and as it was a post I was going to be doing anyway (to accompany a forthcoming feature, ‘Best way to learn Ruby & Rails) I thought I’d go ahead and do it now. Ok lets get started… but first it should go without saying that …
Looking for some of the best TextMate themes for Ruby on Rails? Well look no further as I’ve done all the hard work for you and have compiled a list of some of the most popular themes 🙂
There are many reasons why Rails is special, but in order to keep things fairly short, relaxed and n00b friendly, I won’t delve too deeply into the mechanics. Instead I’ll cover the things that first drew me to the framework… and subsequently got me hooked! The best technologies One of the biggest draws to Rails …
